Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 8 Issue 2

Establishing a global KM initiative: the Wipro story

Jay Chatzkel

Wipro Technologies is an Indian information technology outsourcing company that, over a two year period, established a knowledge management initiative that enables it to build a…

The future of knowledge management: an international delphi study

Wolfgang Scholl, Christine König, Bertolt Meyer, Peter Heisig

The field of knowledge management (KM) is highly estimated in research and practice but at the same time relatively diffuse and scattered into diverging concepts, perspectives and…

Reconfiguring knowledge management – combining intellectual capital, intangible assets and knowledge creation

Tomi Hussi

Intellectual capital, intangible assets and knowledge creation are all concepts that are strongly linked to the phenomenon of knowledge management. Yet they have only been…

Managing knowledge work: specialization and collaboration of engineering problem‐solving

Jeffrey Kim, John King

In this paper we investigate the exploratory nature of knowledge creation and sharing practice in high‐technology industry. Traditional approaches in knowledge management focus on…

Coordination of technological knowledge flows in firms

Khaleel Malik

One of the major challenges inside firms is how to effectively manage their knowledge assets in the context of managing the transfer of technological knowledge across the firm’s…

The reward effect: a case study of failing to manage knowledge

Yoav Gal

This article describes an organization that took great interest in the idea of knowledge management and launched such initiatives. Despite the success of five KM projects during…

Facilitating knowledge sharing in Russian and Chinese subsidiaries: the role of personal networks and group membership

Kate Hutchings, Snejina Michailova

The unprecedented escalation in the number of organizations that have decided to internationalize their operations in the last two decades, and the international movement of labor…

Knowledge management in a public organization: a study on the relationship between organizational elements and the performance of knowledge transfer

Syed Omar Sharifuddin Syed‐Ikhsan, Fytton Rowland

Relatively little study has been performed on knowledge management and knowledge transfer in the public sector, and even less in the developing countries. This paper investigates…

Improving the use of know‐how in organizations by reconciling enablers and contributors

Aliah Blackmore

This paper explores the impact of IT upon the use of know‐how within the organization. An attempt is made to determine whether measures to improve the interaction between IT…

The diffusion of tacit knowledge and its implications on information systems: the role of meta‐abilities

Mohamad Hisyam Selamat, Jyoti Choudrie

Diffusing tacit knowledge, a transparent and subjective form of knowledge, needs an individual’s ability to externalize and sharing of this knowledge. This paper proposes a…