Human resource management has increasingly become one of the most important challenging issues in the pharmaceutical industry in general and in developing countries in particular to increase the access of societies to needed medicines. In this study, an attempt was made to explore the challenges of human resource management practices surrounding pharmaceutical firms in Iran, as a developing cou...

KMWorld November/December 2006 Andy Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Passing the Cringe Test: Has KM Made It to Prime Time? Once upon a time, saying the words “knowledge management” was the fastest way to get thrown out of a meeting. And not only would you be ejected, you would never be invited back. . . . Paul Sonderegger, Endeca . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 People Judge Rele...

Successful managers focus their attention on factors that are critical in establishing and maintaining an organisation’s competitive edge. The knowledge and skill of employees is one of those factors and it requires proactive management attention. Conceptually, this is achieved through Knowledge Management, a term that has existed in the mainstream of business lexicon for quite some time. Despi...

In this paper we take a CSCW perspective on knowledge management, looking at it at the level of daily work practice in two different contexts – project management and engineering design work. Special attention is paid to the diversity of artefacts central to knowledge management. Our analysis makes use of fieldwork in two companies. We use the notion of vignettes to illustrate a variety of know...

Thanks to extension of IT in educational activities, the difficulties based on time and space are disappearing and the management and the execution of these activities can be implemented more effectively and beneficially. Even though there are significant developments about e-learning both in academic and professional platforms, there are some main questions that must be considered like: How ca...

This paper aims at answering the question: How do “third generation knowledge management concepts” help to understand relational practices in blended contexts of face-to-face interaction and virtual communication? In order to address this question, we firstly explain Scharmer’s Concept of Self-transcending Knowledge and Snowden’s Knowledge-Ecology-Approach ‘Cynefin’ to develop a heuristic for t...

An increasing number of global organizations have adopted knowledge management practices and implemented worldwide knowledge management systems utilizing global communication networks and collaborative technology. The existing literature on knowledge management has focused on a common, firm-wide approach to knowledge sharing. Substantial differences exist, however, among the sub-units within ma...

An increasing number of global organizations have adopted knowledge management practices and implemented worldwide knowledge management systems utilizing global communication networks and collaborative technology. The existing literature on knowledge management has focused on a common, firm-wide approach to knowledge sharing. Substantial differences exist, however, among the sub-units within ma...

This paper is based on the outcomes of a study that explored the knowledge management practices and challenges in an international NGO network. The investigation constituted comparative case studies of two centres (one in Zambia and the other in the Netherlands) belonging to a single international network. An empirically grounded framework of knowledge management practices based on the taxonomy...

This literature review focuses on the best practices for implementing a knowledge management system in a small to medium sized enterprise. The literature helps to illustrate common challenges businesses face when implementing a knowledge management system. Fifteen sources are reviewed and divided into three main categories: (a) challenges in implementing knowledge management systems, (b) best p...