Purpose – The author aims to introduce this themed issue on personal knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – The author discusses some of the issues surrounding personal and organisational knowledge management, and then introduces the papers in this themed issue. Findings –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the successful management of creative employees in organisations that rely extensively on the development of intellectual capital must incorporate new thinking to manage the inevitable paradoxical situations that arise in such contexts....

Purpose – The aim of the research is to identify the knowledge management (KM) governance configuration of an organisation and to investigate its impact on the development of knowledge management in the organisation. Design/methodology/approach – Case research methodology has been adopted...

Purpose – To establish and sustain their KM programs organisations need to establish mechanisms to ensure their governance. KM programs require business integration, senior management involvement and decision making authority. The present research aims to investigate the KM governance...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to emphasise the importance of a complex view of communication for the development of personal knowledge management (PKM) and for the technology that supports PKM. Design/methodology/approach – This conceptual paper uses complex responsive process theory...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relationship between personal knowledge management (PKM) and organisational knowledge management (OKM). Design/methodology/approach – Based on the proposed framework of PKM and OKM, the author has analytically modelled and studied the strategies of...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how online communities of practice facilitate the embedding of personal professional knowledge in a complex online environment. Design/methodology/approach – This research consisted of exploratory, interpretivist case research, using qualitative...

Purpose – Adopting a personal knowledge management (PKM) scope, this paper aims to report the resulting experience of a four‐year qualitative research project on the dynamics of social skills development strategies in knowledge‐intensive, e‐learning workplace environments....