Organizational innovation as an enabler for the emergence of a non-precompetitive knowledge ecosystem

Amel Attour (), Loubna Echajari () and Nicolas Remond ()
Additional contact information
Amel Attour: GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur
Loubna Echajari: Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs - LIST3N - Laboratoire Informatique et Société Numérique - UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes
Nicolas Remond: Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs - LIST3N - Laboratoire Informatique et Société Numérique - UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: In this paper we conduct a qualitative case study on how knowledge management occurs within a regulated safety context that seeks to make its knowledge sustainable. Thus, organizations, which operate in this context, try jointly, to create, share and, above all, sustain this knowledge for a long time. The most effective way to meet their objectives is to redesign their inter-organizational architecture into a non-competitive knowledge ecosystem. The back and forth between the research field and the theory, led us to ask the following research question: how a regulated safety context should evolve into a non-pre-competitive knowledge ecosystem? To answer this research question, we adopted an organizational perspective, integrating knowledge management and organizational innovation streams. Our results show the emergence of a non-pre-competitive knowledge ecosystems where actors' interactions are strictly collaborative due to its main goal: sustainable and inter-organizational knowledge management. This emergence is enabled by internal and inter-organizational innovation, i.e., the development of a knowledge management process. Organizational innovation is articulated within the actors' own (intra-organizational) knowledge systems, but also through the knowledge flow that is exchanged at the inter-organizational level. To achieve this, ecosystem governance is ensured by a focal actor (through regulatory legitimacy) who assumes the role of orchestrator, to sustain the knowledge flow through coordination and collaboration of ecosystem members.

Keywords: Sustainable Knowledge; Knowledge Ecosystem; Non-precompetitive Ecosystem; Organizational Innovation; Regulated Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-07
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-04126171v2
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD), pp.616-633, 2023, 978-88-96687-16-1

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-04126171v2/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04126171

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().