The purpose of this paper is to analyse the transition phenomenon from smart organizations toward wise organizations based on changing the paradigm of decision making from economic to sustainability criteria. Classical business education was focused on profit maximization principle, and business strategies were designed to meet that objective. Michael Porter changed the strategic thinking paradigm […]
This paper aims to explore how researchers studied the role and implications of the concepts of vulnerability and risk in direct relation to knowledge management systems. Our approach is based on a bibliometric analysis of the papers in the last 20 years and indexed in Scopus using the specialized software VOSviewer. Although knowledge risks have […]
The purpose of this paper is to explore the complexity of designing knowledge ecosystems for business education based on the theory of knowledge fields and knowledge dynamics. That means to change the paradigm of university education based on the traditional rigid curriculum into a new paradigm based on adequate knowledge ecosystems. The new paradigm reflects […]
The purpose of this paper is to propose an enlarged framework for defining and evaluating knowledge risk, by changing the paradigm of cognitive knowledge with that of the multifield theory of knowledge. So far, knowledge risk has been considered only from the perspective of explicit knowledge (i.e. rational knowledge) and tacit knowledge (i.e. experience). However, […]
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new paradigm for innovation, based on the multifield theory of organizational knowledge and on the entropic model of the organizational intellectual capital. In this new perspective, organizational culture is one of the nonlinear integrators that contributes directly to the transformation of the potential innovation […]
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new paradigm for knowledge structure and understanding, based on the triple helix metaphor. This new perspective departures from the known-unknown paradigm based on the iceberg metaphor of explicit and tacit knowledge. Also, we would like to demonstrate the power of the new paradigm in […]