Diverse concepts and bodies of work exist in the academic literature to guide research and practice on organizational knowledge and capabilities. However, these concepts have largely developed in parallel with minimal cross-fertilization, particularly in the healthcare domain. This contributes to confusion regarding conceptual boundaries and relationships, and to a lack of application of potent...

In many business schools, the field of strategic management has been elevated to the same status as more traditional subject areas such as finance, marketing and organizational behaviour. However, the field is rather unclearly delineated at present, as a result of the heavy usage of borrowed theories, a phenomenon we discuss in this article. For strategic management to become a legitimate subje...

one of the most hot topic in recent years in management is organizational identity and more important than it, is identity construction which ignored in researches. nowadays in most of the public organizations, the increase of turnover rate, reducing employees` job satisfaction, increasing the amount of job absent, developing job alienation, and lack of accepting responsibility sense and genera...

Current thinking concerning individual and organizational performance questions the ability of conventional, formal training strategies to address gaps, given the volume and rate of change in modern business environments. Increasingly, there is an emphasis on the role of improved information access and informal learning, both in the fields of learning and KM. However, despite the advances in te...

Assessing a considerable lack of systematic empirical evaluation in the field of Knowlegde Management, we give an overview of evaluative approaches in different research areas up to now. We are especially covering those areas which are relevant for the development of Organizational Memories Informations Systems (OMIS): Knowledge Engineering (including Knowledge Acquisition and Ontologies), Huma...

This paper explores the linkage between organizational structure and cross-cultural management. It suggests that a fluid and continuously evolving structure enables effective crosscultural management. In support of this proposition, the paper reports on the experience of one of the world’s largest financial services corporations – a Swiss Bank. The bank adopted a different type of organizationa...