Pursuing Innovation Through Knowledge Sharing: Brazil and Portugal

Eduardo Kunzel Teixeira, Mirian Oliveira and Carla Maria Marques Curado
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Eduardo Kunzel Teixeira: PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Mirian Oliveira: PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Carla Maria Marques Curado: ISEG-UL, Lisboa, Portugal

International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM), 2019, vol. 15, issue 1, 69-84

Abstract: The present study investigates the relationship between knowledge sharing (knowledge donation and knowledge collection dimensions) with organizational innovation (Administrative and technological innovation forms) in Brazilian and Portuguese organizations. The hypotheses were tested using the partial least squares (PLS) approach. Knowledge donation was shown to be positively related with administrative innovation among Portuguese companies, but not among Brazilian companies. Knowledge donation was shown to be positively related with technical innovation among both Brazilian and Portuguese companies. Knowledge collection was shown to have no relationship with either of the two types of innovation in the two investigated countries. As a practical implication, companies that work in multiple locations need to customize their sharing processes considering differences in national culture. Other studies have made use of the two-dimensional concept of knowledge sharing, but view its relationship with a one-dimensional construct of innovation and without comparing contexts.

Date: 2019
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