With the global proliferation of the internet, social media, and the growth of the European Union to 27 nations, it appeared that a trend toward global cultural homogenization was underway. However, with the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007, it can be argued that this trend not only...

While organizations have initiated knowledge management initiatives to systematically and methodically capture both explicit and tacit (or silent) knowledge, these initiatives have experienced mixed results. Inherent organizational idiosyncrasies have bounded the transferability and reusability...

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...

This paper is a description and analysis of found conceptualizations of tacit knowledge in the knowledge management (KM) literature. The essay’s argument is that there are several different ways of framing or understanding the nature, conceptualizations, of tacit knowledge. Because tacit...

The year 2000 computer date problem, although identified since the 1960s, has been sensationalized, commercialized, but not yet universally resolved. Although estimates for correcting the problem hover around $600 billion in direct conversion costs, there is also an additional $1 trillion in...

Employees are reluctant to share knowledge for many reasons. Paper explores knowledge sharing and hoarding processes in organization through social exchange theory. Since it is lack of conceptual framework which would explain knowledge sharing process in coherent manner connecting micro level in...

The recent financial and economic crisis has shown that the world is acting as one and that actions on one part of the world can have substantial reactions on completely other parts of it. We can conclude that companies in 21st Century have to act locally but think and be prepared to react –...

Innovation networking can boost new knowledge production, innovation, knowledge transfer and also commercialisation of new knowledge. These are important factors influencing economic performance of any country. Governments have a central role in encouraging the cooperation among business...

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...