knowledge management issues in fast growth smes

Knowledge management issues in fast growth SMEs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

Knowledge management issues in knowledge-intensive SMEs

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretitivist approach, using two knowledge-intensive South Yorkshire (England) companies as case studies, both of which are characterised by the need to process and use knowledge on...

Knowledge management and growth in Finnish SMEs

Knowledge Management and Growth in Finnish SMEs Sari Salojärvi, Patrick Furu and Karl-Erik Sveiby Journal of Knowledge Management Vol. 9 No. ?, 2005 Research paper

Knowledge Management Toolkit for SMEs

The discipline of knowledge management is no longer emerging in large organizations, but also small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are focusing on finding the right process that will allow them to make advantages of their intellectual capital. Using survey data from 219 small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria and Switzerland, this chapter illustrates the four key knowledge processes ...

Ontology-based Knowledge Management for SMEs

The OnToBau research project aims to provide a way to classify, archive and effectively use their knowledge with the assistance of an ontology-based knowledge archive for small and medium companies from construction industry. This archive is intended to pro-actively provide users with information to assist them in their daily business process handling. In this paper we describe the architecture...

Funding issues confronting high growth SMEs in the UK