bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Religião e mecanismo vitimário
Authors: Laurindo Felipe Rondinele
Published: September 2023

O presente texto pretende lançar um olhar sobre a reverberação de violências contra as vítimas esquecidas e apagadas pela história ocidental, as quais, paradoxalmente, por efeito desse esquecimento, parecem mais propícias a perseguições e sentenciamentos vitimários. Isso porque, nos casos das vítimas periféricas, dos povos colonizados e escravizados, a violência aparece, em muitos aspectos, encoberta por camadas ideológicas de procedimento religioso ou político. Nesse cenário protagonizado por violências e desfechos de perseguições, não é raro encontrarmos fenômenos de bode expiatório. Acerca desse aspecto, tentaremos avaliar em que medida a leitura não sacrificial do cristianismo teria provocado, por outro lado, violências de efeito vitimário contra os povos colonizados.
Palavras-chave: Violência, bode expiatório, vítima, cristianismo, subalternidade.
MARGENS À MARGEM
Authors: Do Amaral Thais Fernandes
Published: September 2023

Com vistas a ampliar discussões relativas aos estudos da Colonialidade e Decolonialidade na disciplina  Ciência  da  Religião  no  Brasil,  este  artigo  objetiva  responder  a  seguinte questão: como se articulam as questões da Colonialidade do Poder, Ser e Saber e o caso retratado no podcast A Mulher da Casa Abandonada? Para tal, por meio de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, o início se voltará para a compreensão da Colonialidade e suas faces, com foco na relação entre os europeus invasores, os povos originários de Abya Ayala e os povos do continente africano. A seguir serão articulados os dados obtidos no início do texto com o caso do podcast e a condição de trabalho doméstico das mulheres pretas no país. Por fim,  serão  traçados breves intuições relativas às Teorias Descoloniais, necessárias para que haja uma inversão no mapa imaginário que coloca o Norte acima do Sul, em uma relação hierárquica de opostos.
Trocas de vestes e transformações
Authors: Salomão Silva Daniel
Published: September 2023

O artigo busca destacar a presença de conceitos análogos ao de perispírito, conforme descrito nos escritos de Allan Kardec, em textos da Antiguidade judaica, particularmente não bíblicos. Entre os textos judaicos pseudoepígrafos e apócrifos, particularmente os apocalípticos, vamos encontrar descrições de viagens celestiais, cujos personagens têm seus corpos transformados, em geral à semelhança de uma troca de vestes. Nesse processo, algumas características encontram analogia com descrições espíritas do perispírito e de suas propriedades. Analisando trechos das obras 1 Enoque, 2 Enoque, Apocalipse de Sofonias e Ascensão de Isaías, e reconhecendo barreiras linguísticas e culturais que separam as duas tradições religiosas em questão, concluímos pela proximidade de entendimentos.
Estudo descritivo das técnicas cirúrgicas para hemorroidectomia: uma revisão bibliográfica dos procedimentos convencionais ao laser de alta frequência
Authors: Batista Gabryella Silva , Forin João Vitor de Queiroz , Santos Paola Cristina Ferreira , Dos Reis Eurípedes Barsanulfo Borges
Published: September 2023

Introdução: A doença hemorroidária é determinada como uma patologia coloproctológica e seu manejo ocorre de acordo com a presença de complicações, de características sintomatológicas e do grau definido das hemorroidas internas. Em pacientes com indicação ao tratamento cirúrgico, a hemorroidectomia mostrou ser muito eficaz como uma alternativa a longo prazo, contudo, ainda apresenta alguns intercursos importantes no período pós-cirúrgico. Por isso, novos protocolos têm sido implementados. Objetivo: O estudo em questão visa a descrição e a discussão das técnicas cirúrgicas atuais de hemorroidectomia. Metodologia: Foram utilizados artigos científicos retirados do banco de dados norte-americano (PUBMED), do Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO), e do Google Acadêmico, utilizando os descritores hemorroidectomia, Hemorroidas, Fluxometria por Laser-Doppler e seus correspondentes na língua inglesa e espanhola. Realizada delimitação de artigos dos últimos 10 anos. Conclusão: Conclui-se que o número de procedimentos cirúrgicos anuais que objetivam a extirpação da sintomatologia apresentada pelo paciente torna-se relevante no âmbito da Cirurgia Geral. A implementação do uso de LASER de alta frequência pode oferecer inúmeros benefícios quando comparado aos métodos convencionais de hemorroidectomia.
Організація самостійної навчально-пізнавальної діяльності студентів мистецьких факультетів ЗВО у процесі вивчення диригентсько-хорових дисциплін
Authors: Костенко Людмила
Published: September 2023

У статті акцентовано увагу на проблемі формування самостійності студентів у процесі диригентсько-хорової підготовки, подано теоретичне узагальнення досвіду організації самостійної навчально-пізнавальної діяльності студентів мистецьких факультетів  ЗВО. Наукова новизна статті полягає в узагальненні та досвіді організації самостійної навчально - пізнавальної діяльності студентів мистецьких факультетів. Пропонується впровадження системи інноваційних технологій навчання з метою забезпечення високого професійно-кваліфікаційного рівня випускників, відповідно до вимог сучасних стандартів вищої освіти. Розглянуто етапи вивчення диригентсько-хорових дисциплін в умовах впровадження КМС: діагностичного (визначення рівня музично-теоретичної та практичної підготовки студента-початківця); організаційного (розробка форм та методів самостійної диригентсько-хорової підготовки); управлінського (створення зовнішніх і внутрішніх умов, що регулюють процес індивідуалізації самостійної роботи студентів). Пропонований підхід організації навчально-пізнавальної діяльності студентів розглянуто в контексті розвитку творчої самостійності вчителів-хормейстерів.
The Effect of Knowledge Creation Practices on Managerial and Marketing Innovation Through Creativity
Authors: Hammami Rawâa , Bouzguenda Karima
Published: September 2023

Knowledge creation (KC) is viewed as one of the important practices in knowledge management (KM) process. It is argued that the success of the firm is measured, to a great extent, by its level of innovation. In fact, an innovation-oriented perspective contributes to sustainability. Moreover, innovation is usually developed through new knowledge and creative ideas. That’s why; it is relevant to examine the relationship between KC, creativity, and innovation. The first objective of the present paper is to study three direct relationships: The first relation is between KC and innovation (managerial, marketing). The second direct relation is between knowledge creation and creativity. The Third direct relation is between creativity and innovation. The second objective is to analyze the relationship between KC and innovation through the mediation of creativity. Finally, we will compare the results and identify the strongest and significant links useful for practice. The focus is on non-technological innovation because the majority of studies dealt with technological innovation. Added to that, managerial and marketing innovation is supposed to procure an advantage for emergent economies in a post-revolutionary and Covid context. The quantitative approach is adopted upon which 83 valid questionnaires are analyzed using the SEM with Pls3 to test the relationships between the variables. The results show that KC has a positive and significant effect on the two considered types of innovation. In addition, since KC dynamics allow organizations to develop and generate new ideas favorable to innovation, it has a positive effect on creativity. The test of mediation proves that creativity intervenes in the relation between KC, operationalized by the SECI model, and innovation. Based on these results, we may conclude that the relationship between KC and innovation becomes the strongest with the mediation of creativity. Certainly, these results have several implications both on the theoretical and empirical sides.
Rejecting Innovation: How Italian Public Employees are Killing Creativity and Digitalisation
Authors: Berardi Marco , Ziruolo Andrea , Fontana Fabrizia
Published: September 2023

Within the general context of new ideas generation, there is a grey area that still concerns the organizational design solutions related to creativity. In fact, if personal characteristics and other community-related issues have been quite explored, some organizational mechanisms still need to be deepened. In this paper, we aim to investigate the impact of professional networks on Innovative Work Behaviour in the local government to achieve public value. We investigate the contribution of creativity in the digitalization of Italian public administration considering the contribution of public employees to developing knowledge management. Moreover, we investigate a community of 190 employees of municipalities divided into three macro categories: deputy employees, Managers and Senior Managers. An OSL regression model has been used to understand to what extent the degree of collaboration and advice among employees and their propensity to adopt digitalization in ordinary practice considering social capital variables. What emerges from the OLS regression is that despite accelerating the ordinary work using the leverage of digitalization and knowledge management, there is the custom of not applying the enormous benefit of process re-engineering and continuing their work attitude in what the economic literature defines as “the comfort zone”. The results consolidate the current literature about the creation of public value showing the resilience of public employees to change their state of mind reflecting any kind of innovation.
Relational Capital & Media Brands
Authors: Erickson Scott , Rothberg Helen
Published: September 2023

Continuing a research program studying new metrics for relational capital, this paper reports on a new analysis of media brands, both traditional and newer entrants.  Relational capital is a key aspect of the knowledge assets or intellectual capital of the firm.  Unlike human capital (job-related knowledge) or structural capital (knowledge incorporated into the firm itself), relational capital has to do with external relationships.  Specifically, knowledge about handling external relationships, especially those with customers.  Relational capital is not a widely studied topic in knowledge management (KM) or intellectual capital (IC), including potential metrics.  Brand equity, on the other hand, is an idea from another field that is well-known and much studied.  While not the same concept as relational capital, it is clearly related as brand equity comes from a history of customer interactions and the value of the relationships built by the firm.  Better knowledge of what satisfies customers plays an obvious role in building brand equity.  But brand equity does not have a single, recognized method for calculation.  Annual reports and rankings from marketing consulting firms routinely provide estimates of brand equity for high-value, well-known brands.  Most of the other brands, not so much.  Even so, if we know the brands with the highest equity values and can tie some additional metrics to that status, we can begin to uncover the level of customer knowledge held by individual firms and, by extension, relational capital in a wider variety of organizations.  This study focuses on a brand sentiment analysis, using commercial software from Salesforce Social Studio.  The web-scraping software collects mentions of a brand (or any keyword) across the web, not only social media but reviews, aggregators, and other sources of brand commentary.  From that capability, an assessment of the brand’s meaning to users can be assessed at a point in time.  In particular, this study looked at established media brands (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc.) and new media brands (Buzzfeed, Techcrunch, etc.) over a three-month period in early 2023.  Data were collected on brand activity (volume), sentiment (positive/negative), sources, influencers, country of origin/language, and other indicators, including the variance of all the above measures.  From there, comparisons can be made across the more established brands and the developing ones, as well as to high-equity brands from other industries (covered in other studies).  As noted, some suggestions can then be made concerning what metrics to track over time to assess the ongoing value of relational capital.
Exploring Onboarding Processes for IT Professionals: The Role of Knowledge Management
Authors: Brødsjø Vebjørn , Sandøy Benjamin , Hustad Eli
Published: September 2023

A robust knowledge management (KM) strategy is essential for effective onboarding of new employees. Organizational knowledge plays a crucial role in helping new employees learn their work tasks and should be readily available for training purposes. This study examines how a public organization in Norway implements its onboarding process and facilitates knowledge sharing with new employees. We investigated various KM initiatives established in the organization and explored how knowledge is transferred to benefit new employees. Additionally, we examined how organizational culture influences knowledge sharing performance. The empirical data comprises 20 interviews conducted in the information technology department of the organization. The findings reveal that new employees should first receive training on specific work tasks related to their roles in the organization. Early productivity was considered significant during the onboarding process, while an overload of general knowledge about the organization was perceived as overwhelming. The public organization under study is known for its strong job security, which has fostered a collaborative environment among employees with low competitiveness. This openness encourages knowledge sharing and willingness to collaborate, as employees are not worried about losing their positions. This also results in a low threshold for seeking assistance from experienced colleagues during the onboarding process. The evidence suggests that much of the knowledge gained by employees during their employment period is acquired through informal settings, where experienced employees share knowledge with newcomers through direct communication.

Based on the findings, this study proposes practical recommendations for improving the onboarding process. Effective practices such as mentorships, new employee gatherings, and the existing technical graduate program should be maintained. Suggestions for further enhancing the onboarding process include: (1) designing a networking initiative that integrates new employees outside the graduate program; (2) tailoring the competence plan to the role of each employee; (3) improving the content of the intranet with information about role descriptions and responsibilities, making it easier to identify "who knows what" in the organization; and (4) defining the reasons for using collaboration tools more extensively. Implications for KM in onboarding processes are outlined.
Collaborative Structures in WikiProjects. Wikipedia Users' Activity Case Study
Authors: Kukowska Katarzyna
Published: September 2023

The research presented in the article concerns the development of organizational and cooperation structures from interpersonal interactions in virtual communities sharing knowledge. It is assumed that the activity of communities functioning on the Internet reflects the organization of human communities in the offline space. The main aim of the research was to characterize the structures of cooperation groups that are formed around WikiProjects. The research question was: what is the structure of activity of Wikipedians in WikiProjects in chosen language versions of Wikipedia? The method used in the research is the content analysis method. The author calculated data thanks to the Wikipedia xTools. The numbers of participants involved in WikiProjects were analysed by referring to the Dunbar number concept and the cultural determinants of cooperation, thus referring to the masculinity index (MAS) according to Hofstede. Research has shown that WikiProject members show similarities to the layered community formation proposed by Dunbar. The sizes of groups of active editors are closer to these values. As the WikiProjects group grows, the ratio of declared participants to active participants decreases. The production of value in virtual communities, the ability to work together as a team in physical isolation, is becoming increasingly important. The results of the research may be significant to the knowledge management specialists and virtual communities practitioners.
Impact of Non-Human Actors in Communicating Meaning: Towards a Knowledge Translation Framework
Authors: Garcia-Perez Alexeis , Bedford Denise
Published: September 2023

Knowledge Translation is a core research topic in the field of knowledge sciences.   To date, traditional research on knowledge translation has come from medical and health sciences.  This is not surprising because in health sciences and medicine, there is a long tradition of review of evidence-based research, information dissemination and translating theory to application.  While providing a strong foundation for understanding knowledge translation, research focused on the healthcare domain overlooks the scope or the scale of knowledge translation we all encounter every day in the course of living in the 21st century.  In the knowledge economy, knowledge exchange and simple sharing represent an economic transaction.   Wherever and whenever knowledge is exchanged, knowledge transactions should be as effective and efficient as possible to ensure the flow of knowledge is maximised.   Knowledge exchange frequently occurs between human and non-human actors. In contrast, the traditional knowledge translation literature focuses on human-to-human knowledge translation. This paper looks at knowledge exchanges between human actors and non-human actors in two specific environments.  The first is human-to-machine knowledge translation in service call centres. The second environment focuses on doctor-patient conversations during patient visits, with the participation of third-party non-human actors, e.g. machine transcription applications. These non-human actors create persistent records of exchanges between doctors and patients.  They also have been found to generate high rates of errors in knowledge translation.  The problems, challenges and opportunities involved in each of these fields are the focus of this paper.  The authors identify factors that contribute to knowledge translation failures.
The Role of the Intellectual Potential of Employees in Creating the Goodwill of a Teaching Hospital
Authors: Chluska Jolanta
Published: September 2023

Hospitals are medical entities providing health services to patients. The dominant share of labour costs in the cost structure of the healthcare entity is evidence of the critical role of employees in a hospital's activities. Specialized medical staff provide medical services and educate future medical staff, while also conducting clinical trials and supporting the development of medical technologies. The article aims to recognize the impact of the intellectual potential of employees on creating goodwill in a teaching hospital. The inference was made based on the financial data available on hospital employees' income and labour costs as factors in the development of the goodwill of a teaching hospital. The following research questions were posed: whether the existing legal regulations regarding the financing of the activities of teaching hospitals in Poland, including the costs of medical staff, are conducive to the creation and development of goodwill of teaching hospitals; whether the ratio of the value of operating revenues to labour  costs can be considered as a determinant of the increase in the goodwill of a teaching hospital. The research was conducted based on reporting data for 2018 - 2019 involving selected teaching hospitals as the basic units associating high-class medical specialists. The research was empirical and based on quantitative and qualitative data. The analyses were of an expert nature, from the perspective of a statutory auditor and a long-term researcher of the problems of the functioning of medical entities - hospitals. The preliminary findings indicate that the intellectual capital of teaching hospitals is crucial in creating and developing the goodwill measured by the ratio of the value of operating revenues to labour costs. The considerations undertaken in the article are an essential voice in recognizing the conditions for developing hospitals as entities with intellectual capital that is helpful in solving health problems on an international scale. The article is a continuation of the author's research on the development of intellectual capital of employees of teaching hospitals in Poland.
Vulnerabilities and Knowledge Risks in Knowledge Processes
Authors: Nestian Andrei Stefan , Guta Alexandra Luciana
Published: September 2023

This study aims to put forward measuring scales for two central concepts – vulnerabilities and knowledge risks – and identify the factors composing the two constructs. The research presented in this paper is part of a larger project investigating knowledge vulnerabilities and risks appearing in knowledge processes of organizations. In this sense, a new ontology developed by Brătianu et al. (2022) was used to design an instrument for measuring risks and vulnerabilities related to knowledge processes in organizations. Organizational knowledge dynamics perspective (Brătianu et al., 2022) was used to group knowledge risks typologies into the following clusters: knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge loss, knowledge sharing, knowledge use, emotional knowledge dynamics, spiritual knowledge dynamics. Examples of knowledge risks belonging to such clusters may include a knowledge risk of non-creation and a knowledge risk of bad timing (for knowledge creation cluster), knowledge spillover or knowledge forgetting (for knowledge loss), as well as knowledge hiding and knowledge hoarding (for knowledge use). Our study fills a gap in the literature by suggesting a scale for measuring knowledge risks and grouping them by factor, and also a scale for measuring vulnerabilities and grouping them by type of vulnerabilty by means of principal components analysis. Current state of knowledge on vulnerabilities and knowledge risks comprises mainly theoretical approaches. Also, most studies do not discuss the concepts of knowledge risks and vulnerabilities together. The main novelty of our study lies in its quantitative approach to analysing knowledge-related vulnerabilities and risks. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of employees comprising both managers and non-managers from Romanian organizations. The factors resulted after having applied the principal components analysis have provided a clearer picture of the constructs of vulnerabilities and knowledge risks, leading to a deeper understanding of knowledge processes and their risks.
Knowledge Management in the Ecolabnet Project: Practical and Theoretical Utilisation of Eco-innovations
Authors: Chmielarz Grzegorz
Published: September 2023

The underlying objective of the paper is to analyse the process of managing theoretical and practical knowledge about eco-innovations, utilising it in ECOLABNET project. A network of project partners consisting of RDI institutions, Intermediary Organisations, and universities was established to promote exchange and dissemination of knowledge on eco-innovative solutions and services among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the countries of the Baltic Sea Region. The paper presented the principles applied in the knowledge management (KM) process within the project with a particular stress on the research conducted on the group of European SMEs form the Baltic Sea Region (BSR), first stage of ECOLABNET project implementation. The research provided much needed knowledge on the project’s beneficiaries – SMEs form the BSR region and facilitated the adjustment of the offer of the project consortium. Expert knowledge, eco-innovative products and services that have been provided by the network of partners assist SMEs in implementing and commercialising eco-innovative solutions. In this way they significantly contribute to practical application of sustainability principles by expanding the offer of project beneficiaries (SMEs) with environmentally-friendly products and services.  In addition, the author also, highlights the advantages of a combined approach including expertise in the form of theoretical knowledge being supported by prototypes of eco-innovations. Their particular role in strengthening the eco-innovative capabilities of the entire network and the overall success of the project have been detailed as well.
Exploring the Intersection of Knowledge Management and Spirituality in Higher Education Institutions
Authors: Neves Carla , Rocha Raysa , Pinheiro Paulo
Published: September 2023

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have the fundamental role of teaching, research, and interaction with society, which are the three main vertices in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. HEIs can enhance their sustainability and competitiveness by effectively managing the knowledge of each collaborator and creating more value. In this way, HEIs lay the foundation for sustainable growth and extend their competitive advantages. However, it requires motivated and committed collaborators aligned with the mission, values, and objectives of the organization. Therefore, we suggest that the incorporation of spirituality can promote innovation, organizational sustainability, and increase knowledge management practices. To address the research gap on the integration of KM and spirituality in HEIs, we conducted a literature review using three databases, Web of Science, Scopus, and EBSCO. The review revealed that the integration of KM and organizational spirituality has not been studied in an integrated way. As such, we present suggestions for future research and practice, emphasizing the need for HEIs to focus on managing knowledge and incorporating spirituality into their practices to enhance their competitiveness and sustainability. Accordingly, this study contributes to the literature by awarding and discussing KM and spirituality as two key components of HEIs. Once, incorporating spirituality can promote innovation, organizational sustainability, and increase knowledge management practices. Moreover, this study provides valuable insights for HEIs to improve their management practices, promote sustainability, and enhance their competitive advantages.
Identifying Knowledge Management Processes in Futures Research
Authors: Da Silva Jonathan Augusto , Argôlo Matheus , Barbosa Carlos Eduardo , Oliveira de Lima Yuri , Dos Santos Herbert , Lyra Alan , De Souza Jano
Published: September 2023

Governments and organizations utilize Knowledge Management to create, share, use, and manage their knowledge to gain competitive and strategic advantages. They also use Futures Research techniques, such as Foresight, technology assessment, and technological forecasting, to comprehend the forces that shape the future and consequently affect them. Despite Knowledge Management and Futures Research being two distinct subjects, they support decision-making processes and help people make the right decisions, sharing unexplored similarities. However, there is a lack of understanding regarding the relationship between Knowledge Management and Futures Research, the integration of Futures Research techniques to support Knowledge Management processes within organizations, and how specific Futures Research techniques align with different knowledge dimensions. A brief search showed us that academic literature that combines knowledge from both areas is quite scarce. By identifying the similarities between Knowledge Management and Futures Research, this work aims to demonstrate how to apply Futures Research techniques to Knowledge Management processes, particularly in the SECI (Socialization, Externalization, Combination, and Internalization) knowledge creation and conversion model. Therefore, this study analyzes 53 Futures Research techniques, such as Scenarios, Brainstorming, Expert Panels, Delphi, and Bibliometrics, among others, to establish a relationship between Knowledge Management and Futures Research. The proposal also includes exploring the relationship between different Futures Research techniques and the four knowledge conversion dimensions according to the SECI model, providing justification for how Futures Research techniques can be helpful for knowledge conversion activities. With the relationships between Futures Research techniques and Knowledge Management processes established, a framework is provided for further development of practical guidance on how organizations and governments can integrate the implementation of Knowledge Management and Futures Research techniques, particularly with methods that are useful for decisions regarding technological investments. Understanding the relationship between Knowledge Management and Futures Research is expected to provide valuable insights for governments and organizations seeking to improve their decision-making processes through Knowledge Management.
Changes in the Labor Market in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Occupations Desired by Employers in the Polish Labor Market
Authors: Jędrzejczyk Waldemar
Published: September 2023

The contemporary business environment is very dynamic. Only two years ago, the factor that determined changes in organizations the most was the technological progress – mass digitization of processes combined with progressive automation and robotization. Currently, the situation has changed a lot. Today's economy has to cope with another crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. The pandemic caused worldwide social and economic disruption, including the deepest global recession since the Great Depression. The pandemic also brought changes to the labor market and work environment. The most visible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work environment was the spread of remote work. In this article, the main subject of consideration will be the issues of occupations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main objective is to assess the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market. The analysis covered 2019-2023 and was based on secondary and primary research. The unemployment rate and the Occupational Barometer were analyzed. In-depth interviews with employment agents and career advisors were conducted. The conducted analyses and research showed that the changes in the labor market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic were temporary. The most significant changes occurred during the first year of the pandemic. Today, after the cessation of the epidemic threat and the revocation of the pandemic, the situation in the labor market has returned to normal - to the pre-pandemic state. The only change in the labor market that has not returned to the pre-pandemic state is the number of people working remotely.
Virtual Reality for Supporting Knowledge Sharing: An Exercise of Technology Assessment
Authors: Gurian Gennifer , Bolisani Ettore , Kirchner Kathrin
Published: September 2023

Knowledge sharing is an important process in knowledge management to foster collaboration. For itseffective management, it is often suggested to use the support of adequate technologies. Virtual reality (VR) is a promising technology whose application in business increasingly attracts attention in activities, such as business meetings or training, where participants need to share knowledge in a complex context with communicational, social, and management implications. Due to the immersive capabilities, VR may provide new ways of sharing knowledge. However, due to the novelty of this technology, research is needed to evaluate its potential and drawbacks. This study aims to contribute to further understanding of whether and how the introduction of VR in organizations can favour knowledge sharing and collaboration between employees and to evaluate its potential, challenges, and prospects. It is based on a qualitative exercise of technology assessment based on two approaches: technology monitoring and collection of expert opinions using interviews with experts in organisations specialised in VR. Our analysis shows that VR has the potential to break barriers of time and space that may hinder effective human interactions. It can simplify the sharing of notions, data, and, more generally, knowledge, and allow people to connect and communicate as active protagonists. However, adopting VR may require organisational changes and has some limitations. In addition,appropriate knowledge-sharing models for VR applications still need to be developed. Consequently, our paper argues that although much is possible today with VR, further developments are still needed for this technology to reach complete maturity.
Managing Human Capital with Employee Clustering Through the Interplay of the Persona Concept
Authors: Mikhlina Anastasiia , Saukkonen Juha
Published: September 2023

Nowadays, employees are seen as active Human Capital Management (HCM) consumers. Megatrends such as individualization and flexible work impact the workforce, especially generations Y and Z. Finding and retaining talent is a challenge that companies try to address, from employer branding to covering the whole lifespan of the company-employee relationship. Management is likely to know every employee in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); however, larger companies need to categorize their human capital into certain entities. This paper explores the usability of the Persona concept for HCM. Persona is a service design approach widely applied in marketing, and a few research papers have argued that personas may have a role in improved people-oriented HCM. In short, personas aim to create a limited set of archetypes that differ from each other regarding demo- and psychographics. Generally, they are a mix of real-life people and some imaginary attributes. Different personas will likely request different services to feel fully motivated and supported. The core target of this article was to identify the common awareness of personas among HCM experts across industries and countries. Also, the ideation of future use of Personas was studied with marketing experts actively using personas in their professions. The qualitative study based on twelve semi-structured individual interviews was conducted in November-December 2022. The results indicate that the HCM community is well aware of the persona concept, which is widely used. However, the current usage of personas is mainly focused on employer branding and recruitment, and only in a few cases the usage covered the design of internal HCM processes. The study also revealed some limitations for HCM that are not present in the marketing field. Demands for transparency, equality, data privacy, and personal integrity set challenges in clustering the workforce. The results indicate the further need for research on best practices of creating and using Personas in a way that ethically serves the interests of both the company and the employee.
Employee Well-being and its Potential Link with Human Knowledge Risks
Authors: Zieba Malgorzata , Gonsiorowska Martyna
Published: September 2023

Employee well-being is an essential component of any organisation organisation. Conscious companies make every effort to create a healthy work environment. The well-being of employees and their overall emotional, physical and economic health is affected by various internal and external factors. When employees feel well, they tend to perform better. Therefore, the impact of employee well-being on the organisation is a fact and has been proven in many studies. People with a high level of well-being have greater self-confidence and self-esteem, which means that they are not afraid to look for new solutions and innovations. They are also generally more committed to their work and more dedicated to the organisationorganizational goals (Kim, 2021). Finally, they are more productive, which affects the whole performance of the company. Despite the high importance of employee well-being for the success of organisations organisations, little is known about how this well-being might influence human knowledge risks appearing in organisations. The article aims to present the potential link between employee well-being and human knowledge risks. The paper presents theoretical insights related to employee well-being, as well as human knowledge risks. organisations and organisations.This study has allowed us to identify the potential link between employee well-being and human knowledge risks, which brings several implications for organisations and organisations. showsThe ability to create conditions by managers to increase the well-being of their employees might be useful, in the trial of minimising human knowledge risks in organisations. The study is of theoretical character, and thus its findings should be further examined in practise research studies. The study provides useful information for managers and owners of organisations in need of dealing with various human knowledge risks threatening their organizations. The paper is enriched with a number of sample solutions that they may apply to increase the well-being of their employees and, therefore, mitigate those risks. The paper lays the ground for a better understanding of human knowledge risks and its relationship with employee well-being. As such, the paper offers food for thought for researchers dealing with the topic of human knowledge risks and human resource management, in general.
Preconditions for the development of organizational knowledge ecosystem inside an audit firm
Authors: Jucevicius Giedrius , Aukscenyte Ema
Published: September 2023

The paper aims to present key preconditions for the development of organizational knowledge ecosystem inside an audit firm. The audit activities represent a specific context for knowledge management, especially what concerns knowledge sharing and generation of new knowledge in organizational environment of formal rules and standards. We present the survey of audit firm employees (68) and their management by discussing the key challenges related to the dynamic knowledge sharing and new knowledge creation inside an audit firm. The paper investigates the nature of knowledge within an audit firm and analyses the cultural and structural aspects of KM practices that may lead to the emergence of ecosystem for sharing the existing and generating new knowledge. The paper adopts the intra-organizational perspective to knowledge ecosystem. The audit firm operates as knowledge organization that, despite its strong formal side, is a complex dynamic system of knowledge professionals, who form the different communities of practice inside the firm. Research presented in this paper helped identify the key challenges and opportunities for the emergent knowledge partnerships inside the professional audit firm. The key cultural preconditions behind the effective knowledge ecosystem - trust-based relations, organizational culture, positive horizontal and vertical relations, and strong intrinsic motivation to share knowledge - are in place. Research findings also reveal a good fit between the employee expectations and organizational practices. However, certain challenges need to be addressed, such as bringing out and embodying the tacit knowledge of employees, and the need for continuous upgrading of the processes of knowledge creation and integration. To establish an effective and sustainable knowledge ecosystem inside the professional services firm, the paper argues for striking a delicate balance between the formal and informal parts of organization, as well as its KM system.
Aesthetics as Knowledge: An Aspect of the Future of Knowledge Management?
Authors: Kerschbaum Clemen
Published: September 2023

Knowledge Management (KM) is concerned with the process of capturing, organizing, sharing or utilizing knowledge within an organization. At least since the works of Nonaka and Takeuchi in the 90s, it is a commonplace that the term knowledge, as understood from the perspective of KM, includes both explicit and tacit elements. However, it seems that the focus of many KM initiatives and resulting KM systems still lies mostly on the more explicit facets of knowledge. This has two implications for the field: the first is the obvious danger of confusing knowledge management with information management. The second, which is actually a consequence of the first, is that the focus on technology and explicit knowledge can lead to a diffusion of the field of KM towards more technical domains such as Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs or Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Those fields have arguably become way more capable of managing explicit knowledge and draw the attention of companies away from ‘traditional’ KM systems (Davenport, 2015). Thus, in this paper, I argue that KM research should somewhat reconsider its strengths which lie in the management of tacit knowledge that is closely tied to humans. Following this argument, I propose organizational aesthetics as one of many promising avenues for KM research in the future. The idea for this stems from a recent literature review on organizational aesthetics that identifies three perspectives on the topic – one being aesthetics as a knowledge tool (Baldessarelli, Stigliani and Elsbach, 2022). According to this perspective, aesthetics is seen as a form of knowledge that originates in sensory perceptions and is permanently deployed in the interaction with organizations, organizational artifacts, and social settings. The present paper hence aims to contextualize the notion of organizational aesthetics for the field of KM to give an overview of the idea and offer a basis for discussion on whether aesthetics could be a useful field for future inquiry.
A Transdisciplinary Research Model Through Knowledge Co-production in Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Authors: Giugliani Eduardo , Susin Priscila , Jung Marques Maria Angélica
Published: September 2023

This paper presents the transdisciplinary research and conceptual model adopted by the projects developed within the research center HFACTORS – Human Factors and Resilience Research Center. Transdisciplinary research produces knowledge with workers, be they leaders or sharp-end professionals, and within the company, as it seeks to understand the daily demands without imposing pre-defined solutions. In this sense, a transdisciplinary research model aims to integrate and co-produce “actionable knowledge” to face challenges and complex problems where disciplines alone are no longer enough. This paper shows how the HFACTORS Center seeks to implement a multi-perspective approach to its interventions, transcending disciplinary boundaries, co-producing knowledge, and connecting scientific knowledge with everyday practice. Such an approach requires multiple ways of working, developing strategies, and creating tools and spaces for co-production where different teams can work and interact. Interaction can occur on various levels and allows both the co-creation and co-production of narratives, solutions, and negotiations, as well as the prototyping of ideas and learning from integrating knowledge (scientific and applied). Therefore, we present the HFACTORS research model, describing the strategies and mechanisms used to develop processes of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production aligned with a Human Factors perspective, its implementation challenges and future research opportunities.
What Drives People to Share? The Relationship Between Working Style and Workplace FoMO
Authors: Kovari Edit
Published: September 2023

Workplace FoMO is defined as the fear of missing important tasks, information, and knowledge. It is driven by the fear of the dread of experiencing the anger or psychological pressure, and indirect expectation of co-workers, managers or other stakeholders at the place of work. The term also refers to the loss of promising opportunities (Fear of Better Options – FoBO) and network possibilities which can lead to another phenomenon Fear of Doing Anything (FoDO) which refers to the state when someone is indecisive. After factorial analyses of the original 5 FoMO types of Alutaybi et al (2020) this study applies the following factors: valuable information gathering, professional networking, individual contribution to work, and social interaction. One of the influencing factors of FOMO is internal motivation which is connected to working style. Considering the internal motivation and attitude to work, based on Kahler’s 5 positive drives (1975) Hay (2009) developed the following working styles: hurry up, be perfect, please people, try hard and be strong. This research presents the relationship between working styles and workplace FoMO based on a questionnaire filled by 201 employees of an international automotive company. Results shows that expect ‘Try hard’, the other 4 working styles indicate correlation with at least one of the factors of working FoMO.
Futurizing the Intellectual Capital Theory
Authors: Kianto Aino , Cabrilo Sladjana
Published: September 2023

Intellectual capital theory (IC) theory, which asserts that organisational value is for the most part created with intangible, knowledge-based resources, has become a prevalent way to approach the notion of business viability. Most IC research leans on the classical tripod of IC components, laid down by the first-generation researchers in the field. This tripod divides the value-generating knowledge assets into human capital, structural capital and relational capital; or, more simply put the value vested in an organisation’s personnel, internal structures and processes, and relationships. Even though this conceptualization has been challenged by some, it still remains the cornerstone of the IC-based view of the firm, and it is astutely followed by most researchers in this field. However, various large-scale technological, socio-political, and institutional changes have fundamentally changed the business environment and worklife in recent years. In this paper we argue that these changes call for a critical examination of the relevance of the classical conceptualizations of IC. It may be necessary to update the understanding concerning not only the most essential knowledge resources, but also the structure of IC and the way in which IC is related with new relevant organisational capabilities and aspects of organisational performance. The aim of this theoretical paper is to provide an overview of some of the most essential recent worklife trends that are likely to impact how IC should be understood: digitalization, remote work, gig work, open innovation, crowdsourcing, strive towards sustainability and resilience. Based on these, the paper puts forth a set of propositions concerning the needed novel perspectives for IC. In addition to constructing a novel theoretical framework and propositions for IC research, the paper functions as an introduction to the mini track on Futurizing the Intellectual Capital Theory and provides a common framework on which mini track participants can base their dialogue.