Purpose – This paper aims to analyse and evaluate the transfer process of codified knowledge (CK) performed under two different approaches: the “socio‐technical” and the “top‐down”. It is argued that the socio‐technical approach supports the transfer of CK better than the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and characterise the knowledge creation process in construction organisations and explore to what extent organisations facilitate the process. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is adopted using four construction...

Purpose – As businesses continue to forge ahead in the twenty‐first century, knowledge management (KM) has materialized as a significant differentiator. The process of creating new knowledge, sharing, and preserving such knowledge, is crucial for achieving competitive advantage. To gain...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the future prospects of the popular concept known as the learning organization; to trace the influence of philosophical pragmatism on the learning organization and to consider its potential impact on the future; and to emphasize how pragmatic...

Purpose – This article aims to examine international studies of knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL). Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form of a literature review of KM and OL research that focuses on a business or businesses located outside...

Organisations often collaboratively seek ways such as partnerships, alliances and joint venture (JVs), to bridge gaps in their knowledge and capacity to provide goods or services. Infrastructure projects in Hong Kong often require clusters of resources, knowledge, skills and capabilities that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge management initiatives in developing learning organization capacity (LOC). Design/methodology/approach – This is an empirical study based on a single case study, using partial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptually demonstrate that the relationship between turnover and innovation is not direct as some research suggests, but rather indirect, with organizational learning as the prerequisite social mechanism that ties the two phenomena together....

Purpose – The aim of this introduction to the special issue is to furnish a panorama on how practice‐based studies (PBS) concerned with organizational learning have developed in recent years, and to describe the topics that such studies have debated. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of instruments defined as artefacts, rules, models or norms, in the articulation between knowing‐in‐practice and knowledge, in learning processes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on a distributed,...