Knowledge management, a resource-based perspective: scale development and cross validation.

• Other Authors: Chu, Maggie Ying-ying.
• Format: Others
• Language: English; Chinese
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Knowledge management
• Online Access: http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892068; http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-324807

Maggie Chu Ying-ying. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89). === Abstracts in English and Chinese. === Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction === Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 === Chapter 1.2 --- Research Objective --- p.4 === Chapter 1.3 --- Outline of This Study --- p.4 === Chapter Chapter 2 --- Backgrounds and Previous Research === Chapter 2.1 --- The Resource-based View and the Environmental Models --- p.5 === Chapter 2.2 --- The Resource-based View and Knowledge --- p.6 === Chapter Chapter 3 --- Conceptualization of KM === Chapter 3.1 --- Knowledge --- p.8 === Chapter 3.2 --- Knowledge Management --- p.11 === Chapter 3.2.1 --- Technological Perspective --- p.11 === Chapter 3.2.2 --- Human Perspective --- p.12 === Chapter 3.2.3 --- Process-oriented Perspective --- p.13 === Chapter 3.2.4 --- Intellectual Capital Perspective --- p.14 === Chapter 3.2.5 --- "Confluence of Definitions and the Components of KM," --- p.15 === Chapter 3.3 --- Components of KM --- p.16 === Chapter 3.3.1 --- Organization Culture --- p.21 === Chapter 3.3.2 --- Structural Capital --- p.22 === Chapter 3.3.3 --- Human Resource --- p.23 === Chapter 3.3.4 --- Social Capital --- p.24 === Chapter 3.3.5 --- Knowledge Acquisition --- p.25 === Chapter 3.3.6 --- Knowledge Dissemination --- p.26 === Chapter 3.3.7 --- Knowledge Application --- p.27 === Chapter Chapter 4 --- Research Methodology === Chapter 4.1 --- Overview --- p.28 === Chapter 4.2 --- Exploratory versus Confirmatory Factor Analysis --- p.28 === Chapter 4.3 --- Item Generation and Content Validity --- p.29 === Chapter 4.4 --- Pilot Study --- p.30 === Chapter 4.5 --- Main Study --- p.34 === Chapter 4.5.1 --- Sample and Data Collection --- p.34 === Chapter 4.5.2 --- Scale Calibration and Validation --- p.41 === Chapter 4.5.2.1 --- Dimensionality Assessment --- p.41 === Chapter 4.5.2.2 --- Reliability Assessment --- p.47 === Chapter 4.5.2.3 --- Validity Assessment --- p.48 === Chapter 4.5.2.3.1 --- "Convergent Validity," --- p.48 === Chapter 4.5.2.3.2 --- Discriminant Validity --- p.52 === Chapter 4.5.2.3.3 --- Nomological Validity --- p.53 === Chapter 4.5.2.3.4 --- "Cross-validation," --- p.56 === Chapter 4.6. --- Comparison across Industries --- p.59 === Chapter 4.6.1 --- Impact of KM on Business Performance --- p.59 === Chapter 4.6.2 --- Level of KM exhibited across Industries --- p.67 === Chapter 4.6.3 --- The Relative Importance of KM Components --- p.69 === Chapter Chapter 5 --- Discussion === Chapter 5.1 --- Academic Contributions --- p.70 === Chapter 5.2 --- Managerial Implications --- p.72 === Chapter 5.3 --- Limitations and Future Research --- p.74 === Appendix === Chapter A. --- Constitutive Definitions and Operative Definitions of each Dimension of KM --- p.76 === Chapter B. --- (a) Items used in Pilot Study --- p.77 === (b) Items of the Final Scales --- p.79 === References --- p.80