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Managing Research in Social Enterprise Survey: Have Your Say
13 February 2012
Westminster Business School is researching how social enterprises manage their organisational and corporate knowledge and what benefits it brings.Westminster Business School is researching how social enterprises manage their organisational and corporate knowledge and what benefits it brings.
The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. All responses will be combined and reported in aggregate form, and results will not be linked back to any individual or organisation participating without their permission.
Enter survey here but if you experience any problems accessing the survey, please copy and paste the following text into the address bar of your internet browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/kmse
The deadline for completion is 1700 on the 30th March 2012
If you have any further questions about the survey, or would like to obtain a copy of an abstracted report, please contact me at m.granados@westminster.ac.uk
Thank you in advance for your help with this research.
About the Researcher:
Maria Granados is a visiting lecturer from Colombia currently attending the University of Westminster. She originally has a background in industrial engineering and is currently undertaking further research into Knowledge Management within Social Enterprises.
Under the growing pressures of complexity and globalisation, enterprises that can efficiently capture the knowledge embedded in their organisations and distribute it to their operations, productions and services, will have a competitive, cost and performance advantage over their competitors. However, there is still a lack of empirical evidence especially from small businesses and social economy organisations that have organic structures and cultures that may foster knowledge capabilities and innovation. In order to fulfil this gap in the literature, this research will identify how Social Enterprises can improve their performance and achieve their economic, social and environmental objectives, by managing effectively their knowledge. To do so, this research considers a theoretical model that explores organisational characteristics and knowledge activities within Social Enterprises that can develop Knowledge Management capabilities. A mixed methods research design is been undertaking with a quantitative phase that has already 250 responses from senior members of Social Enterprises in UK to a survey about their current KM activities. However, more responses to this survey would assure more representative findings. This would be followed by a qualitative phase based on interview and case studies.