Auch wenn Wissensmanagement (WM) seinen Eingang in die Begriffswelt der mo-dernen Betriebswirtschaft gefunden hat, so ist die Terminologie nicht ganz richtig. Wissen als solches kann man nicht managen, die Wissenden (das Personal) durch-aus. Damit wird der direkte Zusammenhang und die...

Knowledge management methods need to be selected depending on the purpose for which knowledge is 'being managed'. In this article, purpose is considered in terms of encouraging knowledge creation in new product development (NPD) projects. Given that companies have started to deploy a number of...

In this paper, we address the pre-project phase of idea generation in the product innovation process, where the effective generation of new product ideas still remains an issue of high relevance for both management scholars and practitioners. We relate Nonaka and colleagues' four knowledge...