It is a pleasure to introduce this special issueon knowledge-based development. I wouldlike to congratulate the Guest … Editor -Professor Francisco Javier Carrillo, Directorfor Knowledge Systems, ITESM, Mexico -for suggesting the topic …

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the relationship between explicit and tacit knowledge in specific organizational … can be learnt from them and to improve the use of knowledge assets in large‐scale organizations in high‐velocity and … from the public sector and the private sector and provides a model for knowledge management in high velocity …

sustain their competitive advantage, the knowledge and expertise of an organisation’s staff needs to be seen as a critical … strategic resource. This paper presents a general overview of knowledge management and discusses the transfer of knowledge and … assignments in transferring knowledge and furthermore on the implications for HRM practices to ensure the successful and effective …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to expose the power of informal control mechanisms over explicit knowledge transfer …/methodology/approach – The research used a case study approach consistent with the purpose of exploring control/knowledge transfer relationships …-up, knowledge transfer barriers are overcome, quality of outcomes is increased and new and incremental knowledge innovation is more …

Over the past several years there have been intensive discussions about the importance of knowledge management within … our society. The management of knowledge is promoted as an important and necessary factor for organisational survival and …, and utilise their employees’ capabilities. Knowledge and the management of knowledge appear to be regarded as increasingly …

This article discusses both the management of tacit knowledge and the tacit approach to knowledge management. Tacit … knowledge must be made manageable by being explicated and separated from the knowledge workers, so that the knowledge resources … do not go home at night. However, the less knowledge leaving in the evening, the less knowledge will return the following …

Considers some external aspects influencing the dynamics of firms’ knowledge base. Argues that the successful … management of the knowledge base in a fast changing innovative environment is closely related to three kinds of knowledge … of scientific knowledge which allows us to analyse how different types of knowledge are associated with different …

proliferation of inter‐organizational collaborative agreements, which aim to develop, manufacture and commercialize knowledge … intensive products. The decision within a knowledge management (KM) framework to collaborate in knowledge sharing networks …. The present study deals with questions such as why, how, and when to be a member of a knowledge network and provides some …

In the emerging economy, knowledge is now recognized as an important basis for competitive advantage and many firms are … beginning to establish knowledge management systems (KMS). Within the last few years, although the topic of knowledge management … limited. This paper presents a model of the enterprise’s knowledge trees, which is related to several knowledge management …

Knowledge has been theorized as being an elementary form of organization in the so‐called knowledge management … literature. Although there are numerous analytical strengths in this literature, a reductionist view of knowledge dominates the … field. From a reductionist view, knowledge is an extension from data and information. As opposed to this image of knowledge …