In today's knowledge-based economies, appropriate Knowledge Management (KM) has proved a strategic management tool to survive and thrive in the ever-changing global market. Therefore, increasingly, all types of organisations including tertiary institutions are adopting KM. This paper focuses on university libraries and presents the partial ̄ndings of a study carried out to investigate and explo...

The quest to leverage knowledge assets through effective Knowledge Management (KM) is a strategic initiative for many firms. Management literature has noted the lack of effective management of knowledge and called for establishing quantitative measures for these intangible assets (Teece, 1998; Zack, 1999b). Unfortunately, most KM initiatives in reality have been information projects that result...

There is a view that knowledge management (KM) is primarily a business concept that can bring increased profitability for commercial organisations. However, the management of processes such as knowledge creation, capture, sharing and use are not exclusive to business; good KM practices can bring benefits to all organisations. Given higher education’s (HE) priority of developing knowledge assets...

AbstrAct This chapter explores knowledge management, KM, and knowledge management system, KMS, success. The inspiration for this chapter is the KM Success and Measurement minitrack held at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in January of 2007 and 2008. KM and KMS success are issues needing to be explored. The Knowledge Management Foundations workshop held at the Hawaii Inter...

With the emergence of the knowledge economy, organisations are beginning to see a need to apply knowledge management (KM) practices to their business activities. While knowledge management (KM) has gathered considerable momentum in order to be a vital source of competitive advantage, how its role could harvest knowledge assets for innovation has yet to be established firmly. This paper aims to ...

This special issue originated from the Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management 2010 Conference. From fifty-one submissions, seven articles from seven different countries are in this issue. In consequence to the wealthy etymology of the word “knowledge”, knowledge management (KM) is equally rich in variety of aspects. Some aspects directly consider humans as users of knowledge, whereas others ...

Due to the vagueness of the concept of knowledge, the software market for knowledge management (KM) seems to be quite confusing. Technology vendors are developing different implementations of the KM concepts in their software products. Because of the variety and quantity of KM tools available on the market, a typology may be a valuable aid to organizations that are searching and evaluating KM s...

Organizational research on Knowledge Management (KM) has studied the nature of knowledge, the scope of KM, the factors and mechanisms that affect KM outcomes, as well as the theoretical KM frameworks. This paper discusses the implications of past KM studies and identifies nine significant contextual, cultural, structural, managerial, cognitive and technological factors that may impact the overa...

Enterprise System (ES) implementation and management are knowledge intensive tasks that inevitably draw upon the experience of a wide range of people with diverse knowledge capabilities. Knowledge Management (KM) has been identified as a critical success factor in ES projects. Despite the recognized importance of managing knowledge for ES benefits realization, systematic attempts to conceptuali...

For purposes of reacting to an increasingly competitive business environment, many companies emphasize the importance of knowledge management (KM), thus, it is a worthwhile project to explore and learn about KM features of high-performance companies. Discovering and describing the critical KM features of high-performance companies is a qualitative analysis problem. To handle this kind of proble...