With the growing popularity of knowledge management, the need for frameworks for evaluating the impacts of knowledge management on organizational performance has been recognized by practitioners. Despite the wide implementations of knowledge management, there is yet no standardized framework for measuring the performance within organizations. This paper provides an overview of the approaches to...

With the growing popularity of knowledge management, the need for frameworks for evaluating the impacts of knowledge management on organizational performance has been recognized by practitioners. Despite the wide implementations of knowledge management, there is yet no standardized framework for measuring the performance within organizations. This paper provides an overview of the approaches to...

Management theorists generally define organizational culture as relatively idiosyncratic, organization-related beliefs that are shared among individuals within an organization or part of an organization . . . We describe this as the prevailing focus the field places on organizational microcultures and distinguish it from what we term interorganizational macrocultures, by which we mean the relat...

A great research suggests that effective knowledge management can strengthen organizational performance. But empirical research is very scarce. The concept of knowledge management orientation based on knowledge and resource views presents the degree to which organizations implement knowledge management. This paper mainly analyzes the relationships among knowledge management orientation, organiz...

The ability to leverage organizational expertise is a critical success factor in most forms of knowledge work. However, expertise is an exceedingly difficult resource to manage. The design of computer-based support for knowledge management requires extensive, costly and inefficient cycles of knowledge elicitation to generate a reasonable knowledge map. We propose an alternative approximation te...

Earlier studies have found in the U.S. a significant relationship between employee-centered management and financial performance. This paper reports a cross-cultural study designed to determine whether similar relationships exists in other cultures. A primary objective is to invite the participation of other researchers in extending the research design to include organizations in additional cou...

Many contemporary organizations are placing a greater emphasis on their performance management systems as a means of generating higher levels of job performance. We suggest that producing performance increments may be best achieved by orienting the performance management system to promote employee engagement. To this end, we describe a new approach to the performance management process that inc...

Even though knowledge organizations, such as research institutes, have only a minor role in the economies of the developing countries, they nevertheless are becoming increasingly important for development. Appropriate knowledge management could contribute considerably to their effectiveness and efficiency. We examined the state of knowledge management in eight research organizations: three in N...