soran mowlaie; roya shakeri; noor mohammad yaghoubi
Volume 22, Issue 4 , February 2019, , Pages 130-150
Abstract
Flexibility, speed of change and innovation are the characteristics of successful companies in their effective time. In order to survive, even for a decade, companies must constantly change, but change solely, is not enough. Changes should be based on collection of appropriate data from the outer and ...
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Flexibility, speed of change and innovation are the characteristics of successful companies in their effective time. In order to survive, even for a decade, companies must constantly change, but change solely, is not enough. Changes should be based on collection of appropriate data from the outer and inner environment and their conversion to knowledge. Among the essential skills and competencies of managers in knowledge based companies, one fote most important one is personal knowledge management skills. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate effect of personal knowledge management on innovative culture and performance in knowledge based companies in Kurdistan province in 2017. From methodological perspective, this study is a survey-applied based on descriptive-survey. Required data collected through combining and integrating several standard questionnaires with use of form reforms. Content validity of factors confirmed with the opinion of the experts and then the validity of the test construct was confirmed using factor analysis methods. In order to analyze the collected data, Partial Least Square method (Smart PLS) used. Results confirmed the appropriateness of all research hypotheses and also showed a positive and significant relationship between personal knowledge management and innovative culture and innovative performance in the research model. At the end, there are also suggestions in relation to the research variables.
Siamak Noori; mohammad Esmailzadeh; Alireza Aliahmadi; Hamidreza Nouralizadeh
Volume 22, Issue 2 , September 2018, , Pages 205-225
Abstract
Innovation is recognized as a key factor in nations and firms competition and innovative firms are one of the perquisites for a dynamic and competitive economy. But firms face challenges and obstacles in path of innovation which different categories of these obstacles are presented. The purpose of ...
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Innovation is recognized as a key factor in nations and firms competition and innovative firms are one of the perquisites for a dynamic and competitive economy. But firms face challenges and obstacles in path of innovation which different categories of these obstacles are presented. The purpose of this paper is studing innovation barrieers and determining the effects of them on different types of innovation in renewable energy firms. In this regard, innovation obstacles are identified and examined in terms of two categories of internal and external obstacles. Innovations are also divided into four categories of product, process, organizational and marketing. The research has been carried out among 154 renewable energy companies. In order to achieve these goals, at first, the research model was analyzed using factor analysis and path analysis technique and after assessing the fitting of structural models, the research hypotheses test was performed. The research results confirm six factors as internal barriers and six factors as external barriers. Among these factors, the lack of proper market identification and the lack of external resources to finance innovative activities have the greatest effect on the creation of each of the internal and external barriers respectively. Also, eight research hypotheses have all been accepted, indicating the impact of these two categories of barriers on all types of innovation in renewable companies.
