.... In the management literature, when analysing the firm/environment relationship various well-known perspectives have de facto embedded determinism. As their main linking pin, these perspectives have substantially considered organizational adaptation as a process in which firms are object...

... management (KM) and organization strategy are both important to the success of an organization. This study aims to assess the research needs of their interrelationship. The research is based on a collection of over 200 interviews of KM worldwide experts. Their inputs have been categorized based...

...Zilia Iskoujina; Joanne Roberts Purpose – This paper aims to add to the understanding of knowledge sharing in online communities through an investigation of the relationship between individual participant’s motivations and management in open source software (OSS) communities. Drawing on a review...

...Mats Edenius; Janet Borgerson Identification, generation, transfer, storage and efficient integration of knowledge occupy today’s corporate managers, and there is increasing interest in different strategies for managing knowledge. Many strategies correspond to different kinds of information...

...Jozef Loermans Many writers on management during the 1990s have stated that we have neither a good understanding of the process of organizational learning nor a good grasp of the concept of knowledge management. In his 1990 book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge quoted others in asserting...

... that affected success. This paper describes the systems and then explores why they were used so differently. Knowledge management is a broad‐based movement to bring together intellectual resources and make them available across organizational boundaries (Davenport, 1997; Davenport and Prusack, 1997; Hinds...

...Karl M. Wiig Knowledge management (KM) plays important roles in public administration (PA). Each role serves specific constituencies and purposes and is implemented differently. Jointly, they build society’s intellectual capital (IC) to improve the effectiveness of public and private decision...

...Ravi Arora In today’s fast changing and non‐linear business environment the only way to gain competitive advantage is by managing intellectual capital, which is more commonly known as knowledge management (KM). There are basically three broad objectives of KM: leveraging the organisation’s...

...Daniele Chauvel; Charles Despres Among the tools that knowledge management (KM) now deploys to assess its state of development are those surveys which determine current practice, establish benchmarks and offer a quantitative/qualitative description of what occurs “in reality”. The premise...

... to provide principles for the emerging science of knowledge management. This paper surveys this research and discusses results, which indicate more attention needs to be given to: problem formulation; asking the right questions; use of teams; organization of knowledge; expanding scope of expert systems...

... of alternative viewpoints, it is concluded that the future focus for knowledge management should be toward human resource strategies that leverage human‐intellectual capital within firms and for the dissemination and sharing of important information that promotes creativity and innovation within and between...

...Miltiadis D. Lytras; Athanasia Pouloudi; Angeliki Poulymenakou KM seems to be another buzzword. More and more we hear about the new imperatum of knowledge. Like researchers in a new field, our daily life is a continuous knowledge management process. Moreover, the origins of our focus diversify...

...Ganesh D. Bhatt In the present postindustrial society, knowledge has become a key resource. However, organizations face innumerable challenges in nurturing and managing knowledge. Unlike manufacturing activities, knowledge activities are difficult to monitor and control, because only a part...

...Luiz Antonio Joia Knowledge management has been largely used and applied within for‐profit organisations. However, knowledge management is a managerial tool that can also be used to assess the knowledge creation and flow within social initiatives. Presents the Proformação program, analysing...

...Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos Investigates organizational knowledge strategies in Spanish industry; using survey questionnaire covering: organizational knowledge management, organizational learning and performance. Applies Bierly and Chakrabarty’s typology of generic knowledge strategies to perform...

...Fei Gao; Meng Li; Yoshiteru Nakamori KM is increasingly imperative as it is regarded as the key determinant of a firm, industry or country for survival and growth in knowledge era. Varieties of disciplines have made contributions to knowledge and knowledge management. Research focuses on one...

...Josephine Chinying Lang Knowledge differs markedly from information and data. At rock bottom, knowledge is socially constructed in discourse communities. Because knowledge is not synonymous with information, IT cannot deliver knowledge management. Since there will always be uncodified...

...Howard C. Clark Canada’s unique experience with formal knowledge networks over the last 20 years has brought together research and business partners in highly managed organizations. Describes the characteristics of these formal knowledge networks and indicates their success to date. It must...