Knowledge is a fundamental asset for firms in the contemporary economy. Promoting knowledge sharing within organizations is an increasingly important challenge for managers. Past literature in organizational studies has focused on personal motivations to explain knowledge sharing behaviors. We see an organization as consisting of multiple networks simultaneously, e.g. informational, structural,...

This study is focused on the potentiality and benefits that intelligent learning systems can bring to knowledge intensive organizations, in particularly software houses. Therefore the authors will present a conceptual model for the foundation of specialized knowledge systems with dynamic content regulation, oriented to self-learning. Its structure is based on the combination of semantic technol...

Organizations experience today an increasing amount of information, which leads to a perceived information overload. This information overload is the cause for more and more wrong decisions and has therefore economic consequences. Especially decision-makers and knowledge intensive workers are affected. They often work in teams with several persons who have to share information relevant for thei...

Efficient and effective knowledge management plays an increasingly important role in knowledge intensive organizations. That’s because on the one hand knowledge workers need more and more knowledge to fulfil their daily work and on the other hand because the ad hoc part of a process increases. In addition the knowledge acquisition for the knowledge workers is increasingly catchier because of th...

English) This paper introduces the Strategic Capacity Planning problem in knowledge intensive organizations (KIOs) and proposes a classification scheme based on different characteristics such as the organization structure, the workforce characteristics, the capacity requirements, the capacity decisions or the evaluation criteria, among others. The classification, which gives rise to a high numb...

Going offshore has become a norm in current software organizations due to several benefits like availability of competent people, cost, proximity to market and customers, time and so on. Despite the fact that Global Software Engineering (GSE) offers many benefits to software organizations but it has also created several challenges/issues for practitioners and researchers like culture, communica...

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss the critical issue of learning and knowledge convergence in knowledge-intensive organizations, and to provide practical guidelines for effective strategies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper brings together previous research in knowledge management and provides a critique for the lack of integration of previous studies with learning, a key process for e...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)  has become a competitive strategy that allows organizations to position themselves within their market of action. In addition, the evolution, advancement use ICTs any type organization have created new domains interest. this context, Knowledge-intensive software engineering applications are becoming crucial in suppo...

In the knowledge economy, a firm’s intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage. Intellectual capital manifests itself, predominantly, in the individual and collective competencies of employees in organizations. Hence, the ability to learn and to manage learning becomes critical to the success of organizations. Firm’s adopting knowledge management initiat...