Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim to quantitatively evaluate the importance of ICTs for sustainable development. A hypothesis about the criticality of ICTs to sustainable development has been tested. The consequences of other ICT elements on knowledge management also have been...

Traditional organizations with heavy internal competition, rigid functional silos and undue compartmentalization exhibit sub‐optimal performance by inhibiting critical knowledge flows. Cross‐functional teaming attempts to solve this problem by building organizational connections across...

Purpose – Aims to impart new insights into the role of information technology (IT) in knowledge extraction, capture, distribution and personalization. The paper seeks to pin‐point the strengths and weaknesses of IT in the domain of knowledge management (KM) and to explain why the technology...

13 -- Secret of Successful Negotiations: Expand the Pie from the OutsetUpon Reflection…; 14 -- It's Not What You Know, but Who Knows You that Counts the Most; Upon Reflection…; 15 -- Best Answers are Derived from the Right Questions; Upon Reflection…; 16 -- Bring a Solution with Every...

Purpose – To introduce the 2007 annual special issue on knowledge‐based development (KBD), from the perspective of the institutionalization of KBD as a field of study and practice, followed by an outline of the contents. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a discussion of the...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to introduce the 2008 annual special issue on knowledge‐based development (KBD), from the perspective of the construction of an R&D agenda relevant to the international community of knowledge‐based development (KBD) practitioners and researchers....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify viable demarcation criteria for knowledge based development (KBD) with reference to current concepts and practices, as an introduction to the JKM 2009 annual special issue on KBD. Design/methodology/approach – Outlines viable demarcation...

This book explores the role of expatriates in the mobilization and nurturing of knowledge between their original (parent/home) country and the MNCs host countries. This includes the management of knowledge and the tools, methods and practices that can be customized to facilitate the transfer of...

This is the first in a series of studies intended to validate the efficacy of the Enterprise Management Engineering© (EME) approach, a more flexible variation of the usual systems engineering (SE) approach, to KM systems implementation. The study used large US publicly-traded non-financial...

Purpose – The paper seeks to develop a list of operational knowledge assets as antecedents to a validated common taxonomy of intangible strategic value drivers. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative data from focus groups was collected to validate a theory‐based list. The list contains...