Table of contents - Special Issue: Paradoxes of knowledge, management, and knowledge management in Africa
Guest Editors: Emanuel Gomes, Miguel Pina e Cunha, David B. Zoogah, Geoffrey Wood, Peter Ping Li
Paradoxes and partnerships: a study of knowledge exploration and exploitation in international development programmes
John Lannon, John N. WalshThis paper aims to look at how organisational partnerships balance knowledge exploration and exploitation in contexts that are rife with paradoxes. It draws on paradox theory to…
Challenges and progress in integrating knowledge: cases from clothing and textiles in South Africa
Geoffrey Wood, Christine BischoffThe central purpose of this paper is to explore how implicit knowledge capabilities and sharing helps secure organizational survival and success. This article explores the…
The paradox of roots and wings: labor mobility between local firms and MNEs in North Africa
Fawzi Tigharsi, Abderaouf Bouguerra, Ismail Golgeci, Yasin RofcaninThe purpose of this study is to explore employees’ knowledge- and learning-related experiences in moving between local firms and multinational enterprises (MNEs) and to examine…
Knowledge management competences, exporting and productivity: uncovering African paradoxes
Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Christian K. Darko, Pervez GhauriThis study aims to investigate the importance of relational and conditional knowledge by assessing how service and signaling competences affect manufacturing firms’ productivity…
Awakening the Ubuntu episteme to embrace knowledge management in Africa
Florence Nansubuga, John C. MuneneThe knowledge management (KM) models in the African organisations are influenced by the interplay between human agents from diverse societies whose experiences, values, contextual…
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1367-3270e-ISSN:
1758-7484ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Professor Manlio Del Giudice