Special issue on knowledge mangement and culture
Article Type: Call for papers From: VINE: The journal of information and knowledge management systems, Volume 39, Issue 4
Guest editors:Michael Stankosky, Editor Emeritus, VINE, and The George Washington University, USAFrancesco A. Calabrese, The George Washington University, and Enterprise Excellence Management Group International, Inc., USA
Knowledge management (KM) is about leveraging an organization’s strategic knowledge assets to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation. KM has many aspects to it, being highly dependent on leadership/management,organizational processes and structures, technologies, and organizational behavioral dynamics, to name the most important. Organizations mostly operate throughout the globe to accomplish their objectives. Since knowledge(intellectual capital) is a great part of their strategic assets, and probably affected by the geographical area where they operate, there is an imperative to research what, if any, impact geographical and regional culture has on KM. Are there barriers or facilitators that affect the generation, storage, analysis,visualization, transfer, and eventual use of another’s knowledge?
George Washington University’s Institute for Knowledge & Innovation has undertaken such research, and has completed, or in process, findings from various parts of the world: China, Middle East, France,
Italy, Brazil, Mexico, India, Cyprus, South Korea, Macedonia, Slovenia,Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Germany, and UK, to name a few. The purpose of the‘‘Call for papers’’ is to solicit related inputs from others who practice or research KM. These inputs could be based both on research, experiences, or stories of KM programs and initiatives affected by culture.
We would expect this edition to be well read; as such a topic is of great importance to global organizations; especially given the dynamic nature of knowledge, which inherently has no geographical constraints. This could easily become their handbook of choice. Please submit your inputs to Dr Stankosky (mstanko@gwu.edu) no later than 31 March 2010. Articles should be around ten-15 pages in length and follow format guidelines proscribed by VINE (www.emeraldinsight.com/vine.htm).
