background and objectives: knowledge management (km) has emerged as a pathway towards competitive advantage in current complex industrial environment. the aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between km effectiveness and various organizational factors including social interactions (trust, communication and coordination), infrastructure factors (structure, information technol...

Organizational knowledge management (KM) research studies the nature of knowledge, the scope of KM, the factors and mechanisms that affect KM outcomes, as well as theoretical KM frameworks. This paper discusses the implications of past studies for the KM efforts in the human genetic variation (HGV) research domain and presents a HGV-KM research model. This model identifies the context of HGV KM...

Management research has often overlooked the role of knowledge and knowledge management (KM) in the analysis of organizations and their performance. Also, the literature on KM is short of empirical evidence on the likely interrelatedness of the KM processes. This investigation adopted a research model and used data from 38 Egyptian software firms to examine: (1) the relationship of the KM proce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to explore the intellectual core of the knowledge management (KM) academic discipline in order to test whether it exhibits signs of a reference discipline; and to analyze the theoretical and practical impact of the discipline. Design/methodology/approach – The most influential articles published in the Journal of Knowledge Management were selecte...

Knowledge is being discussed as one of the most important organizational resources. But these resources exist in specialized pockets dispersed across the organization, and dedicated knowledge management (KM) programs are required to improve their flow. However, high failure rates of such programs raise serious doubts about their ability to improve knowledge flows. This case traces the KM progra...

As organizations recognize their knowledge as a source of competitive advantage, they are increasingly investing in Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives in an attempt to realize both firmand operationallevel benefits. However, many KM initiatives fail to yield the desired outcomes due to our lack of understanding of the antecedents to successful KM. Prior studies have established that organiza...

This study describes the restructuring initiative to create knowledge about organic customer profile as well as to identify relevant knowledge in supporting company’s need to target customers who accept organic products within knowledge management and customer relationship Management (KM-CRM) framework. Searching for cross-case pattern toward three organic products companies was conducted to ge...

This paper examines the role of knowledge management (KM) in not-for-profit organisations (NFPs). NFPs are essential in developing sustainable communities (Scarso 2008) providing many social, environmental, health and human services required by a vast amount of communities’ stakeholders. With limited research related to KM in an NFP setting, this paper advances knowledge and offers a unique vie...

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Knowledge Management (KM) has become a pervasive topic in management practice. The proliferation of KM is the result of concentrated and deliberate efforts on the part of many organizations. Scores of books, articles, and conferences tout KM. There is widespread belief that KM can lead to competitive advantage. Some authors have attempted to show that competitive advantage ...