Knowledge management practices and firm capabilities development: The moderating role of knowledge expropriation hazard in supply chain

Author

Xing, Wenfeng

Author_Institution

Int. Coll. of Bus. & Technol., Tianj in Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

fYear

2011

fDate

25-27 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Previous studies have established the significant relationships between knowledge management practices (KMPs) and firm capabilities development (FCD). These relationships, however, could possibly be moderated by knowledge expropriation hazard (KEH) arising from the opportunism of human beings. Based on knowledge management and strategic alliance research, the main objective of this paper is to empirically examine this moderating effect in a supply chain context. The results revealed that KEH significantly affected the relationship between mutual-codification practices (which is a component of KMPs) and FCD, but it did not moderate the relationship between high-interaction practices (which is another component of KMPs) and FCD.

Keywords

hazards; knowledge management; supply chain management; firm capabilities development; knowledge expropriation hazards; knowledge management practices; mutual codification practices; strategic alliance research; supply chain; Collaboration; Context; Correlation; Hazards; Hip; Knowledge management; Supply chains; firm capabilities development; knowledge expropriation hazard; knowledge management practices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2011 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

ISSN

2161-1890

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-310-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSSM.2011.5959301

Filename

5959301