Purpose – Safety management systems are created by firms to insure workplace safety while managing acceptable levels of risk. Global competition and the need to assimilate new processes, materials, and technologies, have imparted a more immediate financial and societal imperative in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for measuring knowledge management maturity level in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper defines and extracts effective factors and indicators on knowledge management and proposes a schema for prioritizing and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of infrastructure and strategy of knowledge management on acquisition of core competencies through knowledge management process in the Iranian automotive industry. Design/methodology/approach – For collecting primary data a...

Purpose Recognizing that the nature of research and scholarly communication is changing rapidly, an institutional repository (IR) is a tool for collecting, storing, accessing and disseminating scholarly communication within and without the institutions. The primary reason for establishing an IR...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to recommend a framework for remodelling a public sector knowledge management system (KMS) using key knowledge management (KM) processes. The rationale is to provide insight and guidelines to organisations that struggle with KM. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – To move beyond the literature definitions of knowledge work to provide insight into knowledge workers' identity within the organization. Design/methodology/approach – For knowledge workers, the need to identify themselves as part of a collective within their work environment is...

Purpose – The goal of this paper is to develop and test a model that explains information and communication channel (ICC) choice for knowledge sharing in work teams. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews relevant literature in information and knowledge sharing and communication...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a case study illustrating the issues involved in the tacit knowledge conversion process and to determine whether such conversion delivers value to the organisation in terms of business value and return on investment (ROI). Design/methodology/approach – A...