Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 15 Issue 1

Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design

Ben Iaquinto, Ray Ison, Robert Faggian

This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements that might contribute to the successful “design” and continuity of…

Participation in intra‐firm communities of practice: a case study from the automotive industry

Patricia Wolf, Sebastian Späth, Stefan Haefliger

Communities of practice (CoPs) have been found to support knowledge creation by enabling knowledge sharing among experts in firms. However, some perform better than others. This…

Improving intranet knowledge transfer through resident engineers

Ricardo Mateo, Martín Tanco, Javier Santos

This research paper aims to explore how intranet mechanisms for knowledge transfer in a multinational automotive company can be improved with the inclusion of a human interface…

Knowledge‐sharing enablers and barriers in pharmaceutical research and development

Anne‐Mette Lilleoere, Ebba Holme Hansen

Because selling innovative products is crucial to its livelihood, the pharmaceutical industry has a fundamental need to share knowledge to stimulate the process of knowledge…

An innovation perspective of knowledge management in a multinational subsidiary

Mirta Amalia, Yanuar Nugroho

This paper seeks to explore the implementation of knowledge management in a telecommunication multinational subsidiary and to investigate factors that affect the performance as…

Leveraging socio‐culturally situated tacit knowledge

Cheryl Marie Cordeiro‐Nilsson, Suliman Hawamdeh

This study seeks to investigate how a more lateral style of working, such as the Swedish model of management that reflects a more linear manner of managing organizational…

An exploratory examination of knowledge‐ sharing behaviors: solicited and voluntary

James T.C. Teng, Seokwoo Song

Knowledge sharing (KS) has been a central concern in knowledge management (KM) practice and research. However, KS has remained largely a simplistic concept. This study aims to…

Balancing knowledge strategy: codification and personalization during product development

J. Ajith Kumar, L.S. Ganesh

This paper aims to understand the knowledge strategies followed by product development (PD) units in Indian manufacturing firms.

Antecedents of the stage‐based knowledge management evolution

Hsiu‐Fen Lin

To enhance one's understanding of the evolution of knowledge management (KM), this study seeks to develop a research model to examine the impact of individual (knowledge…

Knowledge management and organizational performance: a decomposed view

Annette M. Mills, Trevor A. Smith

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of specific knowledge management resources (i.e. knowledge management enablers and processes) on organizational performance.

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh