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Exploring the Links between Structural Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Capability and Business Competitiveness: An Empirical Study

Exploring the Links between Structural Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Capability and Business Competitiveness: An Empirical Study

Josune Sáenz, Nekane Aramburu, Olga Rivera
ISBN13: 9781605667904|ISBN10: 1605667900|EISBN13: 9781605667911
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-790-4.ch015
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Sáenz, Josune, et al. "Exploring the Links between Structural Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Capability and Business Competitiveness: An Empirical Study." Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer: Identifying Competitive Advantage, edited by Deogratias Harorimana, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 321-354. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-790-4.ch015

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Sáenz, J., Aramburu, N., & Rivera, O. (2010). Exploring the Links between Structural Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Capability and Business Competitiveness: An Empirical Study. In D. Harorimana (Ed.), Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer: Identifying Competitive Advantage (pp. 321-354). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-790-4.ch015

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Sáenz, Josune, Nekane Aramburu, and Olga Rivera. "Exploring the Links between Structural Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation Capability and Business Competitiveness: An Empirical Study." In Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer: Identifying Competitive Advantage, edited by Deogratias Harorimana, 321-354. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-790-4.ch015

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Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the degree of influence of different organizational enablers (i.e., “structural capital”) on knowledge sharing, as well as the influence of the latter and other structural capital components on innovation capability, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. Additionally, the relevance of different innovation capability dimensions (i.e., ideation, project management, and timeliness and cost efficiency) on business competitiveness will be examined. For these relationships to be tested, an empirical study has been carried out among Spanish manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees and with R&D activities. To this end, a questionnaire has been designed and submitted to the CEOs of the companies making up the target population of the research. Structural equation modelling (SEM) based on partial least squares (PLS) has then been applied in order to test the main hypotheses of the research.

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