Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

The interdependency between strategic management and strategic knowledge management

Retha Snyman, Cornelius Johannes Kruger

The manner in which a business strategy was formulated ten or even as little as five years ago, no longer applies. This phenomenon can to a great extent be attributed to a shift…

Knowledge management impacts on decision making process

Rolland Nicolas

This article investigates the deep relation between knowledge management and decision‐making process. Strategy process is concerned with decisions that influence firm’s strategic…

Towards a holistic knowledge management model

Ioannis E. Diakoulakis, Nikolaos B. Georgopoulos, Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis, Dimitrios M. Emiris

Knowledge management (KM) has been gradually established as a strong methodology to support business viability, competitiveness and growth; however, the lack of maturity is…

Strategically integrating knowledge management initiatives

Joseph E. McCann, Marilyn Buckner

Despite continued interest in knowledge management (KM) initiatives that leverage an organization’s intellectual capital in the marketplace, several issues make it difficult for…

Formative knowledge: from knowledge dichotomy to knowledge geography – knowledge management transformed by the ubiquitous information society

Takuma Takahashi, Donna Vandenbrink

The ubiquitous information society gave birth to quasi‐explicit, or formative, knowledge. Formative knowledge is like explicit knowledge in that it can be copied, but unlike…

Internal diversification strategies and the processes of knowledge creation

Ma Carmen Camelo‐Ordaz, Mariluz Fernández‐Alles, Fernando Martín‐Alcázar, Pedro M. Romero‐Fernández, Ramón Valle‐Cabrera

The knowledge‐based theory argues that the strategy of internal diversification reflects a process of branching‐out, combination and transformation of the organization’s…

Knowledge sharing community in P2P network: a study of motivational perspective

James S.H. Kwok, S. Gao

How to effectively share knowledge within organizations has been given a great deal of attention in practice as well as in research. However, most of current approaches are based…

Knowledge management benchmarks for project management

Michel J. Leseure, Naomi J. Brookes

The results of a research project dealing with knowledge management in project environments and the capability to transfer knowledge across projects teams are presented. A key…

Analyzing the knowledge management through the product development process

Fernanda Menezes Ferrari, José Carlos de Toledo

The aim of this paper is to present a model for the analysis to the knowledge management on the organizational processes. Knowledge can be considered an input, an element of…

Knowledge marketplaces: strategic issues and business models

Kostas Kafentzis, Gregoris Mentzas, Dimitris Apostolou, Panos Georgolios

An increasing number of enterprises are getting interested in exploiting their knowledge assets outside the organizational borders and in augmenting their knowledge network. A…