Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chains in a Developing Field: Case Natural Products

Markus Heikkilä, Jyri Vilko

2025

Abstract

Collaboration networks allow different actors inside the industry to exchange knowledge. The knowledge exchange plays an important role in innovation and industry development. Companies join collaboration networks to gain competitive advantages and to gather knowledge from other network members. Acquired knowledge can support innovation without requiring additional investments from the companies. The Finnish natural product sector is an immature industry field where the knowledge exchange inside the collaboration networks is not identified. The study identifies and presents the different collaboration networks and the explicit and tacit knowledge flow between the actors. We found that collaboration between the actors is common and there are both formal and informal networks where the knowledge is exchanged. However, informal networks are more popular, and the exchanged knowledge is mostly in a tacit format. This reflects the underdevelopment of the sectors, characterized by the informality of its network and the reliance on tacit knowledge.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Heikkilä M. and Vilko J. (2025). Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chains in a Developing Field: Case Natural Products. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-749-8, SciTePress, pages 136-146. DOI: 10.5220/0013475500003929

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis25,
author={Markus Heikkilä and Jyri Vilko},
title={Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chains in a Developing Field: Case Natural Products},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS},
year={2025},
pages={136-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013475500003929},
isbn={978-989-758-749-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS
TI - Knowledge Management in Sustainable Supply Chains in a Developing Field: Case Natural Products
SN - 978-989-758-749-8
AU - Heikkilä M.
AU - Vilko J.
PY - 2025
SP - 136
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0013475500003929
PB - SciTePress