Strengthening Professional Experience for Increasing Performance Of Pekalongan Batik Tulis SMEs

This study aims to strengthen the professional experience of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Batik Tulis Pekalongan to improve their performance. Sharing knowledge related to professional experience between businesses at small and medium levels becomes difficult because SME actors have the view that sharing knowledge will create new competitors. 100 questionnaires were distributed through surveyors directly to the owners or leaders of SMEs Batik Tulis in Pekalongan Regency. The results discovered that if an SME group contributes their knowledge, the total professional experience will increase, meaning that the increase in professional experience is built by contributing knowledge with indicators of being happy to share knowledge and experience, being willing to provide training to share expertise and being open to sharing knowledge, experience and expertise. When groups of small and medium-sized business actors collect knowledge, their collective professional experience will increase. Keywords: knowledge sharing, knowledge donating, knowledge collecting, professional experienceand performance of SME

Knowledge management, absorptive capacity and organisational culture: A case study from Chinese SMEs

Copyright © 2008 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below.Based on the analysis of an innovative medium sized enterprise from mainland China, this paper investigated the Knowledge Management (KM) issues by focusing on its KM enablers and process. This paper attempts to investigate how Chinese enterprises absorb knowledge from external sources; how they developed culture to facilitate Knowledge Management Processes (KMPs) and what major challenges they raise for the future by looking at the case study of a Chinese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The case study indicates that Chinese enterprises emphasised knowledge acquisition and the capacities of knowledge absorption, application, creation, sharing and integration as vital to sustaining competitive advantage for these firms. Corporative organisational culture also has significant impact on the KM in those enterprises

Knowledge Management System for Cluster Development in Small and Medium Enterprises

Many countries such as Canada, Japan, Korea and France gains their competitive advantage through the utilization of clusters development. A cluster contains many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating in the same or similar industry strongly connected with each other to produce good and services.,In developing country , especially, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) take very important role to their economic. Most governments, as facilitator, support cluster through initiate help and encourage SMEs' linkage to reach the concept of industry cluster. Many literature reviewed claimed that the most difficult processes in creating a cluster is the development and sustain the collaboration to connect these SMEs together. After some investigation, the problem of creating SMEs connection is information sharing at micro-economic level.. Knowledge sharing is one of the most important key success factors of cluster management to gain collaboration among SMEs since there are abundant of explicit and tacit knowledge within each SMEs in a cluster. Naturally, most firms do not want to share their business information and knowledge. In reality, however they needs these information to successfully manage their business cluster. It is crucial and necessary we find out what kind of information or knowledge they want to know and shareable among them in order to manage cluster successfully. Many operation management techniques already existed in many firms. One of the ways to help knowledge sharing operate successfully using information technology as a tool is directed to Knowledge Management System (KMS). This methods can help facilitate the communication and information flow and needs to be investigated further to help maintain the cluster collaboration and knowledge sharing.. This paper propose framework and methodology for analyzing, industry cluster for the sustain the lifecycle of cluster.

Knowledge Sharing, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Capabilities: An Empirical Study on Small and Medium Enterprises in North Sulawesi, Indonesia

The capability of a firm to instill innovation depends on its knowledge resources. This capability can be utilized by facilitating knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity in the context of small and medium enterprises. The purpose of this research is to examine how knowledge sharing can be transformed into innovation capabilities. Research suggests that knowledge sharing will first influence absorptive capacity before knowledge can be transformed to innovation capabilities. This research was conducted in North Sulawesi which has excellent economic growth by involving small and medium enterprises. The results show that knowledge donating and knowledge collecting positively influence SME’s innovation capabilities if absorptive capacity is also developed. In other words, the result of the research gives us empirical evidence that new knowledge created from knowledge sharing can be transformed into innovation capabilities if it is supported by higher absorptive capacity

HUMAN RESOURCES KNOWLEDGE SHARING PORTAL FOR TRAINING & PEOPLE CAPABILITY UNIT

The importance of knowledge sharing has been long recognized by different functions of Human Resources department in facilitating the knowledge transfer needed to reduce knowledge gap among staffs. An effective medium to share knowledge, be they in tacit or explicit forms is believed will help to help staffs to communicate and collaborate in getting the knowledge they need to perform their jobs well as these workers need to have access to vast amount of knowledge resided in documents and brains which they do not possess. This paper discussed the need of implementing a Human Resources Knowledge Sharing Portal for Training & People Capability unit, to address the problem mentioned. The portal is aimed to act as an effective sharing medium for the unit’s staffs to share work-related documents and knowledge which will be very useful to boost the unit’s productivity. This portal will also act as the stepping stone in cultivating the knowledge sharing culture within the organization for the organization’s betterment in the future

Knowledge Sharing in Emerging Economies

One of the new factors in Eastern European countries (and there is an acknowledgement that this aspect is inherent in other countries too) is this concept of freely sharing information i.e. the concept of what is known in KM literature of “Knowledge Sharing”. Sharing only takes place where there is trust and where there is a shared feeling of ownership of goals. The reasons behind the tendency to share are based on the kind of interpersonal relations between co- workers inherent within the organization and the effects of social relationships within organizational teams. Strengthening the social relationships between individuals in the team is crucial in motivating team members to share knowledge. New research is currently investigating the concept of “sharing social relationships” and one of the aims of the project is to investigate the barriers to sharing information in a particular type of business - that of the small to medium sized enterprises (the SME) in order to form a comparative study. The results of the study will be used to from a model of “information sharing best practice” for SME who are setting up or using KM systems. The work will examine the barriers to sharing in two newly emerging economies (Poland and Hungary) and one relatively established economy (the UK). At the time of writing the work with Poland and Hungary has been completed and this paper gives the initial results from the Hungarian study

The Effect of Knowledge Sharing and Absorptive Capacity on Service Innovation Performance: A Study of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Tarakan City

This research was conducted on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tarakan City. To improve service innovation, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tarakan City need knowledge sharing and absorption activities. This research was conducted on 150 workers in small, micro, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tarakan City. Data collection was carried out using a survey method with a questionnaire. Survey responses submitted by respondents in this study indicate that knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity activities positively affect service innovation performance in micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Tarakan City. &nbsp

Sharing Knowledge in China: Experiences in an SME

In this article, we explore the experiences of a medium sized media relations firm based in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu as it sought to establish a knowledge sharing culture. Building off existing initiatives involving online communication, as well as an espoused enthusiasm for sharing knowledge, we describe how we have started working with this firm as it seeks to develop a key knowledge sharing competence

Knowledge sharing as a catalyst for enhanced performance in micro, small and medium enterprises (msmes) in Migori county, Kenya

In the last decade the role of knowledge sharing in business organizations has been emphasized by practitioners, academics and entrepreneurs. Ironically, most of these studies have focused on large organizations, yet others have predominantly focused on secondary literature of past studies for their findings. In addition, some studies have focused on particular aspects like tacit knowledge or explicit knowledge without giving a clue on the relationship to performance using both. This study sought to find out the effect of knowledge sharing on organizational performance with particular reference to MSMEs, thereby filling the gap on small organizations. The study was also empirical and addressed both tacit and explicit forms of knowledge. The study was conducted by cross sectional survey, data being collected using questionnaire and structured interview responses from a sample of 46 owner and 110 employed managers of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises randomly selected from the accessible population using stratified random sampling technique. Findings revealed that knowledge sharing indeed had a significantly positive effect on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Migori County, Kenya. The study recommends that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises be encouraged to facilitate implementation of knowledge sharing so as to realize significant improvements in their performance