Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Reconstituting knowledge management

Jean‐Baptiste P.L. Faucher, André M. Everett, Rob Lawson

The purpose of the paper is to improve traditional knowledge management models in light of complexity theory, emphasizing the importance of moving away from hierarchical…

An evolutionary and interpretive perspective to knowledge management

Chalee Vorakulpipat, Yacine Rezgui

The purpose of the paper is to provide a review of knowledge management (KM) literature by adapting and extending McElroy's KM generations model.

Questioning the conventional wisdom: culture‐knowledge management relationships

William R. King

The aim of the paper is to provide a framework to enable firms and researchers to better understand and to test for the impact of various levels of culture on knowledge management…

Defining knowledge management (KM) activities: towards consensus

Lisa G.A. Beesley, Chris Cooper

The purpose of the paper is to present a vocabulary of terms that clearly define knowledge management (KM) activities in order to move towards consensus in the adoption of a…

The influence of KM on global corporations' competitiveness

Robert Karaszewski

The purpose of this paper is the evaluation of largest corporations' position in the world's economy and the influence of basic knowledge elements on building the competitive…

The management of consultancy knowledge: an internationally comparative analysis

Rory Donnelly

The paper aims to examine whether the knowledge management practices deployed by a multinational consultancy differ according to the national context in which they are implemented…

Factors influencing organizational knowledge transfer: implication for corporate performance

Jo Rhodes, Richard Hung, Peter Lok, Bella Ya‐Hui Lien, Chi‐Min Wu

Whilst knowledge transfer is a major strategy for managing contemporary organizations the impact of the key factors influencing the rate of organization knowledge transfer is…

A principal‐agent model for incentive design in knowledge sharing

Ning Nan

The purpose of this paper is to explore effective incentive design that can address the information asymmetry in knowledge sharing processes and variability of the intangible…

Modernizing retail grocery business via knowledge management‐based systems

Alan D. Smith

The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners of management a sense of how a major grocery retail business may flourish on the internet, but by employing a more…

Heedful interrelating, knowledge sharing, and new drug development

Alexander Styhre, Sanne Ollila, Jonas Roth, David Williamson, Lena Berg

The purpose of the paper is to report a study of knowledge sharing practices in the clinical research organization in a major pharmaceutical company. While knowledge sharing and…

Perceptions of knowledge management and intellectual capital in the banking industry

Carla Curado

The purpose of this paper is to capture the perceptions of knowledge management and intellectual capital in the banking industry. The reason for developing such a study is that…

Requirement for knowledge management: business driving information technology

Loye (Lynn) Ray

The paper aims to provide a roadmap for organizations to implement a knowledge management system that reduces loss of critical information and improves data retrieval.