The existing literature on Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) focuses on individual characteristics and organizational context but fails to convincingly address the issue of process dynamics in terms of effective and ineffective CKO moves and strategies. In order to address this gap we review...

This paper explores the contribution of communal structures such as Communities of Practice (CoPs) on intraorganizational Knowledge Management (KM). First, we look at intraorganizational knowledge management and explore the role that information systems can play. We introduce the idea of...

Purpose - This paper contributes to the sociology-of-science type of accounting literature, addressing how accounting knowledge is established, advanced and extended. Design/methodology/approach - The research question is answered through the example of research into linkages between accounting...

Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and...

Knowledge management is now a huge domain, where it is difficult to have a clear view of the manipulated concepts and their crossed-relations. The development of that domain requires now a theoretical framework including concepts from various theories as Knowledge Economy, Information Systems,...

L'expérience a démontré que la mise en oeuvre d'une gestion efficace des connaissances passe par le repérage, l'analyse du patrimoine de connaissances d'une entreprise, afin de les valoriser au mieux. Ainsi, la cartographie des connaissances est un moyen de navigation « cognitif » pour...

Capitalisation of the history of a technology, a technique or a concept within an industrial company is relevant to historians. However it largely exceeds the historical problems from a Knowledge Management point of view. In this context, it can be the subject of specific approaches especially...

Ce papier présente une recherche en cours sur l'exploitation des techniques de gestion et d'ingénierie des connaissances en vue de l'élaboration d'une démarche stratégique pour le transfert des savoir-faire métiers. Ce transfert se base sur la conception des dispositifs de partage et...

La gestion explicite des savoirs et savoir-faire occupe une place de plus en plus importante dans les organisations. La construction de mémoires d'entreprise dans un but de préservation et de partage est devenu une pratique assez courante. Cependant, on oublie trop souvent que l'efficacité de...

Knowledge transfer problem between two generations of professionals (usually from the old one to the new one) to a new dimension. Knowledge transfer is no longer reducible to classical solutions as face to face training, technical education, tutoring. Knowledge to transfer is professional...