Publication Authors: Kirsimarja Blomqvist

Anna-Maija Nisula, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Henri Hussinki, Aino Kianto

The objective of this study is to advance understanding on the future knowledge management research directions through collective academic creativity. Specifically, drawing from collective creativity research and futures research, we developed an online workshop method and implemented it among Knowledge Management Team members at Lappeenranta Lahti University of Technology (LUT University). While the online workshop […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
901-913
Anna-Maija Nisula, Kirsimarja Blomqvist

The goal of this study is to advance understanding on project resilience by shedding light on resilience practices in a project that is understood as a temporary organization. While doing so, we investigated one specific collaborative and knowledge intensive innovation project, in which knowledge integration is at central core for project outcomes. Temporary innovation projects […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2022 – Knowledge Drivers for Resilience and Transformation
829-841
Anna-Maija Nisula, Kirsimarja Blomqvist

The present study investigates individual improvisation and perceived other person’s affective passion and cognitive passion as predictors of short-lived co-creation in a dyad. The study takes a quantitative survey research strategy. Suggested research model was tested utilising SEM-PLS analysis with the dataset comprising 336 respondents. The data were collected from twelve co-creative events during 2017-2019, […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2020 – Knowledge in Digital Age
1309-1317
Anna-Maija Nisula, Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Jukka-Pekka Bergman

The present study explores organizing knowledge co-creation for radical innovation within knowledge ecosystem. Building on research on knowledge creation, innovation, and organizing, the study at hand understands knowledge co-creation as central basis for organizing and source of interdependence. Study sheds light on temporary and emergent organizing of knowledge co-creation within knowledge ecosystem. The findings of […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2019 – Knowledge Ecosystems and Growth
727-738
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
Anna-Maija Nisula, Kirsimarja Blomqvist

This paper studies the antecedents of individual improvisation in the ad-hoc coimprovisation context. The paper explores how the intra-personal factors self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation, and the inter-individual or other-focused psychological factor of positive affect are related with individual improvisation in ad hoc co-improvisation event. This is important for two reasons. First, improvisation is an increasingly […]

IN: Proceedings IFKAD 2014 – Knowledge and Management Models for Sustainable Growth
865-885