Numerous articles demonstrate how supply chain models have evolved, affecting their organisational configurations, goals, and natural relationships between suppliers and customers. Today’s supply chain is a multi-objective system traversed by numerous resource flows, but the behaviour of knowledge flow within the supply chain is not entirely understood. Numerous previous contributions have concentrated exclusively on relationships […]
The effect of digital transition on today’s knowledge creation processes is becoming relevant for companies operating in different industries, and the body of literature examining this impact is fastly growing. Nevertheless, systematizing existing studies on digital technologies supporting the firm’s knowledge creation processes to reconceptualise existing knowledge management models and paradigms is still a challenge. […]
This paper proposes a decision-making tool for both supply firms and policy makers to evaluate the alignment between supplier’s knowledge and knowledge management systems (KMSs), and identify the level of efficiency and effectiveness of KMSs. Starting from these indices of efficiency and effectiveness, a taxonomy able to encompass the possible typologies of suppliers was established. […]
This paper evaluates the alignment between firm’s knowledge and knowledge management tools and practices adopted and provides a decision-making tool for both SMEs and policy makers. A field analysis was conducted in a sample of sixty-one small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in high tech industries. The results identify a taxonomy of different typologies of […]
This paper provides a taxonomy of knowledge management systems (KMSs) in small supply firms and identifies relevant tools and practices supporting firms in the different phases of knowledge management process. Based on a field analysis that involved 61 small suppliers operating in high-tech industries, the paper highlights that suppliers are generally inclined to use not […]
Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to provide a taxonomy of knowledge management systems and investigate the alignment between the intensity of use of relevant tools and practices supporting small and medium enterprises in the process of knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review on knowledge management […]
Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of knowledge management in the development of virtual networks participated by small firms. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews two streams of literature focused on knowledge management in small firms and virtual enterprise. This allows to define an appropriate research question that has […]
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive research review on knowledge management in small and medium enterprises in order to identify gaps in the body of literature. By connecting these gaps to business future trends we identify several future research avenues for each research area. Design/methodology/approach – The main objective […]