Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 9 Issue 3

Why KM projects fail: a multi‐case analysis

Alton Chua, Wing Lam

This paper attempts to understand the reasons for knowledge management (KM) project failure.

Three‐dozen knowledge‐sharing barriers managers must consider

Andreas Riege

Knowledge sharing is the corner‐stone of many organisations’ knowledge‐management (KM) strategy. Despite the growing significance of knowledge sharing's practices for…

Case study on knowledge‐management gaps

Chinho Lin, Jong‐Mau Yeh, Shu‐Mei Tseng

To propose a holistic framework for understanding the “knowledge‐management (KM) gap” – illustrating six types of gaps that might occur within KM activities.

Managing knowledge sharing in China: the case of Siemens ShareNet

Sven C. Voelpel, Zheng Han

Since previous research has mainly focused on “how multinational companies generally practise knowledge management”, this paper seeks to suggest that very little is known of the…

An empirical study of the important factors for knowledge‐management adoption in the SME sector

Kuan Yew Wong, Elaine Aspinwall

To investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) for adopting knowledge management (KM) in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) – an area that has, to date, received very…

A knowledge‐capture report for multidisciplinary design environments

Isao T. Matsumoto, John Stapleton, Jacqueline Glass, Tony Thorpe

Organisations must continually innovate to remain competitive. A by‐product of innovation is new knowledge. In a knowledge economy, an organisation's ability to manage its…

Social capital, knowledge management, and sustained superior performance

James J. Hoffman, Mark L. Hoelscher, Karma Sherif

This article attempts to begin the process of removing the cloak of causal ambiguity by examining the role that knowledge management has in the creation of the wide variety of…

Knowledge management, innovation and firm performance

Jenny Darroch

To provide important empirical evidence to support the role of knowledge management within firms.

The concept of knowledge work revisited

Pasi Pyöriä

To identify and critically assess the most recurrent themes in the ongoing debate on knowledge work.

Corporate South Africa: making multicultural knowledge sharing work

Nicozaan Finestone, Retha Snyman

Knowledge management in South Africa is still a very new field of management and knowledge managers are experiencing difficulties with the added dimension of multiculturalism. The…