The transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy under way in Vietnam over the last twenty years has led to a national aggregate rise in incomes, increased expenditures and a decrease in poverty levels (Haughton et al . 2001; Taylor 2004a). Yet Vietnam’s ethnic minorities, who officially comprise over fifty different linguistically distinct groups and account for around 15 p...

In our work a new approach, the Distributed Knowledge Management (DKM) approach, is used and organizations are seen as constellations of communities, which “own” local knowledge and exchange it through meaning negotiation coordination processes. In order to reify communities within a DKM system, the concept of Knowledge Node (KN) is used and then applied in a case study: a complex Italian natio...