AbstrAct This chapter explains knowledge management's (KM) role for competitive advantage as a means of new business requirement in the knowledge-based society. It argues that KM, combined with new information technologies, determines new approaches of business strategy, knowledge leadership, culture, management content, organizational structure, technology and innovation, which are key enabler...

Mitsutaka Kimura, Mitsuhiro Imaizumi and Toshio Nakagawa Department of International Culture Studies, Gifu City Women's College, Gifu, Japan College of Business Administration, Aichi Gakusen University, Toyota, Aichi, Japan Department of Business Administration, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Aichi, Japan (Received February 2009, accepted December 2009) _________________________________...

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a Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan b Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA c Department of Information Management, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan d Department of Accounting, Chinese Culture University, Yang-Ming-Shan, Taipei 11192, ...

Knowledge has been recognized as a critical competitive asset and research about knowledge management (KM) has received increasing attention. However, knowledge has also been viewed not only as an asset, but as a process that includes acquiring, organizing, and communicating the knowledge of organizational members. Additionally, organizational culture has been shown to influence the behaviors c...

In this conceptual paper we look at the impact of culture on ethical decision making from a Douglasian Cultural Theory (CT) perspective. We aim to show how CT can be used to explain the diversity and dynamicity of ethical beliefs and behaviours found in every social system, be it a corporation, a nation or even an individual. We introduce CT in the context of ethical decision making and then us...

While an individual at an organisational interface can display effective supportive, normative relationship behaviour, it is the shared presence of this normative behaviour within organisations that will support effective relationship management practice and performance outcomes. Organisational culture, and its underpinning values, influences behaviour and expectations of individual managers wi...

People belong to different communities: business communities, Web 2.0 communities, just to name a few. In this chapter we show that experience acquired by people in communities constitute community culture. We introduce the problem of culture transfer between or within communities and propose a domain-independent approach for transferring community culture. First, we formalize the notion of cul...

Business Process Management (BPM) has evolved into an important field in Information Systems Research (ISR). While Information Technology (IT) has proven to be a strong driver for business process excellence and innovation, the successful implementation of BPM initiatives essentially depends on soft factors, such as culture in particular. In many cases, cultural aspects are in fact decisive to ...