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Purpose – To provide an inventory of leader behaviours likely to enhance employees’ innovative behaviour, including idea generation and application behaviour.

Purpose – This paper integrates the knowledge management and marketing literatures to examine the relationships between knowledge management (KM) practices during a service exchange and customers’ satisfaction and behavioral intentions.

This paper was written especially for Management Science, 2, 3 (Apr. 1956) pp.197-208 and was reprinted in General Systems, Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research, vol. 1, 1956.

Author/Creator

Abang Taha, Abang Hatta

Institution

University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business and Law, Newcastle Business School

Description

Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Description

The fragmented nature of the construction industry leads to poor sharing of knowledge between the designers and constructors of projects. Most construction problems arise because of deficiencies in the design. More often than not, these problems are left to the constructors to solve at the site. However, the knowledge gained by the constructors in solving these problems is unlikely to be shared with the designers in such a way that the same design deficiencies will be avoided in future projects. Effective knowledge sharing contributes towards improving the designer construction knowledge. There are a number of design-construction interfaces in construction projects, during which information exchange and knowledge sharing could take place between designers and contractors. This information exchange and knowledge sharing will help to overcome the design deficiencies as well as problems during construction attributed to these deficiencies. Construction project and organizational knowledge that are crucial to the designers and Knowledge Management tools for locating and sharing project knowledge are identified. This research used responses from forty-two (42) respondents to test the relationships between the application of knowledge sharing tools and the improvement of designer construction knowledge, with respect to the crucial construction project and organizational knowledge areas identified in the Malaysian construction industry. At the same time, the frequencies with which the sharing of construction knowledge between designers and constructors occurs through the various approaches were compared. The results of the analysis confirmed positive relationships between the application of all the knowledge-sharing approaches (except brainstorming) and the designer construction knowledge. The positive relationships between the variables for the non-IT knowledge sharing tools support the findings of studies carried out by earlier researchers which suggest that in the construction industry, knowledge sharing and learning depend heavily on the informal social processes and practices that lean towards a community approach. However, whilst respondents in this study perceive that there is a positive relationship between applying the IT based knowledge sharing tools and the improvement of designer construction knowledge, studies by various other researchers indicate otherwise, in which it was concluded that the ICT-based approach to sharing of project knowledge has not been very effective. The rankings for the choice of knowledge sharing tools indicate a similar pattern as those arrived at in a UK study except for research collaboration.

Date

2010

Keyword(s)

knowledge sharing;  construction industry;  Malaysia

Resource Type

thesis

Language

eng

Author/Creator

Ho, Po Kee Perry

Institution

University of Newcastle. Faculty of Business and Law, Newcastle Business School

Description

Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Description

Hong Kong is seen as a world leader in building and developing its economy and entrepreneurs have a unique status in Hong Kong. These entrepreneurs constitute a majority of businesses and employ a significant part of the population and thus are vital for the economy of Hong Kong. This dissertation looks into and studies this phenomenon to evaluate the various components of the success of these entrepreneurs and to draw conclusions that will benefit the educators, the legislators as well as the new entrants wishing to become entrepreneurs. Most of the available literature on this topic of entrepreneurship treats the subject without specifics so that not much is revealed about the psyche of the Hong Kong entrepreneurs. This research includes interviewing seven successful Hong Kong entrepreneurs and attempts to find their reasons for success. In accordance with Digman’s (1990) conceptualization of entrepreneurial traits the seven candidates also show their perceptions and achievements of success based on sociability, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience. It can be found that each may demonstrate some factors of success, but that each perceptions of success is different, as is their sense of achievement, showing that the personal perceptions of success of the Hong Kong Entrepreneur are wide and varied. It has been found that the main source of entrepreneurial success in Hong Kong is of very complex origin. While the normal rules of sound business principles, as found in the Western business world, are a necessity, a large part of the success is attributed to exceptional leadership qualities. Leadership in the East has connotations of deep respect for all sections of the society and based on Confucian principles of kindness and contributions quite different from that of the West. The Hong Kong entrepreneur seems to succeed when they are able to blend the best qualities of the East and the West. Based on the research outcomes, the PAST model has been developed to assist Hong Kong Entrepreneurs of the future.

Date 2011

Keyword(s) entrepreneurship;  successology;  Hong Kong

Resource Type

thesis

Rights  Copyright 2011 Po Kee Perry Ho

Language eng