Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 21 Issue 2

Knowledge strategy planning: an integrated approach to manage uncertainty, turbulence, and dynamics

Ettore Bolisani, Constantin Bratianu

Knowledge strategy and its planning are affected by uncertainty and environmental turbulence. This paper aims to discuss these issues and present knowledge strategy planning as an…

Setting a knowledge boundary across teams: knowledge protection regulation for inter-team coordination and team performance

Junyeong Lee, Jinyoung Min, Heeseok Lee

As teams are built around specialized and different knowledge, they need to regulate their knowledge boundaries to exchange their specialized knowledge with other teams and to…

Managing extracted knowledge from big social media data for business decision making

Wu He, Feng-Kwei Wang, Vasudeva Akula

This paper aims to propose a knowledge management (KM) framework for leveraging big social media data to help interested organizations integrate Big Data technology, social media…

Value generation from industry-science linkages in light of targeted open innovation

Dirk Meissner, Elias George Carayannis

This paper aims to provide a substantial overview of features and channels of knowledge and technology transfer in light of achieving impact from science and research.

Knowledge management as a factor for the formulation and implementation of organization strategy

Rony Dayan, Peter Heisig, Florinda Matos

Knowledge management (KM) and organization strategy are both important to the success of an organization. This study aims to assess the research needs of their interrelationship.

Citation classics published in knowledge management journals. Part III: author survey

Alexander Serenko, John Dumay

This paper is the third part of a series of works investigating the top 100 knowledge management (KM) citation classic articles. The purpose of this paper is to understand why KM…

Knowledge management, problem solving and performance in top Italian firms

Daniele Giampaoli, Massimo Ciambotti, Nick Bontis

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the link between knowledge management practices, problem-solving processes and organizational performance.

Knowledge management activities in social enterprises: lessons for small and non-profit firms

Maria L. Granados, Souad Mohamed, Vlatka Hlupic

This paper aims to explore what social enterprises (SEs) in the UK know and how they acquire, convert, apply and protect this knowledge. This will enable them to manage their…

To gain or not to lose? The effect of monetary reward on motivation and knowledge contribution

Haixin Liu, Guiquan Li

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of reward type on knowledge contribution behavior. Individual knowledge contribution, which determines the effectiveness of…

How gamification of an enterprise collaboration system increases knowledge contribution: an affordance approach

Ayoung Suh, Christian Wagner

This study aims to examine how gamification increases employees’ knowledge contribution to the place of work. It develops and tests the conjecture that gamification adds hedonic…

Employees’ online knowledge sharing: the effects of person-environment fit

L.G. Pee, Jinyoung Min

Various individual and environmental factors influencing employees’ online knowledge sharing have been identified, but the understanding regarding these has been mostly limited…

Means-ends based know-how mapping

Arnon Sturm, Daniel Gross, Jian Wang, Eric Yu

The purpose of this paper is to report on research that aims to make knowledge, and in particular know-how, more easily accessible to both academic and industrial communities, as…

Empowering group leaders encourages knowledge sharing: integrating the social exchange theory and positive organizational behavior perspective

Wei-Li Wu, Yi-Chih Lee

Knowledge sharing usually happens in a work group context, but it is rarely know how group leaders influence their members’ knowledge-sharing performance. Based on social exchange…

Looking beyond knowledge sharing: an integrative approach to knowledge management culture

Ali Intezari, Nazim Taskin, David J. Pauleen

This study aims to identify the main knowledge processes associated with organizational knowledge culture. A diverse range of knowledge processes have been referred to in the…