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Do mistakes acceptance foster innovation? Polish and US cross-country study of tacit knowledge sharing in IT
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Abstract Purpose – This study aims to understand and compare how the mechanism of innovative processes in the information technology (IT) industry – the most innovative industry worldwide – is shaped in Poland and the USA in terms of tacit knowledge awareness and sharing driven by a culture of knowledge and learning, composed of a learning climate and mistake acceptance. Design/methodology/approach – Study samples were drawn from the IT industry in Poland (n = 350) and the USA (n = 370) and analyzed using the structural equation modeling method. Findings – True learning derives from mistake acceptance. As a result of a risk-taking attitude and critical thinking, the IT industry in the USA is consistently innovation-oriented. Specifically, external innovations are highly correlated with internal innovations. Moreover, a knowledge culture supports a learning culture via a learning climate. A learning climate is an important facilitator for learning from mistakes. Originality/value – This study revealed that a high level of mistake acceptance stimulates a risk-taking an attitude that offers a high level of tacit knowledge awareness as a result of critical thinking, but critical thinking without readiness to take a risk is useless for tacit knowledge capturing.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Journal of Knowledge Management
no. 25,
pages 105 - 128,
ISSN: 1367-3270 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Bibliographic description:
- Kucharska W.: Do mistakes acceptance foster innovation? Polish and US cross-country study of tacit knowledge sharing in IT// Journal of Knowledge Management -Vol. 25,iss. 11 (2021), s.105-128
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1108/jkm-12-2020-0922
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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