Sharing Research with Pleasure (ShaRP) and Sharing Knowledge Forward (SKF) to Peers – A SKEMA1 Initiative

International audienceThis project is not the project of one or several professors. First and foremost, it is the project of an institution: SKEMA Business School. Through the name that was chosen for our school (SKEMA = School of Knowledge, Economy and Management), it has been made obvious that knowledge has an essential place in SKEMA and is its main driver. In such a project, it is essential to pay tribute to all direct and indirect contributors and facilitators because each "node" of the resulting knowledge network is, indeed, essential for its survival and expansion. It is also important to highlight the essential role of our Dean, Alice Guilhon. This project would never have been born if she had not seen in it much more than some unrealistic idealism, if she had not considered the possible potency of the resulting knowledge network and, also, if she had not provided the means to institutionalize and encourage the simple endeavour of a few professors. The project highlights the importance of sharing knowledge with pleasure in a peer network and how this type of network positively encourages sharing knowledge forward

Does humility facilitate Knowledge Sharing? Investigating the role of humble knowledge-inquiry and response

International audiencePurpose-Despite the strong focus on virtues in firms, humility is little recognized in the management literature and, more particularly in the literature about knowledge sharing (KS). Despite efforts to foster KS among employees in firms, the effectiveness of this process narrows down to the dyadic relationship between the knowledge seeker and provider within firm. This paper aims to investigate the role of humility in the KS process in dyadic activity. Design/methodology/approach-The authors undertake an exploratory investigation to fill some of the gaps found in the literature. The paper draws insights from psychology, history, religion, current events and management literature. Findings-The authors identify several individual propensities that help predict humility towards sharing knowledge from seeker (humble knowledge-inquiry) and provider perspectives (humble response). They propose a new conceptual process model of KS with humility as an important variable to consider. This work highlights several promising directions for future research. Originality/value-As per the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper that investigates the role of humility in knowledge sharing from dyadic perspective. The authors also introduce concepts of humble knowledge inquiry and humble response in a dyadic context for effective knowledge sharing process

Tidal Forces in Kerr-AdS and Grey Galaxies

In a recent paper [arXiv:2305.08922], it has been proposed that the endpoint of the Kerr-AdS superradiant instability is a Grey Galaxy. The conjectured solutions are supposed to be made up of a black hole with critical angular velocity in the centre of AdS, surrounded by a large flat disk of thermal bulk gas that revolves around the black hole. In the analysis of the proposed solutions so far, gravitational effects due to the black hole on the thermal gas have been neglected. A way to estimate these effects is via computing tidal forces. With this motivation, we study tidal forces on objects moving in the Kerr-AdS spacetime. To do so, we construct a parallel-transported orthonormal frame along an arbitrary timelike or null geodesic. We then specialise to the class of fast rotating geodesics lying in the equatorial plane, and estimate tidal forces on the gas in the Grey Galaxies, modelling it as a collection of particles moving on timelike geodesics. We show that the tidal forces are small (and remain small even in the large mass limit), thereby providing additional support to the idea that the gas is weakly interacting with the black hole.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure

Knowledge sharing, knowledge transfer and SMEs: evolution, antecedents, outcomes and directions

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to systematically synthesize the extant literature of knowledge sharing (KS) and knowledge transfer (KT) in the small and medium enterprise (SME) context and to contribute with predictions of emerging themes. Design/methodology/approach: Applied is a systematic literature review using three bibliometric techniques: 1) Textual analysis for keywords and abstracts to identify the research hotspots; 2) Co-citation analysis of references to identify the evolution of KS and KT in SME; and 3) Bibliographic coupling analysis of documents to synthesize antecedents and outcomes. Findings: A conceptual map emerges from the review to reveal the antecedents of KS and KT at individual, group, and organizational levels. The analysis shows the strategic importance of KS and KT for the SME context. Specific findings include: 1) KS and KT are involved in enhancing SMEs strategic focus for human resources including, organizational learning, customer relations, creativity, higher profit and positive effects on operational processes and decision-making. 2) Innovation, trust, and performance are identified as central human factors linked to KS and KT in SMEs. 3) Human resource management research could contribute to KS and KT in the SME domain by exploring KS and KT based practices, linking the emergence of innovation and innovative behaviors to these practices, leading to a better understanding of strategies that enable the long-term storage and retrieval of tacit and explicit knowledge as organizational memory in the SME context. Originality/value: This paper is the one of the first to systematically review KS and KT in SMEs and propose a concept map. The research adds value to the growing literature of KS and KT and exposes the need for more specific activities to support SME managers, as well as HR managers, who need to facilitate KS and KT in SMEs