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PurposeThe study examines the effect of human and social capital-supporting human resource (HR) practices and structural capital-supporting culture on innovativeness and the mediating role of knowledge management (KM) processes in the knowledge-intensive Indian IT sector.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative approach, the authors collected data from 387 employees in 30 IT organizations via a questionnaire survey. The authors analyzed data using structural equational modeling using AMOS 26.FindingsThe results indicate complete mediation of KM processes between human capital-HR (HCHRP), social capital HR (SCHRP), bureaucratic culture (BOC) space and innovativeness. KM processes partially mediated the effect of innovative-competitive culture (IOC) on innovativeness. KM processes have a robust predictive capacity for innovativeness, suggesting that human capital-supporting HR and innovative-competitive culture significantly contribute to KM Processes and innovativeness, respectively.Practical implicationsThis study provides practical insights to HR and knowledge managers to leverage their HR practices and organizational culture for improving innovation performance in KISO.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the intellectual capital and KM literature by exploring the mediating role of the KM process in the underlying mechanism suggesting that intellectual capital can enhance HR and culture, leveraging a firm's knowledge resources for innovativeness. It fills a research gap by providing original evidence based on primary data collected from India's IT sector.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the joint impact of competitive culture and knowledge behaviors (sharing, hoarding and hiding) on workplace happiness among healthcare professionals. It addresses a literature gap that critiques the development of happiness programs in healthcare that overlook organizational, social and economic dynamics. The study is based on the Social Exchange Theory, the Conservation of Resources Theory and the principles of Positive Psychology.Design/methodology/approachThe study analyzes a linear relationship between variables using a structural equation model and a partial least squares approach. The data are sourced from a survey of 253 healthcare professionals from Portuguese healthcare organizations.FindingsThe data obtained from the model illustrate a positive correlation between competitive culture and knowledge hoarding as well as knowledge hiding. Interestingly, a competitive culture also fosters workplace happiness among healthcare professionals. The complex relationship between knowledge behaviors becomes evident since both knowledge hoarding and sharing positively affected these professionals’ workplace happiness. However, no direct impact was found between knowledge hiding and workplace happiness, suggesting that it negatively mediates other variables.Originality/valueThis research addresses a previously identified threefold gap. First, it delves into the pressing need to comprehend behaviors that enhance healthcare professionals’ workplace satisfaction. Second, it advances studies by empirically examining the varied impacts of knowledge hiding, hoarding and sharing. Finally, it sheds light on the repercussions of knowledge behaviors within an under-explored context – healthcare organizations.

Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last two millennia, so too has the imagery of the game. In Imperial times it was seen as a tool to seek religious enlightenment and was one of the four noble arts that were a requisite to becoming a cultured gentleman. During the Cultural Revolution it was a stigmatized emblem of the lasting effects of feudalism. Today, it marks the reemergence of cultured gentlemen as an idealized model of manhood. Marc L. Moskowitz explores the fascinating history of the game, as well as providing a vivid snapshot of Chinese Go players today. Go Nation uses this game to come to a better understanding of Chinese masculinity, nationalism, and class, as the PRC reconfigures its history and traditions to meet the future.

Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess. Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family time is so scarce? By analyzing the roots of these competitive afterschool activities and their contemporary effects, Playing to Win contextualizes elementary school-age children's activities, and suggests they have become proving grounds for success in the tournament of life—especially when it comes to coveted admission to elite universities, and beyond. In offering a behind-the-scenes look at how \"Tiger Moms\" evolve, Playing to Win introduces concepts like competitive kid capital, the carving up of honor, and pink warrior girls. Perfect for those interested in childhood and family, education, gender, and inequality, Playing to Win details the structures shaping American children's lives as they learn how to play to win.

This study aims to mine a previously developed continuous-flow competitive exclusion culture (CFCEC) originating from the Tilapia gut microbiome as a rational and efficient autochthonous probiotic strain recovery source. Three isolated strains were tested on their adaptability to host gastrointestinal conditions, their antibacterial activities against aquaculture bacterial pathogens, and their antibiotic susceptibility patterns. Their genomes were fully sequenced, assembled, annotated, and relevant functions inferred, such as those related to pinpointed probiotic activities and phylogenomic comparative analyses to the closer reported strains/species relatives. The strains are possible candidates of novel genus/species taxa inside Lactococcus spp. and Priestia spp. (previously known as Bacillus spp.) These results were consistent with reports on strains inside these phyla exhibiting probiotic features, and the strains we found are expanding their known diversity. Furthermore, their pangenomes showed that these bacteria have indeed a set of so far uncharacterized genes that may play a role in the antagonism to competing strains or specific symbiotic adaptations to the fish host. In conclusion, CFCEC proved to effectively allow the enrichment and further pure culture isolation of strains with probiotic potential.

The main purpose of this empirical study is to examine the relationship between four types of organisational cultures and the shaping learning organisation. In this study, we have selected two groups of public organisations (more successful and less successful public organisations). The sample of this study comprises senior employees of these two groups. Results of Spearman Rank Correlation and Fridman tests reveal that there is a significant correlation between organisational cultures and learning organisations in Iranian public organisations. In addition, we found that although participative culture has a higher correlation coefficient, but learning culture has the highest ranking among different types of cultures. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

This research aims to investigate the influences of entrepreneurial culture on entrepreneurial financial performance via the mediating functions of organizational learning, creativity, and competitive advantage. The authors performed a questionnaire survey to obtain data from 315 entrepreneurs of new ventures in Ho Chi Minh City region, Vietnam in the period from November 2021 to June 2023. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was applied to test the associations between variables in the research framework. Organizational learning, organizational creativity, firm competitive advantage, and entrepreneurial financial performance were all shown to increase in direct correlation with the sharing of positive success stories and social norms. The results also demonstrated the partial mediating roles of organizational learning, organizational innovation, and firm competitive advantage in shaping the connections between entrepreneurial culture dimensions (social norms and success stories) and entrepreneurial financial performance. Thus, this study mitigated ongoing debates in the literature, while strengthening the resource-based view theory in the entrepreneurship context. However, this study showed that there is no direct effect of entrepreneurial culture dimensions on entrepreneurial financial performance. The findings provide recommendations for new ventures to better understand and appreciate the cultural factors that are necessary to expand their knowledge and skillset, spark new ideas, and gain a competitive edge, ultimately leading to their sustainable financial success. Ovo istraživanje ima za cilj istražiti utjecaje poduzetničke kulture na financijsku uspješnost poduzetnika putem posredničkih funkcija organizacijskog učenja, kreativnosti i konkurentske prednosti. Autori su proveli upitnik kako bi dobili podatke od 315 poduzetnika novih pothvata u regiji Ho Chi Minh City, Vijetnam, u razdoblju od studenog 2021. do lipnja 2023. Modeliranje parcijalnih najmanjih kvadrata strukturne jednadžbe (PLS-SEM) primijenjeno je za testiranje povezanosti između varijabli u okviru istraživanja. Pokazalo se da se organizacijsko učenje, organizacijska kreativnost, konkurentska prednost poduzeća i financijska uspješnost poduzetnika povećavaju u izravnoj korelaciji s dijeljenjem pozitivnih priča o uspjehu i društvenim normama. Rezultati su također pokazali djelomične posredničke uloge organizacijskog učenja, organizacijskih inovacija i konkurentske prednosti poduzeća u oblikovanju veza između dimenzija poduzetničke kulture (društvenih normi i uspješnih priča) i financijske uspješnosti poduzetnika. Stoga je ova studija ublažila tekuće rasprave u literaturi, dok je ojačala teoriju pogleda temeljenu na resursima u kontekstu poduzetništva. Međutim, ovo je istraživanje pokazalo da nema izravnog utjecaja dimenzija poduzetničke kulture na financijsku uspješnost poduzetnika. Nalazi daju preporuke za nove pothvate za bolje razumijevanje i uvažavanje kulturoloških čimbenika koji su neophodni za proširenje njihovog znanja i vještina, poticanje novih ideja i stjecanje konkurentske prednosti, što u konačnici dovodi do njihovog održivog financijskog uspjeha.

This article identifies and discusses the most frequent issues in cross-border business consulting for European organizations and executives working in China. In China, all issues are ultimately political. The main challenges for organizations, whether in the private or public sector, are dealing with the ambiguous boundaries between business and government, developing a localized organization while working with a diverse international management team, maintaining strong partner relations, and managing expectations at head office. Since organizations consist of individuals, the article also addresses the challenges for individual executives as they try to be effective leaders and get results in a very different and difficult market. The discussion illustrates some of the tools and methodologies used for solving these challenges successfully. Der Artikel identifiziert und diskutiert die häufigsten Probleme, mit denen europäische Organisationen und Führungskräfte in China konfrontiert werden, wo alle Themen hochpolitisch sind. Die zentralen Herausforderungen für Organisationen im öffentlichen oder im privaten Sektor sind der Umgang mit den unklaren Trennung zwischen Geschäftswelt und Regierung, der Aufbau einer lokalen Organisation bei gleichzeitiger Arbeit in einem internationalen Managementteam, die Pflege enger Verbindungen zu den verschiedenen Partnern sowie der Umgang mit den Erwartungen der Firmenzentrale. Führungspersönlichkeiten sehen sich dabei Fragen gegenüber, die das effektive und erfolgreiche Arbeiten in einem sehr schwierigen Markt betreffen, der sich von den europäischen Märkten sehr deutlich unterscheidet. Der Artikel diskutiert Instrumente und Methoden, die zur erfolgreichen Bewältigung dieser Herausforderungen genutzt werden können.

This chapter contains sections titled: Some Perceived Sins of Modernity On Not Making a Stand Counter‐Currents The ‘Counter’‐Culture Today: Gentle Flows The Issue of Commodification: The Mastery of Money? Concluding Thoughts Summation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic literature review of the studies that have analyzed the impact of culture on innovation. Design/methodology/approach The authors carried out a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed articles in the past 37 years (January 1980-January 2017). Based on a total of 61 identified primary studies, the authors developed two clusters of culture definition studied in relation to innovation, including organizational culture and national culture. Findings After reporting the findings of the systematic literature review, the authors discuss how a variety of culturally related factors combine to facilitate or restrict innovation performance in their corresponding cluster. The findings highlight the complex and idiosyncratic relationship between culture and innovation. Future research lines are recommended. Research limitations/implications The authors adopt a systematic literature review method to probe into existing literature, inevitably missing some empirical studies. Implications for future research are suggested. Practical implications The paper offers interesting implications for managers and academia. For business practitioners, this study can provide a useful reference regarding the role of cultures in the corporate internal management or international operations; for scholars, the study can provide a current research landscape and development process in this field. Originality/value The findings are derived from a systematic literature review that has studied the influence of culture on innovation. In addition, implications and insights as to where future research might be usefully inquired in this field are provided.