The paper is based on a study of the KM literature. It looks at Nonaka’s, Takeuchi’s, and Konno’s notions about knowledge creation, BA, and the SECI model as grounded in Zen Buddhism. The paper discusses Polanyi’s idea of tacit knowledge, central to the Japanese way and to the Western...

Job satisfaction is an attitude toward the job and the work context that has been in the centre of attention of theoreticians, researchers and practitioners for many decades. Past researches confirm that job satisfaction is related to employee’s job performance, organisational commitment,...

In the contemporary business conditions, organisations definitely recognise that information and knowledge management is an inevitable process that can provide increase in productivity and business risk mitigation. In this context, the past decade has seen the emergence of Enterprise Content...

A lot of organizations have already dealt with creating, keeping, sharing and multiplying their knowledge. The current trends do not lead only to better and proper execution of these well-known knowledge management processes, but they also try to achieve the right knowledge management...

In business surroundings characterized by tough competition and more demanding customers, in order to ensure stable market position and good relationship with customers, companies' main task becomes proper use of corporate knowledge. Knowledge management is directed towards identification,...

Knowledge management impacts organisational performance. It is related to technical systems and business and work processes in which employees as human beings are involved. The key objective of knowledge management is "doing what is needed to get most out of knowledge resources." In the paper we...

Knowledge has become a more powerful production factor than any other. Organizations are aware that knowledge is the key dimension which can bring them their competitive advantage. Knowledge management is a systematic approach to planning, actuating, and controlling the knowledge manipulation...

For a long time, formalized knowledge management was in fact only reserved for large companies. Meanwhile, increase in market competition and the dynamic changes in companies' external environment in recent years have made also small and medium enterprises attach great importance to the issues...

The paper presents relationships between market orientation (MO), knowledge management (KM) and growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Two basic questions are stated for this study: (1) what are the relationships between those two concepts, KM and MO, and growth of...

On a global basis, product managers are recognizing the importance of knowledge as a means of gaining or sustaining product success on market. Knowledge management becomes an essential process in product management. A product management that joins all needed market, economic and technical skills...