Vincent Ribiere

Bangkok University · IKI-SEA

The Metaverse is becoming a hot topic of discussion and speculation. Its application in many fields is likely to affect the way we interact, socialize, get entertained, work, learn, and even conduct research. The Metaverse offers shared immersive 3D virtual spaces that are based on the integration of various technologies, including virtual reality...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the conceptual confusion in the extant literature about organizational agility and explore its role in different relationships in the context of digital transformation. Design/methodology/approach An integrative review of the relevant literature on agility was conducted. The literature on organizatio...

This study investigates an exploratory uncertainty-knowledge sharing model contextualized in terms of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and based on the integrative framework of contingency theory and models of interpretation. The study attempts to explain the multidimensionality of and relationships between perceived environmental uncer...

Knowledge hiding, knowledge hoarding, and knowledge withholding have drawn increasing research attention in recent decades. Most researchers approached this topic by collecting quantitative data using questionnaires with self-reported scales. However, the underreporting nature of self-report measurement, particularly when studying sensitive and soc...

As the sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) systems develops and AI becomes a key element of organizational strategy across a wide spectrum of industries, new demands are being placed on senior leaders. To understand the growing challenges leaders will face in the age of AI, we conducted interviews with 33 senior leaders in several countr...

Digital Transformation (DT) has become an imperative for most organizations in our world of emergent and continuous changes. The term DT has been so broadly used (and misused) that it becomes very confusing. Consequently, the need to provide some conceptual rigor to DT is urgently needed. The purpose of this article is to develop a unified definiti...

Knowledge hiding, as an emerging novelty, has started to draw research attention since the last decade or so. Previous literature defined knowledge hiding as one’s deliberate attempt to withhold or conceal requested knowledge from another person and contended that three hiding strategies involved are playing dumb, evasive hiding, and rationalized h...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the government and private sector collaboration by focusing on their roles in influencing the innovation activities crucial for the development of a knowledge economy (KE) in Bahrain. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methodology based on an explorative single multi-unit case study strategy w...

From the first author who mentioned about the social aspects of team creativity (Amabile, 1983) to the one who introduced the concept of team innovation (West, 2002), there has not been any theoretical or empirical evidences on what constitutes the key factors that lead to effective team creativity. Various scholars have tried to model the concept...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the impact of team psychological safety and team learning on the creation of team knowledge. When teams engage in learning, their interactions contribute to improved performance. Very little research evaluates whether the learning also creates new knowledge related to the task or the team itself. Design/methodolo...

The recent rising interest of research in team creativity reflects the assumption that teams are more likely to have wider range of creative ideas and a wider pool of knowledge than one person alone. Even though many studies have shown that the sum of the individual creativity profiles of members composing the team have an impact on the overall tea...

Knowledge is commonly regarded as the most strategic asset in any organization. Higher education institutions (HEIs) are generally considered as knowledge intensive organizations engaged in producing, promoting and sharing knowledge. Managing knowledge flows in knowledge sharing (KS) processes is vital for universities to respond to the challenges...

Against the backdrop of the new labor market realities of the twenty-first century, employability has (re)emerged as a hot topic of debate in the context of the higher education institution's (HEI) fitness for purpose. While vigorously debated, the construct of employability remains opaque in terms of its definition. Investigations around how emplo...

This paper presents the conceptual development and piloting of a knowledge-based development model for primate cities. Using UNESCO’s knowledge societies conceptual framework, the study extends this framework by substantiating relationships between the framework’s components, intellectual capital, knowledge processes and macro-level sustainable dev...

As business complexity, innovation velocity and market volatility increase, corporate human resources needs for adaptive employees grow faster and faster. The manager of the 21st century not only must have the usual business knowledge but he also must have developed specific soft skills such as awareness, creativity, critical thinking and sense mak...

Employability has been on the political agenda for over two decades. The role of Higher Education (HE) in the development of employability in its learners is undeniably pertinent and with that, the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)’ ability to offer an effective developmental process in this regard shapes the current competitive climate in HE. B...

This chapter responds to the question posed in the title, expanding on the first documented analysis of the knowledge base of opinions from the stated 34 knowledge management experts. The expert group is composed of the visiting International faculty supporting the PhD KIM Research Program hosted by Bangkok University in Thailand. The video intervi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to evaluate if the concept of team psychological safety, a key driver of team learning and originally studied in the West, can be applied in teams from different national cultures. The model originally validated for teams in the West is applied to teams in Thailand to evaluate its validity, and the views team...

This paper chronicles exploratory research about the use of content analysis to guide the future knowledge management research agenda. The responses of 35 international knowledge management experts answering a question about the future of knowledge management were considered. The interviews, which were created as part of a different project, are fr...

Graphic inspired by Chesbrough, 2003.

'Employability' has enjoyed attention in the literature over the last 10-15 years, yet, developing timely and efficient quality control mechanisms in this context is a challenge for institutions of higher education (Stoker, 2012). Embedding the concept of employability in the curriculum affects the three key areas that make up Biggs's (2003 constru...

In a previous issue of Knowledge Management Research & Practice (KMRP), we analysed the content and keywords of all articles published in the first decade of KMRP. With this article, we extend our preliminary analysis to the citation and co-citations made by these articles. The study covers all the 256 articles published. The most cited article was...

Purpose In a knowledge economy where innovation is a way for an organization to gain a competitive advantage, team creativity becomes an important factor of success. This paper aims to look at how a team's creativity is influenced by the degree of the team's knowledge sourcing. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical model is developed and teste...

Celebrating the first decade of Knowledge Management Research & Practice, this paper aims to provide a keyword frequency and content analysis of all 235 journal articles published in the journal between 2003 and 2012. The main knowledge management themes and concepts published over the past 10 years are presented and discussed.

Team creativity in information systems development is becoming an important factor of success. This research looks at how team's creativity is influenced by the degree of team's knowledge sourcing and by the learning orientation of the team. This empirical study was conducted by gathering data from 148 graduate students working in teams on an e-com...

Many studies have examined the managerial factors, organizational factors and cultural factors that affect knowledge sharing behavior as well as intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors related to the intention to share knowledge. Few researches have examined how manager's leadership styles affect the intention to share knowledge of subordinates....

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the requirements of Knowledge Management (KM) services deployment in a Semantic Grid environment. A wide range of literature on Grid Computing, Semantic Web, and KM have been reviewed, related, and interpreted. The benefits of the Semantic Web and the Grid Computing convergence have been investigated, enume...

The adoption of Knowledge Management programs and systems in the U.S. government and nonprofit sectors is rapidly growing. However, for them to truly be successful, involves more than just implementing a new technology that can be acquire in a box; it requires understanding and integrating the human aspect of it as well as the culture in which they...

Organizations must innovate if they are to survive in today's fiercely competitive marketplace. In this paper, we explore how leading organizations are using emerging technologies to enable novel forms of ideation that can radically increase the sheer volume of ideas they explore. In addition, we outline how organizations use technologies to cost e...

Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives are expanding across all types of organizations worldwide. However, not all of them are necessarily successful mainly due to an unfriendly organizational culture. Organizational trust is often mentioned as a critical factor facilitating knowledge sharing. For this research we took an empirical approach to valid...

Purpose Web 2.0 technologies are becoming popular and are being used not only for social networking but also to facilitate communication and increase knowledge sharing in the work environment. Extensive research has been conducted in the past to understand the factors affecting the adoption and use of IT systems but few have studied the influence o...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a general framework describing how new generations of agile innovation processes can benefit from using KM 2.0 technologies. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive literature review coupled with expert interviews and combined with the authors' experiences and models were used to develop the fram...

Many factors have been identified as facilitating knowledge sharing in organizations. Culture is often considered as one of the critical ones. This empirical study examines the effect of national culture and in-group/out-group relationship on knowledge sharing attitude. A set of questionnaires measuring cultural values, and scenarios engendering di...

Purpose This paper aims to present how Bangkok University (BU) embarked on its knowledge management journey by examining how knowledge management processes could contribute to improve the educational environment by providing new styles of teaching and by increasing the relationships between faculty, students and staff. Design/methodology/approach...

Organizational culture and more particularly organizational trust is often mentioned as one of the main enablers for knowledge sharing and knowledge acquisition. For this research we used an empirical approach to validate this assumption. A theoretical model was developed to test the influence of organizational trust on the usage of various KM tool...

Lately, a debate regarding Knowledge Management decline has risen. Even though most of top executives recognize that knowledge is a strategic asset that leads to increase business performance, KM implementation remains problematic. The main barriers remain in its adoption by all types of users and contributors. Many companies reported examples of K...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the requirements of knowledge management (KM) services deployment in a Semantic Grid environment. A wide range of literature on Grid Computing, Semantic Web, and KM have been reviewed, related, and interpreted. The benefits of the Semantic Web and the Grid Computing convergence have been enumerated and...

Purpose – This case study aims to present the implementation of knowledge management (KM) in the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Ministry is a very complex environment and it is suffering from information overload. The health care industry is a very intensive knowledge field where experience and tacit knowledge play an impor...

Purpose This paper aims to present a general framework for fostering research collaboration and knowledge flow between university and industry in Thailand. Design/methodology/approach With the aim of comprehending complex interactions of the university‐industry (U‐I) linkage, the adopted research methodology for collecting data is based on a combi...

Purpose – The paper seeks to pinpoint new directions of the evolution of knowledge in the Arab region, and to outline the role of knowledge management principles in constructing the knowledge society. Design/methodology/approach – The article addresses initiatives towards narrowing the knowledge gap and building an egalitarian knowledge society in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide reinforcement for ITIL V 2.0 implementation process through knowledge management principles embedded in enterprise management‐engineering framework (EMEF). Design/methodology/approach – EMEF has been amended to include knowledge management (KM) activities that are imperative for a melioration of IT...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the business problems found in a fast growing European network security software company, define knowledge management (KM) initiatives that were implemented to solve these business problems and outline the necessary factors that made the implementation of these initiatives successful. The main driver...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether there is a relationship between improving the management of projects and the use of knowledge management (KM). Additionally, this paper sought to determine if KM practices in use by practitioners of project management are significant in terms of improving the management of projects, as wel...

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the requirements of Knowledge Management (KM) services deployment in a Semantic Grid environment. A wide range of literature on Grid Computing, Semantic Web, and KM have been reviewed, related, and interpreted. The benefits of the Semantic Web and the Grid Computing convergence have been investigated, enume...

The discipline of knowledge management (KM) is no longer emerging, but some organizations are still struggling to find the right approach that will allow them to fully take advantage of their intellectual assets. Having the proper organizational culture remains an important barrier to knowledge management success. This empirical research project, c...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define and explore the concepts and relationships between intellectual capital, knowledge, wisdom and corporate responsibility in the context of the corporate governance of Islamic financial institutions. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents an adaptation of the Nicholson and Kiel intellectual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of knowledge management (KM) principles and technologies to improve the outcomes of software acquisition projects. Software acquisition organizations typically contract‐out their software projects to reduce the risks associated with developing the software internally and to control their cos...

The discipline of knowledge management (KM) is no longer emerging, but some organizations are still struggling to find the right approach that will allow them to fully take advantage of their intellectual assets. Having the proper organizational culture remains an important barrier to knowledge management success. This empirical research project, c...

While the discipline of knowledge management (KM) is no longer emerging, some organizations are still struggling to find the right approach that will allow them to fully take advantage of their intellectual assets. Having the proper organizational culture remains an important barrier to knowledge management success. This empirical research project,...

The discipline of knowledge management (KM) is no longer emerging, but some organizations are still struggling to find the right approach that will allow them to fully take advantage of their intellectual assets. Having the proper organizational culture remains an important barrier to knowledge management success. This empirical research project, c...

Various models and frameworks have been used to represent the flows of knowledge in an organization. The first and most popular of these remains the spiraling SECI (socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) model presented by Nonaka and Konno (1998), Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995), and Nonaka and Toyama (2003), which presents the va...

While the discipline of knowledge management (KM) is no longer emerging, some organizations are still struggling to find the right approach that will allow them to fully take advantage of their intellectual assets. Having the proper organizational culture remains an important barrier to knowledge management success. This empirical research project,...

Various models and frameworks have been used to represent the flows of knowledge in an organization. The first and most popular of these remains the spiraling SECI (socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) model presented by Nonaka and Konno (1998), Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995), and Nonaka and Toyama (2003), which presents the va...

Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of trust in KM initiatives. However, very few have been conducted to quantify its effect and its relationship with other KM factors. The purpose of this study is to start filling this gap. Data from 101 US organizations involved in KM were collected. For each organization the level of usage of differ...

Many scholars and practitioners claim that a supportive organizational culture can enable the successful implementation of knowledge management (KM) technology initiatives. However, little empirical research has been conducted to define the key organizational culture attributes that support more effective application of KM technologies. In this stu...

This paper addresses the critical role leadership plays in the implementation and facilitation of knowledge management activities. Leadership is particularly important for organizations willing to ‘evolve’ their culture to a knowledge-supporting culture. Organizational culture has been identified as the main impediment to knowledge activities, and...

Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives are expanding across all types of organizations worldwide. The competitive benefits of KM efforts have been demonstrated and documented in industry, government and in the academic world for the past six years. However, recent global analyses of such initiatives highlight the fact that not all of them are necess...

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The SA-CMM is based on the expectation that a mature organization and its project managers will do a thorough job of planning software acquisitions. Each key process area within the SA-CMM addresses a project management process that must take place as an adjunct to planning and managing the software acquisition project. This requires the allocation...

Hospital information systems (HIS) play a significant role in providing quality healthcare services. However, HIS lag behind their industrial counterparts in providing quality (i.e., timely, accurate, complete) information and have been the target of many criticisms for alleged shortcomings. The aim of this research is to identify the requirements...

The "triple helix" model is considered as being a spiral model of innovation contributing to the country and regional improvement by fostering interactions between academic, industry and government. This model highlights the ties between the three parties at different stages in the process of knowledge capitalization and flow. Although, this model...

Nowadays ,organizations worldwide ,recognize ,the various benefits that Knowledge,Management ,(KM) can ,bring to their ,organization. As many ,prior management practices, the successful implementation of such initiatives is not without problems. This empirical research, conducted with data from 97 US organizations involved in KM, explores relations...