This paper examines the causes of knowledge loss in a company undergoing a process of radical change. Using a … methodology based on a single case study, the research highlights the critical role of middle managers in facilitating knowledge … transfer. Middle managers facilitate both socialisation mechanisms for knowledge transfer and the maintenance of knowledge …

Information technology (IT) has a crucial role in knowledge management (KM), as the facilitator or enabler. To find the …

In the knowledge economy era, the library will play a very crucial role in the further extension and modification of … knowledge. The growing need for knowledge management has influenced every component and operation of a library. Knowledge … of conceptual changes involved in the practices of library management to their transition of knowledge management and …

This paper begins with a review of knowledge management (KM) literature, which highlights the problem that KM is … knowledge and the nature of knowing. Up until the mid-1990s, knowledge was defined as a "thing". In the late 1990s, there was a … call to define knowledge not as a "thing" but as "flows". The theories of Dervin and Snowden belong to the latter school of …

of cooperative alliances in the innovation, knowledge management and decision-making associated with the development of …

Managing knowledge of plant maintenance in a power utility company is vital to the provision of a safe and reliable …. Knowledge auditing is usually carried out as the first critical step in the implementation of any Knowledge Management … programmes in power utility companies. Although various knowledge auditing approaches have been proposed by some researchers and …

creatively in order to help their agencies stand out. Efforts include tapping not only into the knowledge of their employees but … also knowledge of their consumers. Utilising qualitative methods, with a highly successful non-profit agency, this document … investigates the information sharing activities and the knowledge gained from consumers when knowledge transfer backflow was …

Knowledge management (KM) systems are increasingly gaining importance in practice and in research. However, research in … development from principles of practical KM. In conjunction with field work with "knowledge practitioners" we have conducted a …

quality of the users. Since the knowledge of operating ERP system is difficult to be acquired, shared and diffused among the … users, it takes time and money to train well-experienced users. As a result, this paper presents a framework of Knowledge … achieving three perspectives, which includes the knowledge acquisition, knowledge diffusion and performance measurement …