Welcome to the second issue of the International Journal of Knowledge Management. This issue presents an invited article from David Schwartz that continues the discussion on KM as a discipline. Also included is a review of the AMCIS KM track (continuing our reviews of the major KM conferences). Finally, four research articles are presented that explore the measurement of KM and knowledge manage...

Recently, knowledge management (KM) has become a very popular business concept. Unfortunately, there are still problems connected with the incorporation of KM into particular organisations in the Czech Republic (CR). These problems can be identified at all knowledge levels, which are a supranational level, national level, organisational level and management of knowledge level. Examples of probl...

From observation, very few organizations in Nigeria have Knowledge Management (KM) portfolios and one of such is KPMG that recruits staff regularly to fill knowledge management positions and have primary responsibilities to manage, develop, coordinate, maintain and disseminate KPMG's knowledge management processes and resources amongst several other responsibilities played by personnel employed...

Knowledge management is considered as an important factor in improving health care services. KM facilitates the transfer of existing knowledge and the development of new knowledge in hospitals. This paper reviews practices adopted by doctors in Kuwait for capturing, sharing, and generating knowledge. It also discusses the perceived impact of KM practices on performance of hospitals. Based on a ...

Knowledge is not manageable as if it was a data or information. Consequently, Knowledge Management (KM) must address activities that utilize and create knowledge more than knowledge by itself. With regard to this issue, we elaborated a sociotechnical approach of Knowledge Management within the enterprise, and we synthesized it into an empirical model called Model for General Knowledge Managemen...

This paper presents recent research findings on the effects of organizational knowledge management (KM) context on KM practices. Data were collected at a large Canadian law firm via a Web-based survey instrument from over 400 participants comprising professional and support staff working in various office locations. The purpose of the study was to gain insight on the antecedents of knowledge ma...

Alexander Serenko is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is Chair at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to update a global ranking of 27 knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – T...

Knowledge management (KM) is the subject of much literature, discussion, planning and some action. Effectively implementing a sound KM strategy and becoming a knowledge-based company is seen as a mandatory condition of success for organizations as they enter the era of the knowledge economy. Yet KM remains a broadly illdefined term, with many, often disparate management theories, applications a...

We propose a theoretical reference framework for a Knowledge Management (KM) Information Technology (IT) system in organizations. We take a holistic perspective on KM and derive the required features for the framework from KM-related research in psychology, business management and computer science. We propose classifications of organizational knowledge and knowledge entities (sets of people) ei...