Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 6 Issue 2

Complex acts of knowing: paradox and descriptive self‐awareness

David Snowden

We are reaching the end of the second generation of knowledge management, with its focus on tacit‐explicit knowledge conversion. Triggered by the SECI model of Nonaka, it replaced…

Tacit knowledge management: the role of artifacts

Kristian Kreiner

This article discusses both the management of tacit knowledge and the tacit approach to knowledge management. Tacit knowledge must be made manageable by being explicated and…

A traveling conversation model for dynamic knowledge interaction

Toyoaki Nishida

Dynamic knowledge interaction is interaction that brings about mutual understanding and knowledge evolution in a community. Proposes a communication medium called conversational…

Tacit knowledge in professional firms: the teachings of firms in very puzzling situations

Philippe Baumard

Professional firms (i.e. consulting, lawyers, etc.) accumulate and apply knowledge that they build collaboratively with their clients, partners and other knowledge intensive…

Innovation and heterogeneous knowledge in managerial contact networks

Simon Rodan

Innovation, particularly in a dynamic environment, is crucial to a firm’s competitiveness. We test the hypothesis that managers’ performance, particularly their innovativeness, is…

The dynamics of knowledge flows: human capital mobility, knowledge retention and change

Tammy L. Madsen, Elaine Mosakowski, Srilata Zaheer

This empirical paper investigates the relationships between the amount of human capital that flows into a firm and two activities underlying a firm’s knowledge production…

Dynamic intellectual capital in global rapidly changing industries

Pirjo Ståhle, Jianzhong Hong

This paper introduces a newly developed knowledge management concept, dynamic intellectual capital (IC), which refers to a company’s ability for self‐renewal. The paper presents…

Scientific knowledge and implications for its diffusion

Christian Zellner, Dirk Fornahl

Considers some external aspects influencing the dynamics of firms’ knowledge base. Argues that the successful management of the knowledge base in a fast changing innovative…