The purpose of this paper is to present the framework and research design of a two-year European Social Fund project which aims to improve the abilities of logistics SMEs in Kymenlaakso region to utilize knowledge management tools and practices for improving management and organizing of work. The paper describes the rationale, activities and expected outputs […]
This study aims at furthering this discussion by empirically examining on how the firm’s knowledge-base (i.e. intellectual capital) and the abilities to utilize and develop it (i.e. knowledge management) are associated with firm performance outcomes. In particular, the purpose is to examine firms with different profiles concerning their overall levels of IC and the KM […]
Purpose – Organizational performance is increasingly grounded on knowledge-related issues. The seminal academic discussions addressing this phenomenon revolve around the concept of Intellectual Capital (IC) (e.g. Edvinsson & Malone, 1997; Sullivan, 1998). IC is typically divided to human, structural and relational capital assets possessed by an organization (e.g. Bontis, 2001; Guthrie, 2001). We expand this […]