Publication Authors: Heidi Olander

Anna-Maija Nisula, Ilona Toth, Heidi Olander

Knowledge workers are central actors for organizational performance and also widely in societies. Specifically, they are central sources, producers and orchestrators of knowledge, in which work creativity plays an important role. The goal of this paper is to shed light on determinants of knowledge worker creativity. We investigate resilience and self-efficacy as predictors of knowledge […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2023 – Managing Knowledge for Sustainability
1723-1734
Anna-Maija Nisula, Heidi Olander

The purpose of the present paper is to investigate and shed light on individual factors affecting the resilience and creativity of knowledge workers (KWs). We propose a theoretical model concerning the relation of the entrepreneurial motivations of achievement and materialism, general self-efficacy and an internal locus of control with resilience and creativity. The proposed model […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2017 – Knowledge Management in the 21st Century: Resilience, Creativity and Co-creation
503-517
Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Heidi Olander

Purpose – We explore how experts involved in virtually organized complex problem solving balance between sharing and protecting tacit knowledge. Complex problem solving requires that multiple experts with specialized knowledge share and combine their tacit knowledge for co-created solutions. However, the personal, complex, and hard to codify nature of tacit knowledge as well as the […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2015 – Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Connecting the Knowledge Dots
632-648