This study aimed to determine the knowledge of diabetes, practices of self-management (SM), and potential factors influencing patient knowledge and practices of self-management among individuals with type 2 diabetes in urban Anhui Province, China. A cross-sectional study was conducted between October and November, 2009. Three hundred sixty-five subjects with type 2 diabetes were randomly select...

Contemporary models of knowledge management are often based on attempts to mimic social processes that emerge spontaneously in outside society. This paper explores the issue of how the management of knowledge has increasingly become ‘naturalized’ by importing Japanese management practices. We then discuss how academics and practitioners have extolled the ubiquitous benefits of community approac...

This study examines the role of knowledge management capacity in the relationship between strategic human resource practices and innovation performance from the knowledge-based view. This study uses regression analysis to test the hypotheses in a sample of 146 firms. The results indicate that strategic human resource practices are positively related to knowledge management capacity which, in tu...

in the knowledge-based era, knowledge is considered the most influential asset of successful organizations and knowledge management (km) is their most important function. knowledge creation is one of the most important practices of km and has an influential effect on the innovativeness of organization. knowledge creation is considerably dependent on the employees’ capabilities and readiness. em...

every firm learns through firm specific methods. this learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. this in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. current literature in strategic managem...