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Exploring “culturalization” in rural entrepreneurial context through content analysis
Author(s) -
Magliacani Michela,
Madeo Elena
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
knowledge and process management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1099-1441
pISSN - 1092-4604
DOI - 10.1002/kpm.1567
Subject(s) - knowledge management , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , conceptual model , competitive advantage , business , computer science , marketing , paleontology , database , biology , operating system
Knowledge is a critical success factor for achieving a competitive advantage. A broad literature on organizational knowledge process has been provided, but investigations on knowledge creation beyond organizational boundaries are still lacking. This is the reason why the study explores, through the qualitative content analysis, the impact of the rural entrepreneurial context in a regional network project. The text processing and the words frequency explain how the spaces of interaction within the rural pilot cluster were too small, in terms of shared words, for activating a learning process of shared knowledge. The conceptual model that come out from the case study could be grounded to understand the “culturalization” of interorganizational knowledge in other cultural context.