This paper focuses on exploring the functions of education and the concept of knowledge in Islam. The importance of … function of education in Islam takes the environment into consideration. It depends on reward and punishment, and upon the … intelligence in education. It further discovered that Islam encourages scientific curriculum and accepts scientific explanations …

To underpin the importance of knowledge, the European commissioner for science and research Janez Potocnic confirms … that in today's global world, generating new knowledge and turning it into new products and services is crucial to enhance … competitiveness. (Potocnic, 2007) In distinguishing between the linear notion of knowledge transfer and the business success attached …

Dominant research streams in the knowledge transfer field, such as the positivist and social constructionist approaches …, largely assume that knowledge transfer is accomplished through instructions and/or socially constructed practices. Underlying … enable an unproblematic knowledge transfer. In contrast, we argue that the decoding of information into meaningful knowledge …

To date, there is an identifiable disunion in literature as to where the locus of attention for knowledge transfer … should be. Felin and Hesterly, (2007) remark that knowledge is created and initiated at the organisational level. Conversely …, (Inkpen and Dinur, 1998) indicate that knowledge creation is initiated and knowledge transfer is conducted at the individual …

contrast with the open tradition upheld by Miguel de Unamuno that would be eagerly taken up by Spanish philosophy in the … twentieth century. From the perspective of that philosophy it is, therefore, worth asking whether all of those aspects and …

In this discussion, we reflect on the value given to knowledge in a business context and deliberate a contrary … philosophical perspective which does not conform to prevailing knowledge theory. We consider why, if knowledge is key for business … success and competitive advantage, the transfer of knowledge within an organisation remains problematic. Whereby, if the …