Organisational knowledge transformation and its influencing factors in individual, team and organisational level

Wei Wu and Yan Yezhou

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2011, vol. 8, issue 3/4, 192-208

Abstract: Organisational knowledge transformation (OKT) influenced by many factors, usually exists at individual, team, and organisational level, which is a comprehensive process from the interaction of various tacit and explicit knowledge elements. Therefore, based on domestic and foreign research literatures, this paper firstly put forward the factors of OKT and their hypotheses in multiple levels, then utilises relevant datum of three questionnaire of every sample firm to examine the influence of those factors on OKT process by empirical analysis. Its research results show that: 1) the factors of OKT process have a construct of four variables, which are named as demand-inspirit-relation, trust, learning, and embedding; 2) demand-inspirit-relations and learning factor have a positive effect on knowledge transforming in all levels, and trust factor has a positive effect only in individual level, but no significant effects in team and organisational level, then the effects of embedding factor are also not significant in all levels.

Keywords: organisational knowledge; knowledge transformation; influencing factors; individual levels; team levels; e-business; electronic business; organisational levels; implicit knowledge; explicit knowledge; demand-inspirit-relations; trust; incentives; learning factors; embedding factors; high-tech industries; China; networks; virtual organisations; web based organisations; online organisations; networking; world wide web; internet. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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