Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 7 Issue 3

An empirical analysis of knowledge management applications

Sandra Moffett, Rodney McAdam, Stephen Parkinson

The aim of this paper is to improve the understanding and inter‐relationship of both the people and technical aspects of knowledge management. Studies in knowledge management…

Knowledge: a sense making process shared through narrative

Angelique du Toit

Organizations create knowledge by making sense of new stimuli with which they are constantly being bombarded with. Furthermore, the knowledge created is transmitted through the…

Knowledge modeling for the preservation of institutional memory

John W. Coffey, Robert R. Hoffman

After setting the stage by briefly surveying knowledge elicitation techniques, this article presents a description of an iterative approach to the elicitation and representation…

What knowledge managers really do: an empirical and comparative analysis

Arben Asllani, Fred Luthans

The advent of information technology has generated not only interest in how to acquire, store and “mine” data, but also how to manage knowledge. Yet, there is still considerable…

Knowledge management and the occasional links with performance

Thomas Kalling

This paper argues that current research into knowledge management fails to recognize and offer a detailed understanding about the role of knowledge in improving firm performance…

Knowledge management and organizational competitiveness: a framework for human capital analysis

Jesus Rodriguez Perez, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos

Knowledge management literature highlights the fact that, in the new economy, the achievement of a sustained competitive advantage depends on firm’s capacity to develop and deploy…

Training strategies in the management of knowledge

Ahn‐Sook Hwang

Knowledge management has attracted much attention as a key strategy to organizational success and survival in today’s unpredictable and highly competitive environments. And yet…

Follow the rainbow: a knowledge management framework for new product introduction

P.M. Herder, W.W. Veeneman, M.D.J. Buitenhuis, A. Schaller

This paper describes the development of a knowledge management framework for the “new product introduction process” of Motorola. Motorola operates in a very dynamic business with…

Knowledge management in a project‐oriented organization: three perspectives

Karina Skovvang Christensen, Heine Kaasgaard Bang

Knowledge management is seen as a metaphorical perspective on management where the managerial focus depends on the epistemological standpoint taken. An identification of three…

Supply chain perspectives to knowledge management: research propositions

Kevin C. Desouza, Ayan Chattaraj, George Kraft

The purpose of the paper is to suggest a novel approach that groups the theories of systems, information and bounded rationality into organizational knowledge management. We base…