In our experience, corporate eLearning initiatives are often being implemented with too little consideration of organizational issues, such as corporate strategy. As a result, potential benefits of eLearning as a tool for creating organizational competencies are usually not realized to a full extent. Thus, the focus of the present paper is on integrating eLearning and strategic knowledge manage...

Knowledge Management (KM) is the latest managerial buzzword for improving the work processes and creating value for a firm’s operations and development. Firms are showing tremendous interest in implementing KM processes and technologies, and are even beginning to adopt knowledge management as part of their overall business strategy. Thus, the major competitive advantage for a firm lies in the f...

Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos is a professor in the Department of Business Administration and Accountability in the Faculty of Economics at The University of Oviedo (Spain). Her teaching and research interests focus on the areas of strategic management, knowledge management, intellectual capital, and China. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Behaviour and Information Technology journal. Add...

Projects can cause organizations to perform in new ways resulting in the generation of knowledge. Project learning occurs when new knowledge is captured, disseminated, and used by the project team. Y2K utility projects were studied with respect to knowledge benefits and management. Projects from developed countries using western technology were found to have knowledge benefits but their organiz...

Is concerned with human value management, examines the relationships between organizations' competitiveness, innovation advancements, and knowledge management and presents a set of considerations regarding how these relationships affect strategic management and the formulation of competitive strategies. By considering how knowledge development is related with personal characteristics and person...

in today's dynamic and uncertain environment, knowledge is a strategic source for organizations to gain the competitive advantage and innovation. in this research, we have investigated mediating role of knowledge management between environmental uncertainty and organizational innovation. data was collected through questionnaire from 89 large and medium sized manufacturing companies in suburb ma...

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INTRODUCTION Historically, the focus of IT infrastructure has been to capture the knowledge of experts in a centralized repository (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Grover & Davenport, 2001). These centralized databases contained knowledge that was explicit and historical (e.g., competitor pricing, market share), and the IT infrastructure served to facilitate functional decision-making or to automate ...