Within the last few years, knowledge management has become one of the hottest subjects among organisational and information systems theorists and practitioners. Many find in it an amazingly opportunity to bridge the two areas, so many times pursuing common goals following parallel, never matching paths. And they are so absorbed with the new hip that they are letting drop an indissociable concep...

Alliance raises many knowledge transfer and interfirm learning issues that have implications for how the alliance partners manage their cooperative learning activities in the alliance system. Many of these implications are grounded in the assumption that partners in the alliances have routines for transferring knowledge, learning, gaining management efficiencies. Thus organisations can support ...

Although learning from projects has gained much importance in research and practice, progress in understanding and improving inter-project learning appears to be slight. We argue that the adoption of a sender/receiver approach limits the learning effectiveness in project-based organisations. Drawing upon the notion of learning as a social activity embedded in an organisational context, we devel...

Introduction In today's global environment, change rather than stability is the order of the day. Rapid changes in technology, cultural values, social life, competition and citizen/customers' demands have increased the rate at which organisations need to alter their strategies and structures in order to survive and operate successfully. As the pace of change has increased, the importance of pla...

Business and IT alignment is increasingly acknowledged as a key for organisational performance. However, alignment research lack to mechanisms that enable for on-going process with multi-level effects. Multi-level learning allows on-going effectiveness through development of the organisation and improved quality of business and IT strategies. In particular, exploration and exploitation enable e...