Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 19 Issue 6

Individual variables with an impact on knowledge sharing: the critical role of employees’ ignorance

John Israilidis, Evangelia Siachou, Louise Cooke, Russell Lock

The purpose of this paper is to identify individual variables with an impact on knowledge sharing and explore the under-discussed construct of employees’ ignorance. This can…

Knowledge sharing in knowledge-intensive manufacturing firms. An empirical study of its enablers

Vincenzo Cavaliere, Sara Lombardi, Luca Giustiniano

This paper aims to investigate, following previous studies on knowledge-sharing (KS) processes that consist of knowledge donating (KD) and knowledge collecting (KC), the…

Knowledge sharing and affective commitment: the mediating role of psychological ownership

Jian Li, Ling Yuan, Lutao Ning, Jason Li-Ying

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the meditating role of psychological ownership which includes both organisation-based psychological ownership (OPO) and knowledge-based…

The mediating role of affective commitment in the rewards–knowledge transfer relation

Victor Martin-Perez, Natalia Martin-Cruz

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards as determinants of affective commitment and the influence of employees’ affective…

Human resource development programs for knowledge transfer and creation: the case of the Toyota Technical Development Corporation

Makoto Matsuo

The purpose of this study was to examine how human resource development (HRD) programs promote the linkage between knowledge transfer and knowledge creation in engineering…

Change readiness: creating understanding and capability for the knowledge acquisition process

Fariza Hanim Rusly, Peter Yih-Tong Sun, James L Corner

This study aims to show how change readiness shapes the knowledge acquisition process. The study elicits change readiness factors, at the individual and firm levels, that…

Linking knowledge management orientation to balanced scorecard outcomes

Hsiu-Fen Lin

This study aims to develops the decomposed model to examine the influence of knowledge management orientation (KMO) dimensions (organizational memory, knowledge sharing, knowledge…

Measuring the performance of knowledge resources using a value perspective: integrating BSC and ANP

Yaoguang Hu, Jingqian Wen, Yan Yan

This paper aims to provide insight into how knowledge resources in R & D organizations can be effectively and separately measured for knowledge sharing and transfer…

From implementation to appropriation: understanding knowledge management system development and introduction as a process of translation

Andreas Diedrich, Gustavo Guzman

This paper aims to examine the complexities emerging in the attempts to develop a sophisticated IT-based knowledge management system (KMS) for sharing knowledge. Using…

A conceptual breakdown structure for knowledge management benefits using meta-synthesis method

Shiva Yahyapour, Mehdi Shamizanjani, Mohammad Mosakhani

The paper aims to foster a better understanding of knowledge management (KM) benefits by integrating the qualitative findings of prior research under a multilayer conceptual…

Engineering knowledge and information needs in Italy and Japan: bridging the gap between theory and practice

Giustina Secundo, Remy Magnier-Watanabe, Peter Heisig

This study aims to identify and compare the knowledge and information retrieval needs from past projects and for future work among Italian and Japanese engineers. Engineering…

Citation classics published in Knowledge Management journals. Part II: studying research trends and discovering the Google Scholar Effect

Alexander Serenko, John Dumay

– The purpose of this study was to discover growing, stable and declining knowledge management (KM) research trends.