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Micro-foundations and Governance Instruments

This stream seeks to identify the predictors of the sourcing, sharing, transfer, integration, and creation of knowledge within firms and between firms (and other actors). It does so in terms of theorizing and empirically analyzing 1) the individual level foundations of these processes (in terms of the motivation, opportunity and ability to, e.g., share knowledge) and 2) how organizational design and HRM practices can influence knowledge processes to the benefit of the firm.

Recently, this stream has also embraced the role of space (e.g., how office space is structured) as a predictor of knowledge processes. Research in this stream has been partly financed by a major grant by the Danish Social Science Research Council. Empirically, it involves collaboration with major Danish companies like Cowi, MAN Diesel, NNIT, Rambøll and others, e.g., implementing survey instruments in these firms.

SMG Participants in research stream

Professor Nicolai Foss
Professor Torben Pedersen
Associate Professor Dana Minbaeva
Associate Professor Bo B. Nielsen
Associate Professor Peter Holdt Christensen
Assistant Professor Larissa Rabbiosi
Assistant Professor Mia Reinholt

Recent Results/Representative Publications

Reinholt M., T. Pedersen and N. J Foss. 2011. Why a Central Network Position Isn’t Enough: the Moderating Roles of Motivation and Ability for Knowledge Sharing in Employee Networks . Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming).

Minbaeva D., K. Mäkelä and L. Rabbiosi. HRM system outcomes and knowledge sharing: The mediating effect of individual motivation and behaviors. Human Resource Management (forthcoming).

Foss, N.J., K. Laursen and T. Pedersen. 2011. Linking Customer Interaction and Innovation: The Mediating Role of New Organizational Practices . Organization Science, 22: 980-999.

Gooderham, P., D. Minbaeva and T. Pedersen. 2011. Governance Mechanisms for the Promotion of Social Capital for Knowledge Transfer in Multinational Corporations . Journal of Management Studies, 48: 123-150

Lindenberg, S. and N.J. Foss. 2011. Managing Motivation for Joint Production: The Role of Goal Framing and Governance Mechanisms . Academy of Management Review 36: 500-525.

Foss, N.J., D. Minbaeva, M. Reinholt, and T. Pedersen. 2009. Encouraging Knowledge Sharing Among Employees: How Job Design Matters . Human Resource Management 48: 871-893.

Nielsen, B.B. and S. Michailova. 2007. Knowledge Management Systems in Multinational Corporations: Typology and Transitions, Long Range Planning, 40(3): 314-340.

Sidst opdateret af Pia Elmegård 28.12.2011