A Research On The Knowledge Innovation Of Enterprises

Knowledge has been the most important strategic resource in the knowledge economy times, and the knowledge innovation is the main way to acquire competitive advantages in this new era. The thesis make integrative use of management theories, economics, demotics, psychology, systematology and information science to systematically study the following topics: the principle of knowledge innovation in the enterprises, the interaction between the knowledge innovation and the competitive advantages, the relationships between the knowledge innovation and the organizational structure, the interaction between the enterprise culture and the human resource management. The thesis also makes a study on the knowledge strategic alliance between the enterprises and other organizations. A couple of new conceptions, new analytical models and new research techniques have been put forward. The research work include the following five parts:(1) Research on the principles of the knowledge innovation and the enterprise competitive advantage. This part defines the basic concepts such as data, information and knowledge, and illustrates the differences and relations between the personal knowledge and the enterprise, and provides 5 models in innovation. This article also describes the mutual transformation of spiraling knowledge innovation process from personal knowledge to organizational knowledge and from explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge. The first part also analysis the competitive advantages of enterprises in the view of knowledge resource economics. After review the history of the competitiveness strategy theory, the author analysis the acquisition and possessing of particular advantages of enterprises. The author makes clear the relationships between core knowledge, core competitiveness, competitive advantage and knowledge innovation. In the end, the author makes an initial discussion on how to acquire sustainable competitive advantage by knowledge innovation.(2) Making a discussion on the interaction between the knowledge innovation and the organizational structure. Firstly, the author demonstrates the inevitable trend of the reform of the organization structure in the new economy by an abstract model. Secondly, the author analyzes the influence of different type of organizational structure on the knowledge innovation. In the end, the authordescribes the characteristics of the organizational structure suitable for the knowledge innovation.(3) Discussing the relationship between the enterprise culture and the knowledge innovation. Firstly, the author defines the concepts of culture and enterprise culture. Secondly, the author addresses the influence of the enterprise culture, especially the sub-culture in the organization on the knowledge innovation process. Based on this address, the author puts forward a couple of operational advices on establishing knowledge leading culture enterprise. Thirdly, the author analyses how the negative aspects in Chinese traditional culture influence the knowledge innovation process with Hofstente's four dimensions of the nationality culture.(4) Research on the relationship between the human resource management and knowledge innovation. Human resource is the basic element in the knowledge innovation process. After explaining the importance of the HR in knowledge innovation, the author gives the concepts and characteristics of the knowledge workers and the way to hire and select them. Then, the author analyzes the common rules in motivating and restricting the knowledge workers based on Masiluo's Needs theory to find out the basic principles and approaches on how to motivate knowledge workers. In the last section of this part, the author discusses the mechanism guarantees in HRM of the knowledge innovation enterprises.(5) Case study. The author analyzes the knowledge innovation process and experiences of four common recommend knowledge innovation enterprises in China. All of the four enterprises have their own characteristics with somethi...