In the struggle to gain and sustain competitive advantages, companies develop certain resource bundles (known as strategic assets) which are fundamental to firm performance. More often than not, these strategic assets are knowledge-based assets involving organizational processes and human and social capital as opposed to physical assets. Increasingly, companies are turning to project management...

Knowledge management has the potential to develop strategic advantage and enhance the performance of an organization in terms of productivity and business process efficiency. For this reason, organizations are contributing significant resources to knowledge management; investing in information location and implementing knowledge management processes and systems. However, most of these processes...

The successful implementation of new technologies is dependent on many factors including the efficient management of human resources. Furthermore, recent research indicates that intellectual assets and resources can be utilised much more efficiently and effectively if organisations apply knowledge management techniques for leveraging their human resources and enhancing their personnel managemen...

In recognizing knowledge as a new resource in gaining organizational competitiveness, knowledge management suggests a method in managing and applying knowledge for improving organizational performance. Much knowledge management research has focused on identifying, storing, and disseminating process related knowledge in an organized manner. Applying knowledge to decision making has a significant...

abstract in the third millennium, knowledge management was introduced as a strategic need for educational institutions and higher education systeme. in fact, relying on human capital, ideas and information, will ensure long term excellence of the organizations and communities. nowadays, it has been possible to enhance higher education and research capabilities and skills through wise utilizati...

in today’s global economy, the fundamental attribute of competitiveness have been driven from pecuniary capital to knowledge capital so that knowledge is known as the unique strategic resource to acquire competitive advantage. therefore, businesses that efficiently utilize existing knowledge within their organizations are expected to gain comparative advantage over their competitors. this resea...

This paper proposes a Fuzzy Group Decision Approach for making strategic decisions about knowledge management adoption. Most SMEs are suffering because of low profits caused by hyper competition and OEM dead-end. Moreover, since the middle of 2008, the financial tsunami has caused serious damage to the global economy. They lack the financial and systematic basis to introduce knowledge managemen...

This study investigates the effects of two prior knowledge activation strategies, namely, mobilisation and perspective taking, on learning. It is hypothesised that the effectiveness of these strategies is influenced by learners’ prior domain knowledge. More specifically, mobilisation is expected to be the most effective activation strategy at lower levels of prior knowledge. Mobilisation is a b...