Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of artifacts in the knowledge management field in the past 18 years (1997-2015) and to identify directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a systematic literature review of 101 articles published in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic picture of how and to what extent Cohen and Levinthal’s (1990) seminal article on absorptive capacity was used in knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC) research from 1990 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose This paper assesses the role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts in the knowledge management field. Design/methodology/approach Fifty-eight papers published in six knowledge management-related journals were analyzed. The framework for analysis included 13...

In the last twenty years, debate concerning knowledge management (KM) initiatives in professional settings has become prominent in both academic and practitioners literature. In spite of an increased incidence of KM initiatives in organizational contexts, very few studies were conducted to...

The purpose of this paper is to address the impact of information technology repositories (ITR) in the implementation of KM processes, i.e. knowledge storage and retrieval. A case study design is used. Data are collected through the use of individual semi-structured interviews, observations and...