Today's competitive environment is more knowledge intensive than ever, showing continuous shifts in business process that characterizes the current "Knowledge Age." In order to introduce KM and to develop the right culture for knowledge sharing, OMV E&P has embarked on an ambitious program. One of key KM initiatives has been to establish Communities of Practice (CoPs) which are rolled out to al...

The digital economy is based on knowledge and the ultimate objective is the reinforcement of performance. The business strategy has been shifted from the management of tangible assets to intangible resources and the traditional competitive position of business units is based on their capacity for effective action. The main conclusion is that a knowledge and learning management infrastructure is...

Knowledge plays an important role to the success of any organization. Software development organizations are highly knowledge-intensive organizations especially in their requir ement elicitation process (REP). There are several problems regarding communicating and u sing the knowledge in R EP such as misunderstanding, being out of scope , conflicting information and changes of requirements. All...

Knowledge is essential for the functioning of every social system, especially for professionals in knowledge-intensive organizations. Since individuals do not possess all the work-related knowledge that they require, they turn to others in search for that knowledge. While prior research has mainly focused on antecedents and consequences of knowledge sharing and understanding why people do not s...

The concept of a knowledge intensive firm (KIF) is seemingly an important category of organizations that is being increasingly studied. The underlying inference from the literature is that the KIF constitutes a category of organizations that is distinct and different from other organizational categories. The research reported in this paper explores how scholars are using the concept in their st...

Organizations are faced today with an increasing amount of information. This information overload leads more and more to wrong decisions and has therefore economic consequences. Especially decision-makers and knowledge intensive workers are affected. This work introduces information demand pattern for teams in order to improve the information flow in the knowledge intensive field of project man...

How organizations create, transfer, and retain knowledge has been the focus of intensive investigation by management researchers for some time. However, one aspect of the dynamics of knowledge – forgetting – has received comparatively little attention. In this article, we discuss the role of forgetting in the dynamics of organizational knowledge. Based on an exploratory, multiple case study of ...

This paper contributes to the emerging ‘historic turn’ in organizational analysis identified by Booth & Rowlinson (2006) by developing an historicised account of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs). In a way parallel to McGrath’s (2005) study of early medieval Irish monastic communities as KIOs, we provide a study of Bletchley Park (BP), the WW2 codebreaking centre. In particular, we argue...

In this article we argue for the central role of conversations in knowledge sharing. Given the importance attributed to conversations in the literature, but also the many conversational routines that often prevent knowledge sharing, an integrative approach for the management of knowledge-intensive conversations is needed. We review the literature on conversations in organizations in order to de...

Knowledge flows among organizations play a key role in the evolution of industries and firms in the information economy. In this paper we develop an evolutionary agent-based simulation model derived from a knowledge-based theoretical framework, the I-Space, and use it to explore the effect of knowledge management strategies on the evolution of a group of knowledge-intensive organizations locate...