The family business¡¯s tacit knowledge, embedded in its founder, and its transmission is found to be important for building and sustaining competitive advantage since this type of knowledge is difficult to trade and imitate, scarce, appropriable and specialized. The purpose of our research was...

Weil es in vielen Bereichen nicht notwendig ist, seinen Beruf zu festen Kernarbeitszeiten von einem Arbeitsplatz in den Räumlichkeiten des Arbeitsgebers auszuüben, entwickelte sich 2005 als logische Fortführung anderer flexibler Arbeitsformen das Konzept des Coworking. Da hierzu kaum...

Статья посвящена анализу специфических факторов передачи таситных знаний в системах управления знаниями. Показано, что барьеры передачи таситных знаний...

The acquisition and management of knowledge is increasingly more important in today's economy because of the large proportion of the workforce eligible for retirement in the next 10 years. Companies have long understood that reusing explicit knowledge in the form of policies, documentation and...

This paper appraises the criticism that "Knowledge Management (KM) is little more than re-packaged Information Management (IM)" through analysis of the relationships and inconsistencies between IM and KM. This is supported by a case study of the loss of an UK Royal Air Force aircraft known as...

The aim of the article is to illustrate the methods of acquiring knowledge in enterprises. Knowledge will be defined in terms of individuals and of the organization. Different authors define knowledge in different ways and they also recommend various methods for the effective acquisition of...

This paper critically explores the forces driving the codification of knowledge, together with the implications of codification for the evolution of the knowledge-based economy. It is argued that tacit knowledge is neglected in the drive to codify with important consequences for the process of...

This study seeks to develop a dynamic theoretical framework for global competitiveness and to determine whether the enhancement of firm performance comes as a consequence of clustering at the location level, inter-organisational trust at the relationship level, or resource and knowledge...

In the current competitive climate, knowledge management has moved from a utopian state of affairs to a reality. It allows for the recognition that competitiveness is based on the experience as well as motivation of employees. In this context there is a need to identify and construct tools and...

This paper aims at analysing the differences between two major research fields: Economic intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and...