2011 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2012), "2011 Awards for Excellence", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 16 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jkm.2012.23016aaa.001

2011 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 15, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year’s Outstanding Paper Award for Journal of Knowledge Management

"Shaping knowledge management: organization and national culture’’

Remy Magnier-WatanabeGraduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

Dai SenooDepartment of Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to confirm quantitatively the previous finding that organizational characteristics influence knowledge management, and to assess whether the national culture of knowledge workers equally affects the management of knowledge.Design/methodology/approach – Based on data gathered from a questionnaire survey of a Japanese pharmaceutical company’s 14 foreign subsidiaries, the effects of organizational characteristics and national culture on knowledge management were tested using multiple regression analysis.Findings – Although organizational characteristics and national culture were found to affect knowledge management, the data showed organizational characteristics to be a stronger prescriptive factor compared with national culture.Research limitations/implications – Because this research centered on a single company in the pharmaceutical industry, future research should attempt to confirm the validity of this framework in other industries.Practical implications – Changes in organizational characteristics, such as structure and relationship in particular, rather than adjustments in the composition of employees’ nationalities, will have a stronger impact on the resulting knowledge management.Originality/value – This framework linking organizational characteristics and national culture to knowledge management had received a first justification using a case study approach with a qualitative comparative method and has now been confirmed with a quantitative approach. Among the predictors of knowledge management beyond the realm of deliberate measures within the firm, the data show that organizational characteristics exert a stronger influence than national culture.

Keywords Cross-cultural management, Knowledge management, National cultures, Organizations

www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/13673271011032364

This article originally appeared in Volume 14 Number 2, 2010, pp. 214-27, Journal of Knowledge Management

The following articles were selected for this year’s Highly Commended Award

"Optimal knowledge transfer methods: a Generation X perspective’’

Debby McNichols

This article originally appeared in Volume 14 Number 1, 2010, Journal of Knowledge Management

"Learning expert thinking processes: using KM to structure the development of expertise’’

Christine van WinkelenRichard McDermott

This article originally appeared in Volume 14 Number 4, 2010, Journal of Knowledge Management

"External knowledge acquisition processes in knowledge-intensive clusters’’

Pedro Lo´ pez-Sae´ zJose´ Emilio Navas-Lo´ pezGregorio Martı´n-de-CastroJorge Cruz-Gonza´ lez

This article originally appeared in Volume 14 Number 5, 2010, Journal of Knowledge Management

Outstanding Reviewer

Dr Sudhanshu RaiCopenhagen Business School, Denmark