题　目：The Role of Knowledge in Individual- And Firm-Level Performance

嘉　宾：Ozer, 教授, 香港城市大学

主　持：路琳, 教授, 上海交通大学

时　间：2025年05月14日（周三）15:15-16:45

地　点：上海交通大学 徐汇校区安泰楼B207室

内容简介:

Knowledge plays an important role at every level of business research. While employees at the individual level look for new knowledge from their coworkers to enhance their performance, companies at the firm level reach out to other organizations to access additional knowledge resources to improve their performance. However, despite all the efforts to enhance knowledge utilization, past research has also noted the underutilization of shared knowledge. In this presentation, I would like to focus on two essays about the relationship between knowledge and individual- and firm-level performance.

AN INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL ESSAY: At the individual level, we study how the knowledge that employees receive from their coworkers impacts their performance. The results of an empirical study with software developers indicated that employees benefited from the knowledge that they received from their coworkers. Moreover, this relationship was stronger when the employees had high rather than low task autonomy, when they had high- rather than low-quality social exchanges with their supervisors, and when the firms used formal knowledge utilization processes.

A FIRM-LEVEL ESSAY: At the firm level, we focus on how the knowledge that firms are exposed to from their geographic and network ties with other firms relates to their innovation performance. Our empirical study with manufacturing firms in China showed that while geographic ties enhanced firms’ exploitative product innovation, they hindered their exploratory product innovation. Moreover, the results showed that focal firms’ network ties with their suppliers and buyers played significant moderating roles in these relationships.

演讲人简介：

Professor Muammer Ozer is Director of Doctor of Business Administration program (DBA) in the College of Business (CB) of the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). The DBA program is one of the most prestigious and recognized DBA programs in the world and is designed for senior executives who are interested in engaging in rigorous business research with practical and societal impacts.

He is a professor of management. He holds BS and MS degrees in Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, an MBA degree from the Saint Louis University, and a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a graduate of an executive education program at Harvard Business School.

His research focuses on the strategies, behaviors, and performance of individuals, teams, and firms within the context of innovation and technology management, information technology, and international business. He was the editor of a highly acclaimed special journal issue about New Product Development in Asia. His research publications have appeared in such leading international journals as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Organization Studies, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal, among many others.

He is the winner of the 2015 City University of Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Award. He is also the winner of the 2009 City University of Hong Kong College of Business Research Excellence Award as well as the 2012 City University of Hong Kong College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. He has also received numerous research grants from various prominent institutions such as the Institute for Industrial Competitiveness and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSF-CHINA KEY).

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