The 21st century brings along the recognition for the necessity to understand and measure the activity of knowledge management, for which reason organizations and system organizations, together with decisional governmental factors, do their best in order to develop policies that would promote...

The present paper aims at explaining the strategies of international business from the perspective of the Knowledge management approach. The authors through an alternative look at these strategies by using the production factor knowledge as the differentiating factor. In this sense, the paper...

Nowadays, enterprises require developing continuously innovations in their products, processes and organisational structures to gain and maintain competitive advantages. In this sense, the organizational adoption capacity of externally generated knowledge is becoming an increasingly crucial core...

The crisis in the Social Welfare State and Knowledge Societies is affecting the current university system, which lacks clear answers and faces a diffuse and confusing outlook of aims and purposes. In the face of these problems, organization and management turn out to be key strategic factors,...

In present times, universities face increasing financial needs, while, according to a common standard of judgement, the public administrations contributions should be decreasing. On the other hand, some researchers point out that universities are loosing positions as central institutions of the...

This article shows, in a summarized way, the main conclusions about the state of the art of Knowledge Management subjects on graduate programs. The paper gives a valuation of the level of development of this discipline in the Basque Country, Spain as well as in some prestigious international...

The present work aims at the diagnosis of the capacities of firms from Biscay/Spain to absorb results of R+D generated by universities and other research centres. First of all, in order to identify core characteristics of firms linked to the above mentioned capacity of absorbing results from...

This paper aims to present how knowledge can be managed in a sport team, by using the example of the English national rugby team, which won the World Cup in 2003, under the management/coaching of Clive Woodward. The paper is based on the idea that knowledge management is a key driver of sporting...

Healthcare is a knowledge-intensive service provided by professionals, such as medical doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. Clinical-pathways are used by many healthcare organisations (HCOs) as a tool for performing the healthcare process, sharing and utilising knowledge from different...

This paper examines the benefits of knowledge sharing in virtual teams of companies in Malaysia. The paper also looks into the barriers that prevent or prohibit the practice of knowledge sharing in virtual teams within an organisation. There are basically three types of barriers discussed in...