Impact of knowledge brokering on performance heterogeneity among business models

Nair, Sujith; Nisar, Arsalan; Palacios, Miguel; Ruíz, Felipe

doi:10.1108/00251741211266732

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“…Sujith et al (2012) argue that firms' performance differences could accrue from knowledge brokering capability of TMT. Knowledge brokering has been defined as systematic approaches to seek extended ideas from people in a variety of industries, disciplines, and contexts and then combining the resulting lesson in a new way (Davidson & Billington, 2010).…”

Section: Effects Of Generic Strategies On Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, Bharadwaj et al (1993) cited in Sujith et al (2012) suggest that the firm performance differences could be explained by the development of particular resources and capabilities that the firm possesses that are not available in the competitors. Likewise, Thomas and William (2004) suggested that the ability to impact a cost leadership, differentiation, or focus strategies is dependent on firm's ability to develop specific set of competitive methods.…”

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Top Management Team Demographic Diversities, Generic Strategy and Firm Performance in Marketing Social Research Association (MSRA) in Kenya

Yohannes¹,

Ayako²

2016

AFA

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This study investigated the relationship between Top Management Team (TMT) demographic diversities and firm performance using generic strategies as intervening variable in the Marketing and Social Research Association (MSRA) firms in Kenya. First, the relationship between TMT characteristics diversities and generic strategy was analyzed. Second, the link between generic strategy and firm performance was estimated. Mixed methods research design was used to critically investigate the relationship between the latent exogenous and endogenous variables of this study. The mixed research design used in this study was triangulation design, which was mainly transformation design model. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling analysis, using IBM SPSS AMOS version 21. The study found out that the homogenous demographic diversities among the top management team members had statistically significant effect on cost leadership strategy (p = 0.012). Besides, cost leadership strategy showed a statistically significant positive relationship on firm performance (p = 0.005). The findings of this study implied that organizations need to know and develop the best composition of top management team based on their demographic diversities in relation to the environment. Besides, the organizations need to empower the TMT members using monetary and nonmonetary incentives to further improve performance. Last but not least, the compositions of TMT in marketing research firms need to embrace gender diversity.

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Section: Effects Of Generic Strategies On Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Generic Strategies On Firm Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Top Management Team Demographic Diversities, Generic Strategy and Firm Performance in Marketing Social Research Association (MSRA) in Kenya

Yohannes¹,

Ayako²

2016

AFA

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“…In their definition of business models, Chesbrough and Rosenbloom (2002) emphasize the connections that a business model provides between a firm's potential and the realization of economic value. Business models have a profound influence on firm performance heterogeneity among intra-industry firms (Afuah & Tucci, 2001;Nair et al, 2012;Zott & Amit, 2008) as they 'try to find new ways of doing business that will disrupt an industry's existing competitive rules, leading to the development of new business models' (Ireland, The Service Industries Journal Hitt, Camp, & Sexton, 2001). Business model innovation affects the entire organization (Amit & Zott, 2001) unlike normal business changes, which are intended to improve the strategic or operational efficiency of the firm.…”

Section: Business Model Innovation and Firm Competenciesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Initially developed in the field of manufacturing and dubbed agility (D'Aveni & Gunther, 1994;Yusuf, Sarhadi, & Gunasekaran, 1999), the concept of flexibility (Carlsson, 1989) has recently attracted the attention of service management scholars as well (Aranda, 2003;Arias-Aranda, Bustinza, & Barrales-Molina, 2011;Karmarkar, 2004;Menor & Mason, 2001). Service firms need to adapt rapidly to changing global environments, innovating their business models to react to new challenges and market opportunities (Nair, Nisar, Palacios, & Ruiz, 2012;Wright, Snell, & Dyer, 2005). While the importance of flexibility (Anand & Ward, 2004;Narasimhan, Swink, & Kim, 2006) and its role in business model innovation (Johnson, Christensen, & Kagermann, 2008;Zott, Amit, & Massa, 2011) is widely recognized in the literature, the core competence strategies required for the dynamic capability of flexibility to enable business model innovation have not gained much attention.…”

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Service orientation: effectuating business model innovation

Nair

Paulose

Palacios

et al. 2013

The Service Industries Journal

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The research argues for the need to correctly identify and strengthen the core competencies of a firm, especially relevant in the service-oriented firm context where value creation requires resourceful and efficient provision of service. This study of 17 airlines from Asia, Europe, and Oceania reveals a picture of inconsistencies in the core competence strategy of airlines. It brings out the situation in which firms believe and project that they are service oriented, but fail to have the core competence strategies of a service firm or the business model innovations that lead to service orientation, thus leading to performance heterogeneity among intraindustry firms having similar business models. This paper proposes that seemingly similar business models differ in performance due to their service orientation and identification of the core competence serves as both the primary requirement for business model innovation and a measuring indicator of service orientation. The research on the airline industry advances the understanding of how core competence strategy and business model innovation constructs behave in the service firms' effort to gain sustainable competitive advantage.

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“…Hargadon, 2002;Hargadon and Sutton, 2000;Nair et al, 2012 Knowledge brokering refers to the process of bridging disconnected ideas from at least two distant organizations. Simultaneously it involves some form of transformation of these ideas, into the new context (Bergenholtz, 2011).…”

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Evaluation units as knowledge brokers: Testing and calibrating an innovative framework

Olejniczak

Raimondo

Kupiec³

2016

Evaluation

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Evaluation units, located within public institutions, are important actors responsible for the production and dissemination of evaluative knowledge in complex programming and institutional settings. The current evaluation literature does not adequately explain their role in fostering better evaluation use. The article offers an empirically tested framework for the analysis of the role of evaluation units as knowledge brokers. It is based on a systematic, interdisciplinary literature review and empirical research on evaluation units in Poland within the context of the European Union Cohesion Policy, with complementary evidence from the US federal government and international organizations. In the proposed framework, evaluation units are to perform six types of brokering activities: identifying knowledge users' needs, acquiring credible knowledge, feeding it to users, building networks between producers and users, accumulating knowledge over time and promoting an evidence-based culture. This framework transforms evaluation units from mere buyers of expertise and producers of isolated reports into animators of reflexive social learning that steer streams of knowledge to decision makers.

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Impact of knowledge brokering on performance heterogeneity among business models

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Cited by 32 publications

References 39 publications

Top Management Team Demographic Diversities, Generic Strategy and Firm Performance in Marketing Social Research Association (MSRA) in Kenya

Top Management Team Demographic Diversities, Generic Strategy and Firm Performance in Marketing Social Research Association (MSRA) in Kenya

Service orientation: effectuating business model innovation

Evaluation units as knowledge brokers: Testing and calibrating an innovative framework

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