Research seminar on knowlege hiding, motivational climates and creativity @ BI May 15, 2012
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Today, we (that is Matej Černe, Christina Nerstad, and Anders Dysvik) held a research seminar on an article that we will present at the Academy of Management Conference 2012, Boston, MA. It has also been chosen for the publication in Best paper conference proceedings. Its’ central idea is that knowledge hiding of an individual creates a so-called distrust loop which in turn damages one’s self creativity (not just creativity of coworkers). And performance climate just makes things worse (to put it in simple terms). However, that there is a cure for that called a mastery climate – a climate that promotes development, growth and collaboration among colleagues. Great discussions and most helpful comments from the colleagues from Department of Leadership and Organisational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School.
Organizational Network Analysis @ BI Norwegian Business School April 29, 2012
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I am spending a most productive month at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, where I taught Organizational network analysis at Master of Management and am about to co-teach Organizational network analysis workshop at the PhD level (together with prof. dr.Amir Sasson). In addition, together with my colleagues from the Department of Leadership and Organisational Behavior, we have several promising research activities in the pipeline. Ha det! (Norwegian for bye-bye 
).
Vabljeni na delavnico o obvladovanju časa! March 28, 2012
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12. aprila 2012 na CPOEF ponujava s kolegico doc.dr. Sandro Penger delavnico Spretnosti in tehnike obvladovanja časa, ki se je preteklih letih izkazala za precejšnjo uspešnico. Vabljeni, da se je udeležite!
AoM Best Conference Proceedings March 23, 2012
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in conferences, creativity, knowledge management.Tags: AoM meeting 2012, Christina Nerstad, creativity, knowledge hiding, organizational climate, Škerlavaj Miha, Černe Matej
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I am really proud to announce that we received a prestigious Best Conference Proceedings Award for the Academy of Management Meeting, 2012, Boston (MA, USA). Reviewers have ranked the paper Černe, M., Nerstad, C., Škerlavaj, M. “Don’t come around here no more: Knowledge hiding, perceived motivational climate, and creativity” to be amongst the best in the OB Division. We provocatively suggest and prove that knowledge hiding not only damages organizations, but also individuals who hide knowledge themselves. In addition, we offer a remedy for that. The negative effect of knowledge hiding on creativity can be mitigated with fostering appropriate organizational climate.
FELU Award for Research Achievements in 2010 December 15, 2011
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in awards, learning networks, social network analysis for management.Tags: 2010, exponential random graph modeling, Journal of Information Technology, knowledge-intensive company, learning networks, longitudinal, social network analysis
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Faculty of Economics @ University of Ljubljana awarded my colleagues and myself for the second time in the last three years with an award for research achievements. This time we got second prize for the paper Škerlavaj, M., Dimovski, V., & Desouza, K. (2010): Patterns and Structures of Intra-Organizational Learning Networks Within a Knowledge-Intensive Organization, Journal of Information Technology, 25(2):189-204.
The abstract. This paper employs the network perspective to study patterns and structures of intra-organizational learning networks. The theoretical background draws from cognitive theories, theories of homophily and proximity, theories of social exchange, the theory of generalized exchange, small-worlds theory, and social process theory. The levels of analysis applied are actor, dyadic, triadic, and global. Confirmatory social network analysis (exponential random graph modeling) was employed for data analysis. Findings suggest: (1) central actors in the learning network are experienced and hold senior positions in the organizational hierarchy; (2) evidence of homophily (in terms of gender, tenure, and hierarchical level relations) and proximity (in terms of geographical and departmental distances) in learning relationships; (3) learning relationships are non-reciprocal; and (4) transitivity and high local clustering with sparse inter-cluster ties are significant for intra-organizational learning networks.
Some pics from the event are available at the following link.
Two conference papers on management innovation December 1, 2011
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A colleague, mag. Matej Černe just returned from EURAM Mini-Conference on Management Innovation held in Rotterdam, November 24 – 25, 2011, where he presented two of our papers:
- ČERNE, Matej, JAKLIČ, Marko, ŠKERLAVAJ, Miha. Management innovation enters the game : re-considering the link between technological innovation and financial performance. In: Management innovation : a journey into the core of research and management : conference book. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 2011, pp. 49.
- ČERNE, Matej, JAKLIČ, Marko, ŠKERLAVAJ, Miha. Management innovation in focus : the role of knowledge exchange, organizational size, and IT system development. In: Management innovation : a journey into the core of research and management : conference book. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 2011, pp. 63.
In good company: this time among SSRN top 3 November 22, 2011
Posted by mihaskerlavaj in awards, journal.Tags: ESWA, innovative culture, Lee, organizational learning culture, Song, South Korea, Škerlavaj
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Good news, an article Skerlavaj, Miha, Song, Ji Hoon and Lee, Youngmin (2010), Organizational Learning Culture, Innovative Culture and Innovations in South Korean Firms (March 24, 2010). Expert Systems with Applications, seems to spark a significant amount of interest among colleagues worldwide and was ranked 3rd at the Top 10 downloaded list within the Innovation and Organisational Behavior category.
EJIM publication on organizational learning culture in Macedonian companies September 21, 2011
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Together with our Macedonian colleagues, we published ŠKERLAVAJ, Miha, ČERNE, Matej, KEKENOVSKI, Ljubomir, TEVDOVSKI, Dragan, TRPKOVA, Marija (2011). The organisational learning culture and organisational performance in Macedonian companies. European journal of international management, 5(6): 574-601.
The purpose of the paper is to construct, present and test a model that describes the effect of organisational learning culture on organisational
performance improvement. To this end, we use data of 202 Macedonian companies and empirically test the model via structural equation modelling.
We found that organisational learning culture has a direct and relatively strong impact on non-financial performance from the employee, customer and
supplier perspective. A direct but relatively smaller effect can be noticed on the financial performance. Managers need to be aware that such norms and values
that ascribe high importance to information acquisition, distribution and interpretation need to be developed in order to achieve higher levels of
organisational performance. The paper contributes to the generalisation of a research model previously tested in more-developed economies based on the
data gathered in Macedonia, a developing country in transition.
The study builds upon our previous awarded and cited paper in International Journal of Production Economics (2007) and aims to generalize by controlling for a different setting of national culture as well as stage of economic development.
Adjunct position at BI Norwegian Business School August 24, 2011
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I am proud to announce that as of June 2011 I hold an Adjunct Associate Professor position at BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour in Oslo, Norway.
