Purpose – Reflection on the trend towards recycling knowledge without realising it, and on not recognising past achievements. Design/methodology/approach – Poetic exploration. Findings – Provides a reflection on the tendency to forget or ignore what has already been achieved and to present...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on knowledge management implementation from an organisational culture perspective and analyse the relationship between knowledge and power within this context. It outlines the reasons why knowledge is a power resource, and proposes that, as such,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why Africa's indigenous knowledge is not playing a more active and visible role in the knowledge economy and to the roles that academia and librarians must play for it to be so. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is to combine...

With the advent of Internet technology and its rapid growth during the last few years, electronic commerce has become an increasing reality. While e‐commerce still constitutes a small part of many countries’ economies, it is seen by many as an opportunity to reduce cost and improve...

Purpose – In this paper we present a roadmap for the elicitation of business rules based on different stakeholders' perspectives, in order to facilitate the processes of structuring, organizing and expressing business tactic and policy in a way that it is close to the business milieu and...

Purpose – This paper addresses the ways in which a prospective knowledge user can approach seeking a potential contributor's knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data were collected in 2004 using semi‐structured interviews from a large multinational corporation situated in...

Purpose – As organizations become more global in their reach, their people and tools have to reflect more expansive capabilities. Innovative organizations hire leaders and team members who possess cross‐industry knowledge. This is one of the keys to dealing with the rapid change and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propagate a goal‐driven engineering process – an engine of invention, innovation, and growth – to be the soul of management for organizations to recover from the malaise that arose from illusions of creating capital wealth through deceptive...

Purpose – Explores the use of strategies adopted by authors and publishers to enhance the success potential of their books. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the literature on the production of best selling business books, strategies and techniques increasingly being deployed in the...