Designing a training and development policy: a knowledge creation perspective.

This study presents a training and development policy which facilitates the creation and sharing of new knowledge. The policy is based upon the principle of generating redundancies, related to core competences. At a first level, training is focused towards basic functional knowledge. At the second level, the programs are oriented towards improvement of the process system by stimulating internal process redundancies. The purpose of the training at the third level is to open the system and to facilitate innovation by developing external functional redundancies. The sharing of tacit knowledge is stimulated by emphasizing externalization and learning by doing.Knowledge;

Analysis of Intervening Variables of New Product Performance affected Tacit Knowledge and Strategic Flexibility

Objectives: Global Innovation Index revealed that the innovation performance of Indonesia is relatively poor compared to several ASEAN countries. The lowest indicator of innovation performance is related to business sophistication. In business activities, some experts identify innovation as the key factor in company competitiveness. The author plans to analyze product innovation, innovation processes, and organizational innovations as intervening variables.Methodology: This study is causal research with a 95%  confidence interval in collecting and constructing data structures to evaluate the cause-and-effect relationship of the variables. The primary data was obtained through a survey of 90 small-scale leather apparel companies in Indonesia. Subsequently, the data was analyzed using a structural equation model and multiple.Finding: Compared to the previous studies, the results of this study indicated a novelty, product innovation, and process innovation can be intervening variables if there is strategic flexibility as exogenous variables and new product performance. To improve new product performance, every leather apparel industry in Indonesia must first increase tacit knowledge, strategic flexibility, product innovation, and process innovation.Conclusion: Based on the findings, the researcher suggests further research to examine the path analysis research framework are exogenous variables (strategic flexibility and tacit knowledge), endogenous variables (organizational innovation and new product performance), and intervening variables (product innovation and process innovation)

Role of Knowledge Sharing and Employee Engagement Towards Innovative Performance with Learning Orientation as Moderating Variable

In this study, the authors will analyze the performance of innovation through knowledge sharing, and employee work involvement moderated by learning orientation variables. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which innovation performance can be obtained through knowledge sharing, work involvement, and moderation of learning orientation that develops in the process of holding state-owned companies in the banking sector. One of them is the existence of an interesting holding process between PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Tbk. (Bank BRI), PT Permodalan Nasional Madani (PNM), and PT Pegadaian, where PT Pegadaian can be considered a non-banking sector service. Thus, knowledge sharing and employee involvement, in this case, will be analyzed using learning orientation as a moderating variable. This type of research is explanatory research with a cross-sectional design and data collection using primary data in the form of data collection questionnaires distributed to employees of Bank BRI. The sample of this research is 213 respondents and will be analyzed using SEM-PLS 3.0. The results of this study indicate that knowledge sharing has a significant effect on innovation performance, employee involvement has a significant effect on innovation performance, and the results of learning orientation are able to significantly moderate knowledge sharing on innovation performance. However, learning orientation cannot moderate and is not significant between employee engagement and innovation performance

The Effects of Knowledge Spillovers, Incubators and Accelerator Programmes on the Product Innovation of High-Tech Start-Ups: A Mixed Methods Approach

The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship (KTSE) focuses on exploring how entrepreneurs use uncommercialised knowledge spillovers into funding a new venture. This phenomenon explores the role of geographical proximity on the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities that result in the creation of start-ups that promote the evaluation of the economic growth in regions. However, the definition of knowledge spillovers and the mechanisms measurements to evaluate high-tech entrepreneurs during the first years of operation continues to be an elusive research area in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. This doctoral thesis seeks to shed light on the effects of knowledge spillovers, incubators, and accelerators on high-tech start-ups performance and survival. Knowledge Spillovers research focuses on the effects of economics and the characteristics of countries on start-ups. However, there is a clear gap in stating a definition of knowledge spillovers and taxonomy with other disciplines. Research so far assumes that entrepreneurs automatically absorb knowledge spillovers. This work takes a different approach by identifying the processes, mechanisms and companies that facilitate using knowledge spillovers towards innovation. The doctoral research focused on obtaining primary data from entrepreneurs at the individual level. The study conducted a sequential mixed method exploratory design to empirically develop a model that identifies the types of knowledge spillovers used by companies at the seed and growth stages. A qualitative phase conducted a multiple-case study approach involving 32 semi-structured interviews with chief executive officers and co-founders of high-tech start-ups that attended incubator and accelerator programmes in Greater London, United Kingdom. The resultant conceptual model identified the start-up's strategic decisions to form alliances and partnerships through accelerator programmes, incubators and networking events. The results also suggest that entrepreneurs are likely to allocate Research and Development (R&D) budgets to hire human capital and invest in training to implement information technologies that allow them to overcome geographical proximity and engage in product innovation. The qualitative phase's objective was to identify the mechanisms, processes, definitions of knowledge spillovers, and to guide factor analysis to generalise the findings. The qualitative findings guided the development of incoming and network knowledge spillovers formative constructs that evaluate alliances with organisations and information sources. The results led to quantitative models' development to evaluate the start-up's absorptive capacity and product innovation. The quantitative phase conducted a validation and generalisation of the qualitative model using factor analysis from a sample of 556 founders of high and medium-tech start-ups operating in the United Kingdom. The findings highlighted that tacit and explicit knowledge spillovers positively affect the company's creation during the process of potential absorptive capacity. The results suggested that the entrepreneur valuation of the business idea based on their experience, or by conducting market research through interviews, surveys, and asking experts in the field. The entrepreneurial journey is supported by incubators or accelerator programmes through networking events and the provision of headquarters. The activities undertaken in these programmes provide access to investment from venture capitalists, and headquarters for start-ups to run their operations. This process leads to the development of alliances and partnerships that enable access to knowledge spillovers. Entrepreneurs wound to take the managerial decisions to hire highly skilled human capital and incorporate technological tools and conduct R&D. Furthermore, the model three variant of KST-QNCM proves that the founder's start-ups type of industry's background and academic qualifications influence start-ups operations and objectives. The research's main contribution to knowledge is the developed Knowledge Spillovers model of High-Tech Start-ups (KMS-HTS). The model states propositions and the statistical effects from constructs and variables during the phases of identifying the business idea and creation of the company, establishment and development, and scaling up and the company's future. The model provides a clear description of entrepreneurs' processes and mechanisms to implement knowledge spillovers towards innovation. The model also provides a taxonomy and sources of knowledge under the classification of network and incoming knowledge spillovers that can be implemented in disciplines not linked to economic and econometric models. The thesis provides strong empirical evidence on different approaches taken by entrepreneurs based on the type of industry. The model revealed that high-technology start-ups follow a unidirectional process of absorption and implementation of knowledge spillovers to develop new products through exploratory innovation. Thus, high-tech start-ups become potential sources of knowledge spillovers for entrepreneurs and companies through R&D that generate research outputs, patents, and academic publications. On the other hand, Medium-high technology and knowledge-intensive companies aim to engage in a product development cycle focused on developing a product prototype from existing technology to participate in local and international markets. Under this category, companies can engage in exploratory or exploitative innovation by using information technologies to acquire additional knowledge spillovers

The Role of Knowledge Sharing, Job Involment and Individual Innovation Capability on Employee Performance at PT. Bhirowo Jaya Mojokerto

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine how individual innovation capability, job involvement, and knowledge sharing affect employee performance. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire with 65 employees of PT. Birowo Jaya as respondents provided the primary data for this investigation. Purposive sampling was the method of sampling employed in this investigation. Using route analysis, validate this research. Findings: The study's findings indicate that: (1) knowledge sharing positively impacts employee performance; (2) individual innovation capability positively impacts employee performance; (3) job involvement positively impacts employee performance; and (4) knowledge sharing, individual innovation capability, and job involvement positively impact employee performance simultaneously. Paper type: Research pape

The role of knowledge management on learning organization capacity and job performance

In the digital era, knowledge becomes the main asset to win the competition. However, the management of knowledge that is less than optimal makes the targets set by the company's management cannot be achieved. This indicates that HR performance in utilizing Knowledge Management is still not optimal. This study aims to examine and analyze the influence of Tacit Knowledge and Explicit Knowledge on Job Performance through Learning Organization Capacity. The population in this study is a building material manufacturing company in Central Java, with a sample of 100 respondents. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling and data analysis used PLS. The results showed that Tacit Knowledge and Explicit Knowledge had a positive effect on Learning Organization Capacity and also, Knowledge Management and Learning Organization Capacity had a positive effect on Job Performance

The role of intellectual capital in organisational value creation: An application of a theoretical model to two case studies

This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 17/06/2004.The research in this thesis focuses on the intangible resources of organisations. Intangible resources include an organisation's collective knowledge and learning, leadership talent, the values that shape its culture, routines and processes and the collaborative relationships. These intangible resources are known as intellectual capital (IC) because they support organisational activity along with financial and physical capital. Previous research has classified IC into three principle components of human, organisational and relationship capital and has established a link between IC and organisational value. Recent studies have also emphasised the notion of interrelationships between the three components of intellectual capital in developing capabilities that drive value creation. Yet it is often unclear how the various elements interrelate to one another to generate organisational value. This thesis investigates how IC contributes to organisational value creation. Central to this research is the examination of the mechanisms through which IC factors are integrated within organisations in order to develop capabilities. As innovation is widely agreed to be a determinant of organisational value creation, this research adapted and extended the model of intelligence and innovation proposed by Glynn (1996) to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework for empirically examining the synergistic effects of IC. Building upon four major theoretical streams: resource-based view of the firm, innovation theory, intellectual capital theory and organisational capabilities, this research has elaborated the ideas and constructs presented in the original model and de-contextualised them to an intellectual capital perspective. A qualitative, interpretive approach was applied to two in-depth case studies for investigating the intangible resource-base of two knowledge intensive companies. The results were then expanded to a cross-case context in order to compare and contrast the value creating potential of the IC factors. The findings of this research are presented in the form of a descriptive framework that classifies the characteristics of a value creating process. The purpose of the framework is to provide pointers for identifying IC resources and developing capabilities in a way that provides an organisation with sustainable competitive advantage, and thereby, value

Types of Absorptive Capacity as Antecedents of Innovation Capability: Mediating Effect of Knowledge Management

Objectives: The idea of absorptive capacity has become one of the most crucial ideas in the field of strategic management since it is frequently seen as a crucial component in developing innovative potential. Observations have been made regarding whether knowledge management must be present. As a result, the function of knowledge management as a mediating variable to the links between potential and realized absorptive capacity, and ultimately their effects on innovation capability, is discussed in this paper.Methodology: 180 Business Administration graduates with relevant employment experience served as our source for the data. We then observed their potential and discovered their capacity for invention, knowledge management, and absorption using SEM-PLS with SmartPLS software which was utilized as an aid in our analysis of the outcomes.Finding: Our results show that there is no significant association between either type of absorptive capacity or innovative capability. Innovative capability does not greatly lag behind absorptive capacity, whether potential or realized. However, when knowledge management is incorporated as a mediating element, realized absorptive capacity has a positive and significant indirect impact on innovative capability.Conclusion: Knowledge management has a strong mediating effect on realized absorptive capacity and has a positive as well as significant indirect impact on innovative capabilit

Tacit Knowledge Sharing for Individual Innovation Capability at Indonesian SMI

Knowledge sharing is an asset for industrial organizations. These assets play a key role in global competition. Especially in increasing the innovation capacity of Small and Medium Industries (IKM). In this case innovation means introducing new products, making qualitative changes to existing products, introducing new processes in industrial organizations, creating new markets, and developing new sources of raw materials or other inputs. Much knowledge is stored in individuals, which is called tacit knowledge. Sharing tacit knowledge among individuals associated with industry organizations can increase the capacity of innovation previously explained. This study analyzes the relationship between sharing tacit knowledge and organizational innovation capabilities. Certain SMI employees located in Semarang, Central Java were the respondents for this study. Opinions as many as 45 members of each IKM have been analyzed using the hypothesis testing method. Through this research, it is shown that the level of sharing of tacit knowledge influences IKM's innovation ability