...André de Waal; Esther Mollema Purpose Many organizations emerge from a crisis in a weak position because they focused too much on cost reductions. However, a review of past crises reveals that there are always organizations that seize the opportunities offered by crises. During difficult times...

...Neda Khatibian; Tahmoores Hasan gholoi pour; Hasan Abedi Jafari Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for measuring knowledge management maturity level in organizations. Design/methodology/approach This paper defines and extracts effective factors and indicators on knowledge...

... security and the work of organized criminal syndicates. The topics covered will be relevant to both academic researchers and practising managers. Design/methodology/approach The work is based on a review of a wide literature and various established and futuristic concerns have been highlighted...

...Paul Rogers; Marcia Blenko Purpose To demonstrate that high performance in organizations results from their being decision‐driven. Design/methodology/approach Executives from 365 companies in seven countries were surveyed. More than 40 high‐performance companies were then interviewed. Industry...

.... KM is presently limited because the nature of knowledge makes it difficult to actually “manage.” Instead, the field is moving toward an organic form of management focusing on three main concepts: “e‐organizations” that automatically integrate all information and knowledge, “self‐organizing systems...