Culture is often seen as the key inhibitor of effective knowledge sharing. A study of companies where sharing knowledge is built into the culture found that they did not change their culture to match their knowledge management initiatives. They adapted their approach to knowledge management to...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine, develop and establish understanding of the management of knowledge innovation (KI). Design/methodology/approach – This article first describes the emergence of knowledge management (KM) as the next likely source of competitive advantage....

Purpose – Aims to provide an understanding on IS/IT professionals' intentions to share and reuse knowledge in the context of information technology service operations. Design/methodology/approach – The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is applied for examining IS/IT professionals' intention...

Purpose – This paper aims at presenting the functional model of a “sense‐emerging assistant knowledge management system” (SEA‐KMS) intended to assist the emergence of sense in activities supporting the user in the attribution of full sense to what he is doing....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore cultural factors influencing knowledge sharing strategies in virtual communities of practice. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative research design was employed. Data collection was based on in‐depth interviews. The authors assumed...

Purpose – How companies can become better at knowing what they know, and share what they know have in recent years become dominant fields of research within knowledge management. The literature focuses on why people share knowledge, or why they fail to share knowledge, whilst the discussion of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the self‐efficacy model to compare knowledge‐sharing activities in the Open Source community versus those in a traditional organization. Design/methodology/approach – Current literature on tacit knowledge sharing and information about the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to empirically test and find the correlation between knowledge characteristics and relationship ties on project performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via personal interviews based on a structured survey of project managers in a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper, drawing as it does on earlier research, is to provide the context for a discussion on the use of rewards and recognition programmes in knowledge aware organisations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper shows that knowledge sharing is the fundamental...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the association between the strength of different types of ties with the sharing of different kinds of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the association of ties with the sharing of different types of knowledge was...