Analysing and classifying knowledge management publications – a proposed classification scheme

Nora Fteimi is based at Department of Information Systems, University of Passau, Passau, Germany. She completed her Diploma in Information Systems at the University of Bamberg – Germany. In 2016 she successfully completed her PhD thesis on knowledge management in economic sciences at the University of Passau – Germany, where she is currently working as an assistant professor at the Chair of Information Systems. She teaches courses on knowledge and data management as well as on research methods. Her fields of research and interest are knowledge management, business analytics, and big data. Particularly, her focus is on topics in the areas of text analytics and privacy issues in the context of big data.

Franz Lehner is based at Department of Information Systems, University of Passau, Passau, Germany. He has been assistant at the Institute for Organizational Research at the University of Linz, Austria, since 1986. Before this he gathered experience in the field of EDP as head of the educational centre at a software house and as an independent consultant. From 1992 to 1994 he was professor for business administration and information management (MIS) at the Koblenz School of Corporate Management (WHU, Germany). After that a short period as founding president of the Danube-University at Krems, which is a centre for postgraduate studies in Austria, he became a full professor for Information Systems in 1996 at the University of Regensburg. In 2004 he accepted a call to the University of Passau where he now holds the Chair of Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) since April 2004. His research is focusing on information, IT and knowledge management and he is one of the founders of the International Association of Knowledge Management (IAKM).