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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM) 14(2)The contents of the latest issue of: *International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)* Volume 14, Issue 2, April - June 2018 Indexed by: Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC, PsycINFO®, SCOPUS, Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) *For a complete list of indexing and abstracting services that include this journal, please reference the bottom of this announcement.* Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1548-0666; EISSN: 1548-0658; Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA www.igi-global.com/ijkm https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-knowledge-management/1083
Editor-in-Chief: Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University, USA) *Note: The International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM) has an Open Access option, which allows individuals and institutions unrestricted access to its published content. Unlike traditional subscription-based publishing models, open access content is available without having to purchase or subscribe to the journal in which the content is published. All IGI Global manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.*
*ARTICLE 1*
Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Application, and Innovation Towards the Ability to Adapt to Change
Lejla Turulja (School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Nijaz Bajgorić (School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The objective of article is to provide important empirical evidence to support the role of individual knowledge management processes and separate innovation types within firms. Specifically, knowledge acquisition and knowledge application are analyzed and empirically tested in relation to product and process innovation as well as business performance. The results support the direct impact of product and process innovation on business performance. In addition, the results show the indirect effect of knowledge acquisition and knowledge application on firm business performance through product and process innovation. Although KM represents a complex concept of knowledge management in a firm and can contain more processes, this article confirms that KM processes individually contribute to the innovation and indirectly on business performance. Besides, it confirms mediating effect of innovation between both knowledge acquisition and knowledge application and organizational business performance. In addition, most of the similar studies have been focused on the developed Western countries.
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*ARTICLE 2*
Procedure Based on Semantic Similarity for Merging Ontologies by Non-Redundant Knowledge Enrichment
Carlos Ramón Rangel (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), Junior Altamiranda (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), Mariela Cerrada (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador), Jose Aguilar (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
The merging procedures of two ontologies are mostly related to the enrichment of one of the input ontologies, i.e. the knowledge of the aligned concepts from one ontology are copied into the other ontology. As a consequence, the resulting new ontology extends the original knowledge of the base ontology, but the unaligned concepts of the other ontology are not considered in the new extended ontology. On the other hand, there are experts-aided semi-automatic approaches to accomplish the task of including the knowledge that is left out from the resulting merged ontology and debugging the possible concept redundancy. With the aim of facing the posed necessity of including all the knowledge of the ontologies to be merged without redundancy, this article proposes an automatic approach for merging ontologies, which is based on semantic similarity measures and exhaustive searching along of the closest concepts. The authors' approach was compared to other merging algorithms, and good results are obtained in terms of completeness, relationships and properties, without creating redundancy.
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*ARTICLE 3*
Influence of Behavioral Intentions, Affective Trust and Affective Commitment on Knowledge Sharing Behavior
Toshali Dey (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India), Susmita Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India)
This article describes how with the growing importance of knowledge in today's competitive environment, it becomes vital for organizations to unfold all the strategies for implementation of a successful knowledge management system. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of knowledge sharing intention (KSI) and affective trust (AT) on knowledge sharing (KS) behaviour of employees. Additionally, the mediating influence of affective commitment (AC) of the employees in this relationship is also studied. This study uses data from a sample of 246 managers in Indian private sector firms and employs Structural Equation Modelling approach to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings of this study show that contrary to the results of prior research, BI does not affect KS behaviour directly. Rather, it acts indirectly through AC, which is necessary for increasing employees' loyalty and willingness to share their knowledge. Moreover, the results indicated that AT has an indirect influence on employees' KS behaviour via KSI. Implications and limitations and future scope of the study have also been discussed.
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*ARTICLE 4*
Technology Transfer Projects in the UK: An Analysis of University - Industry Collaboration
Martin George Wynn (University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK)
This article examines how technology transfer has operated in university-company projects undertaken in small to medium sized enterprises via the UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme. It adopts a qualitative case study approach, focusing on three companies drawn from an initial review of fourteen technology transfer projects. This provides the foundation for the development of a model of 12 key factors that underpinned successful outcomes in these projects. The fourteen projects are reviewed in terms of their impact on either process change, service improvement or product development, drawing upon the post-project assessments of the funding body and the developed model. Findings suggest that using new technology to innovate internal processes and services is likely to prove more successful than projects focusing on new product development. The model provides an analytical framework that will be of interest and value to academics and business practitioners looking to develop university-industry partnerships involving technology change and innovation.
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*ARTICLE 5*
Knowledge Transfer from International Consultants to Local Partners: An Empirical Study of Metro Construction Projects in Vietnam
Son Ngoc Nguyen (School of Management (SOM), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand), Nazrul Islam (School of Management (SOM), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand)
Inspired by the fact that local partners acquire substantial knowledge from foreign consultants, an empirical study has been conducted on four metro construction projects in Vietnam to assess the knowledge transfer in practice. The process and results have been recorded in this article. A two-stage model has been developed and tested by using data obtained from 130 respondents. The first stage demonstrates that there are at least six factors affecting the knowledge transfer from foreign consultants to local partners. The second stage shows that acquired knowledge helps to improve the performance of the local partners. In addition to well-known determinants such as the transferor's willingness, capacity to transfer, the learner's intent and capability to learn, the results of the study provide the evidence to confirm the important roles of knowledge-related factors and environment-related factors. Furthermore, this study enriches the literature on knowledge transfer by adding a look into a specific context of consulting services.
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*ARTICLE 6*
Knowledge Sharing in a Critical Moment of Work: A Driver for Success?
Fitri Wulandari (Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Surakarta, Sukoharjo, Indonesia), Augusty Tae Ferdinand (Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia), Christantius Dwiatmadja (Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia)
This article aims at proofing empirically the influence of social interaction in knowledge sharing by focusing on key persons and the way the knowledge-sharing is spread in order to produce some outcome for the organization through individuals within it. The object of this study is employees of Post Offices in Central Java who frequently share information with their co-workers in accomplishing their jobs. The data is acquired from questionnaires distributed to managers and supervisor level of Post office. Based on purposive sampling method, 210 samples are obtained. The results indicate that the five hypotheseses built in this research are supported and only one hypothesis is not supported. The result shows that employees with specific, complicated, and challenging objective will be more willing to share their knowledge to other employees, particularly when facing new job and target. Furthermore, the result of the study explains that sharing idea of improvement will encourage more dynamic teamwork and help each other in solving any problems.
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Mission of IJKM:
The primary objective of the *International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)* is to provide a comprehensive cross discipline forum for advancing the understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the creation, capture, transfer and use of knowledge in organizations. The secondary objective of this Journal is to share knowledge among researchers and practitioners with respect to the design, development, implementation and maintenance of effective knowledge management systems. The journal publishes high quality empirical and theoretical research covering all aspects of knowledge management. In addition to full-length research manuscripts, the journal publishes insightful research and practice notes as well as case studies from all areas of knowledge management.
Indices of IJKM:
- ACM Digital Library - Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) - Bacon's Media Directory - Burrelle's Media Directory - Cabell's Directories - Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index) - CSA Illumina - DBLP - DEST Register of Refereed Journals - EBSCOhost's Library/Information Science & Technology Abstracts with FullTEXT - Gale Directory of Publications & Broadcast Media - GetCited - Google Scholar - INSPEC - JournalTOCs - KnowledgeBoard - Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA) - MediaFinder - Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) - PsycINFO® - SCOPUS - The Index of Information Systems Journals - The Standard Periodical Directory - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory - Web of Science - Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Coverage of IJKM:
The* International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)* covers all aspects of the knowledge management discipline, from organizational issues to technology support to knowledge representation. High quality submissions are encouraged using any qualitative or quantitative research methodology. Submissions are especially encouraged covering the following topics:
- Basic theories associated with knowledge creation, knowledge management, and organizational memory - Case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory systems - Cognitive theories of knowledge management and organizational memory - Design of information and communication systems that facilitate knowledge transfer and sharing - Enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer behaviors - Global issues in knowledge management and organizational memory - Issues related to the capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use of knowledge and organizational memory - Knowledge acquisition and transfer processes - Knowledge management in small and medium enterprises - Knowledge management strategy - Knowledge management training issues - Knowledge reuse in organizations - Knowledge transfer and sharing behaviors within emergent organizational forms such as virtual communities - Methodologies and processes for developing knowledge management systems - Metrics and effectiveness of knowledge management and organizational memory systems - Organizational and economic incentive structures for knowledge sharing and use - Organizational culture impacts on knowledge management - Organizational learning - Use of semantic networks, topic maps, the Internet, digital documents, XML, taxonomies, ontologies, and other technologies to implement knowledge management systems
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