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Knowledge sharing and organizational performance
No full textMalaysia is one of the industrializing and emerging countries that willing to undertake the rapid economic change and investing in more productive capacity. The contribution of output and employment from the manufacturing sector has been steadily increasing, while the economy from industrial era has shifted to information era; focusing more on knowledge-based economy. Manufacturing companies in Malaysia are facing challenges and opportunities from a rapidly changing operating environment and industrial revolution, generation of new sustainable value chain systems, and contribution to the knowledge-based economy. The aim of this study is to examine the influence of tacit and knowledge sharing on organizational performance among manufacturing companies in Malaysia. This quantitative study would provide an insight on the importance and effects of tacit and explicit knowledge sharing toward organizational performance among Malaysia’s manufacturing companies. The key underpinning theory of this study is Knowledge-based View (KBV). Data were obtained from 145 manufacturing companies in Malaysia via the representative of Production Managers. This study provides fundamental knowledge and direction for researchers in further research as well as practitioners to constantly improve their organizational performance through the stimulation of tacit and explicit knowledge sharing practices
The mediating effect of competitive capabilities on the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational performance among manufacturing companies in Malaysia
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the mediating effect of competitive capabilities on the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational performance among manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Malaysia’s manufacturing companies have shown lower performance in terms of quality, innovative, and financial performance. Prior research have emphasized that manufacturing sector in Malaysia has suffered the worst business conditions since 2012 due to the companies are practicing conventional production systems, which lead to less competitive in connection with higher cost, lower quality, and lack of innovativeness. Thus, this study has investigated competitive capabilities and they are conceptualized as a multidimensional construct which consist six dimensions of competitive capabilities (i.e. quality, cost, delivery, flexibility, innovation, and environment). The respondents of this study are 145 Malaysia’s manufacturing companies which have high responsive on improving organizational performance and make their organizations’ competitive capabilities effective. Quantitative approach was applied in this study. The data were collected using the disproportionate stratified random sampling method and analyzed by using the statistical analysis of Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling. Measurement model, structural model, and mediating analysis were employed to test the relationships between tacit and explicit knowledge sharing, competitive capabilities, and organizational performance. Overall, the results have showed that competitive capabilities have the mediated the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational performance among manufacturing companies in Malaysia, which served to demonstrate the importance of assessing competitive capabilities as a multidimensional construct. For direct relationships, tacit and explicit knowledge sharing were shown to have significant positive influence on organizational performance (i.e. financial, quality, and innovative performance). However, tacit knowledge sharing did not have a significant relationship with innovative performance. Furthermore, only cost, delivery, innovation, and environment had significant positive relationships with tacit knowledge sharing. For explicit knowledge sharing, it was shown to have a positive relationship with competitive capabilities. On the other hand, quality and cost are found to have positive relationships with financial performance. The capabilities of quality, delivery, and flexibility also found to be positively related to quality and innovative performance. In the discussion part, this study has justified the unsupported relationships that there is a need for companies to break away from the conventional ways of producing products and developing production processes, and try out a different one by setting up competitive capabilities and knowledge sharing practices to achieve higher organizational performance and sustainable competitive advantage. Overall, the present work has provided empirical data to describe the mediating effect of competitive capabilities and the influence of tacit and explicit knowledge sharing on organizational performance among manufacturing companies. The findings may serve to develop better understanding and guideline for Malaysia’s manufacturing companies to accommodate current business environment and improve organizational performance
Innovation and performance on manufacturing companies in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between innovation, innovative and production performance amongst manufacturing companies in Kata Kinabalu with the moderating effect of year of establishment. In this study, innovative is conceptualized as a multidimensional construct which consist four dimensions of innovation (i.e. product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation and organizational innovation). Managerial level employees whom are qualified to represent their manufacturing companies in making decisions are the participants in this study. Data from 323 respondents were used for the statistical analysis using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. The data were collected using the disproportionate stratified random sampling approach. measurement model, structural model and moderator analysis were employed to test the relationships between innovation, innovative performance and production performance with the moderating effect of year of establishment. The results showed that innovation are related to product innovation, process innovation and organizational innovation have a significant influence on innovative performance. In addition, there is evidence that innovation related to product innovation, process innovation and organizational innovation also have a significant effect on production performance. However, marketing innovation does not have a significant relationship with innovative performance and the relationship between marketing innovation and production performance is not supported. Furthermore, the year of establishment of organization moderates the relationship between innovation and innovative performance. Also, this year of establishment moderates the relationship between innovation and production performance. Specifically, this study found that the moderating role of year of establishment with a high year of establishment (11 years and above) has a positive relationship between organizational innovation and innovative performance, whereas low year of innovation and production performance. The results imply that manufacturing., performance and production performance
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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