Understanding one aspect of the knowledge leakage concept among SMEs: people

Mohamed, Souad; Coles, Rhoda; Mynors, Diane J.; Chan, Paul; Grantham, Andrew; Walsh, Kathryn

doi:10.1504/ijeb.2007.012974

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“…In the securing of these information-based IC components, all three aspects of information security apply: confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information (Desouza, 2006). In the first place, the organization has to retain control over the extent of IC report disclosures (Baughn et al, 1997;Mohamed et al, 2006;Laperche, 2018), in much the same way as it controls disclosure of its other information assets. This is arguably a confidentiality concern.…”

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How does intellectual capital align with cyber security?

Renaud

Solms

2019

JIC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to position the preservation and protection of intellectual capital as a cyber security concern. The paper outlines the security requirements of intellectual capital to help boards of directors (BoDs) and executive management teams to understand their responsibilities and accountabilities in this respect. Design/methodology/approach The research methodology is desk research. In other words, we gathered facts and existing research publications that helped us to define key terms, to formulate arguments to convince BoDs of the need to secure their intellectual capital and to outline actions to be taken by BoDs to do so. Findings Intellectual capital, as a valuable business resource, is related to information, knowledge and cyber security. Hence, preservation thereof is also related to cyber security governance and merits attention from BoDs. Research limitations/implications This paper clarifies BoDs intellectual capital governance responsibilities, which encompass information, knowledge and cyber security governance. Practical implications The authors hope that BoDs will benefit from the clarifications, and especially from the positioning of intellectual capital in cyber space. Social implications If BoDs know how to embrace their intellectual capital governance responsibilities, this will help to ensure that such intellectual capital is preserved and secured. Originality/value This paper extends a previous paper published by Von Solms and Von Solms, which clarified the key terms of information and cyber security, and the governance thereof. The originality and value is the focus on the securing of intellectual capital, a topic that has not yet received a great deal of attention from security researchers.

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Section: Step 2: Governing Ic Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

How does intellectual capital align with cyber security?

Renaud

Solms

2019

JIC

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“…A case study was conducted on knowledge leakage by people in SMEs (Mohamed et al, 2006). They found that when employees migrate from one company to another, there is a high possibility that knowledge acquired from the former company may be leaked to another.…”

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“…Information/Knowledge leakage triggered by organisational incentives (Zhang, 2011;Anand and Goyal, 2009;Bonte and Wiethaus 2007;Harhoff et al, 2003;Lee, 2002) Information/Knowledge leakage triggered by individual incentives (Faisal et al, 2007) Information/Knowledge leakage through outsourcing/joint-venture/sub-contracting activities (Faisal et al, 2007;Hoecht and Trott, 2006a;Hoecht and Trott, 2006b) Information/Knowledge leakage arising from employee movement/people interaction (Mohamed et al, 2006;Kovach et al, 2004) From the literature, we identified that both academics and practitioners paid little attention to information and knowledge leakage management. IKL may represent a major loss to any firm if it is not managed properly.…”

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Information and Knowledge Leakage in Supply Chain

2015

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Abstract:The current world of post industrial value generation sees companies increasingly analyzing their internal operations against their external organizations to identify supply/demand fluctuations along the supply chain. Within these integrated relationships between internal and external parties in the supply chain, knowledge and information have become very important production resources. The existence and success of an increasing number of organizations strongly depend on their capabilities to utilize knowledge and information for profit generation. By managing more efficient information sharing, the volume of company confidential information passing through the supply chain increases, and this brings about more incidences of knowledge leakage and information leakage. A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2014 shows information security spending over the next 12 months would increase 60.27 percent in Asia and 48.98 percent in all regions. This emphasizes the importance of information privacy and therefore the necessity to study the information and knowledge leakage in integrated supply chain. The objectives of this study are to investigate the factors triggering information and knowledge leakage and create a mitigation framework to soften the impact of leakages on performance. The above objectives will be met by formulating and examining several hypotheses of a conceptualized information leakage (IL) and knowledge leakage (KL) framework. A case study derived from a structured interview is adopted as a methodology in this research. As a result, this paper contributes a novel theoretical model that characterizes information and knowledge leakage in an integrated supply chain. Therefore, it also adds new knowledge of managing information and knowledge leakage to supply chain management.

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“…Business knowledge and experience characteristically reside only in individuals' minds, and thus, the transfer of knowledge and experience explicitly to business processes is very difficult. However, Mohamed, Mynors, Grantham, Walsh, and Chan (2006) argue that when employees change positions, move to new organizations, or retire, their knowledge certainly leaves with them, causing a permanent void in an organization (Bohn, 1994). Hence, organizational knowledge base exteriorizes the business process mechanism, which influences performance by retaining relevant knowledge and experience.…”

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How knowledge sharing and business process contribute to organizational performance: Using the fsQCA approach

Oyemomi

Liu

Neaga

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Journal of Business Research

118

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The purpose of this research is to carry out a comparative analysis of organizational factors that facilitate knowledge sharing and business process, ultimately contributing to the improvement of organizational performance. The literature considers knowledge sharing a key factor for driving innovation as well as the organization's business performance, as both explicit and tacit knowledge sharing promotes a novel robust approach for business-knowledge process. This research explores the application of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis as a set-theoretic comparative analysis approach to investigate the relationships between knowledge sharing, business process, and organizational performance through the identification of key organizational operation factors. Based on empirical data collected from 28 cases, the analysis results demonstrate the important role of organizational operation factors in knowledge sharing and business-knowledge process, which directly contribute to the improvement of organizational performance.

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Understanding one aspect of the knowledge leakage concept among SMEs: people

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

How does intellectual capital align with cyber security?

How does intellectual capital align with cyber security?

Information and Knowledge Leakage in Supply Chain

How knowledge sharing and business process contribute to organizational performance: Using the fsQCA approach

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