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 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....

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to design a model and tools that are capable of representing and handling personal knowledge in different degrees of structuredness and formalisation, and usable and extensible by end‐users. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the results...

Purpose – This paper aims to argue that individuals' use of personal knowledge management systems (PKMS) differs significantly as a result of their underlying innovativeness and involvement traits. Based on the literature, this paper seeks to propose that while more involved users utilise PKMS...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to further explore the emerging concept of personal knowledge management (PKM) and to bring researchers’ attention to this notion. Specifically, this paper aims to address issues related to the effective utilisation of technology in PKM practices....