The relationship between knowledge management (KM) and firm performance has been the subject of some discussion in information systems literature. However, direct links from KM to firm performance have been hard to find. This lack of linkage between KM and firm performance resulted in some further research into the intermediate organizational variables through which KM could influence firm perf...

Knowledge Management (KM) governance is the implementation of authority through a framework to ensure the delivery of anticipated or predicted benefits of KM strategy development and implementation in an authorized and regulated manner. KM governance also relies on measurement and evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of all aspects of KM, particularly the outcomes of strategy implemen...

Knowledge management (KM) is the subject of much literature, discussion, planning and some action. Effectively implementing a sound KM strategy and becoming a knowledge-based company is seen as a mandatory condition of success for organizations as they enter the era of the knowledge economy. Yet KM remains a broadly illdefined term, with many, often disparate management theories, applications a...

To deliver tangible sustainability outcomes, the infrastructure sector of the construction industry needs to build capacities for the creation, application and management of ever increasing knowledge. This paper intends to establish the importance and key issues of promoting sustainability through knowledge management (KM). It presents a new conceptual framework for managing sustainability know...

Ontologies have been recognized as a fundamental infrastructure for advanced approaches to Knowledge Management (KM) automation, and the conceptual foundations for them have been discussed in some previous reports. Nonetheless, such conceptual structures should be properly integrated into existing ontological bases, for the practical purpose of providing the required support for the development...

Considering knowledge management (KM) in alliances has become increasingly important regarding the key role of knowledge as an essential resource shared through collaboration. However, alliance partners always find it challenging to successfully manage the knowledge acquired by cooperation. In particular, small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) that suffer from resource and expertise scarcity...

Cop In recent years, there has been a growing pressure on business schools to make their research more useful to practitioners. Consequently, the AASCB International dedicated an entire report to the subject. In order to assess the relevance of knowledge management/intellectual capital (KM/IC) research, 12 semi-structured interviews were undertaken with KM/IC professionals. Based on the finding...

This paper introduces a new view point in knowledge management by introducing KM-Services as a basic concept for Knowledge Management. This text discusses the vision of service oriented knowledge management (KM) as a realisation approach of process oriented knowledge management. In the following process oriented knowledge management as it was defined in the EU-project PROMOTE (IST-1999-11658) i...

This study is centred on the premise that knowledge is personalised information which can be enriched through the process of learning, then shared and applied to practical situations to attain value. To highlight the complex nature of knowledge management (KM) as a set of practices aimed to enhance collaboration, the concept of a Collaborative Learning Ecosystem (CLES) is presented as holistic ...

Knowledge management and more generally systems dealing with information creation, storage and retrieval are supposed to be a key factor for firms’ success. However, enthusiasm about their introduction is often paralleled by disenchantment and delusion about their effectiveness and real use. Taking such failures seriously, we investigate reasons leading to success or failure of KM dissemination...