چكيده به لاتين
Abstract
Nowadays, the most advanced high-tech and multinational corporations have been transforming their traditionally hierarchical organizations into flatter, faster, more flexible, and more horizontally integrated structures based on inter-organizational groupings such as teams, communities, and networks. This emerging change in inter-organizational grouping forms is more apparent in project-based organizations (PBO) because they are the optimal organizational structures to incorporate knowledge both within and outside the company and to generate innovative business models for new products and services. Along with the development of PBOs, the concept of knowledge management (KM) and its significant impact on competitiveness and performance through the governance of KM-related efforts has become the focal point of study for many researchers. Accordingly, while different types of formal and informal interactions are fundamental to knowledge integration and sharing in organizations, the concept of knowledge grouping forms is discussed by many researchers. Thus, the aim of this research is (1) to empirically evaluate the impact of inter-organizational groupings on PBO’s performance, (2) to address the critical selection of knowledge network development methodology and to propose a holistic framework for selecting an appropriate methodology, and finally (3) to address designing and implementing Knowledge networks (KN) based on organizational cybernetics as a systems approach that benefits from the Viable System Model (VSM) and the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK). A mixed research method (quantitative and qualitative) is utilized in order to answer research questions. Results depict that (1) there is a positive and direct effects from KNs to PBO’s performance, (2) a holistic framework was determined by including different aspects of a KN such as network perspectives, tools and techniques, objectives, characteristics, capabilities, and approaches, and (3) a systemic framework is introduced for designing KN in PBOs based on organizational cybernetics, the VSM, and PMBOK.
Keywords: Viable knowledge network design; Pharmaceutical industry; Project-oriented organizations; The Viable Systems Model; Organizational Cybernetics; Fractal model; Organizational performance
