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Evolution of Knowledge Management in Business

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2017, Engineering Management Research

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While investigating the growth of knowledge management in academic literature and in consultancy firms Wilson (2002) in his article “The nonsense of knowledge management”, argues that the fields of information science and information systems, should clearly distinguish between the term “information” and “knowledge” in order to assure their respective importance within organizations.The purpose of this article is to analyze the evolution of the knowledge management as a field of study that clearly differentiates itself from the information system. It investigates the integration of technology in knowledge creation and identifies progress made in KM on the subject of business using information system with the successful utilization of tacit knowledge concepts.The study consists of a systemic review of articles on knowledge management from Web of Science and Esearch databases since 2003. The study used three search strings “knowledge management”, “knowledge management” and “tacit”, and...

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The search process is presented in Figure |. For this paper, ten recipes were created and executed. The procedure for selecting the papers is as follows.
The search process is presented in Figure |. For this paper, ten recipes were created and executed. The procedure for selecting the papers is as follows.
Table 1. Numbers of articles published in Web of Science and Esearch with “Knowledge Management” in th title A further descriptive statistics analysis for the two databases was also conducted, Table 2, to perform outlier analysis. The outlier analysis, in Table 3, concludes that there are only two outliers (2014 with a very low numbers of articles and 2016 with a very unusual high numbers of articles) in Web of Science and only one outlier (2003, low numbers) in Esearch.
Table 1. Numbers of articles published in Web of Science and Esearch with “Knowledge Management” in th title A further descriptive statistics analysis for the two databases was also conducted, Table 2, to perform outlier analysis. The outlier analysis, in Table 3, concludes that there are only two outliers (2014 with a very low numbers of articles and 2016 with a very unusual high numbers of articles) in Web of Science and only one outlier (2003, low numbers) in Esearch.
Table 2. Descriptive statistics analysis Table 3. Outliers’ identification—IQR analysis
Table 2. Descriptive statistics analysis Table 3. Outliers’ identification—IQR analysis
A further investigation on the areas/subjects, that these KM articles covers, concluded that there is no significant change in the number of articles published with KM in the title in both databases. From Figure 3, it can be observed that in Web of Science, since 2003 KM literature in CS subject area has been decreasing, while KM articles in IS and Business/economy are on the rise with no significant change in KM articles in the engineering area. While in Figure 4, Esearch data is presented that illustrate a very similar trend with CS, IS, Business and Engineering articles. Esearch data also clearly demonstrating the emergence of new subject areas in KM, including higher education, social sciences, medicine etc. Figure 5 illustrate the percentage of articles produce in various subjects with KM in the title from 2003 through 2016.
A further investigation on the areas/subjects, that these KM articles covers, concluded that there is no significant change in the number of articles published with KM in the title in both databases. From Figure 3, it can be observed that in Web of Science, since 2003 KM literature in CS subject area has been decreasing, while KM articles in IS and Business/economy are on the rise with no significant change in KM articles in the engineering area. While in Figure 4, Esearch data is presented that illustrate a very similar trend with CS, IS, Business and Engineering articles. Esearch data also clearly demonstrating the emergence of new subject areas in KM, including higher education, social sciences, medicine etc. Figure 5 illustrate the percentage of articles produce in various subjects with KM in the title from 2003 through 2016.
Figure 3. Subjects range of articles in Web of Science with KM in title
Figure 3. Subjects range of articles in Web of Science with KM in title
Figure 4. Subjects range of articles in Esearch with KM in title
Figure 4. Subjects range of articles in Esearch with KM in title
Figure 5. Subjects range of articles in Esearch with KM in title from 2003-2016
Figure 5. Subjects range of articles in Esearch with KM in title from 2003-2016

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Knowledge management (KM) is one of the newest topics in the present day, and many parts of the business sector have a growing interest in adopting this concept. There are great debates about the concept of KM and its frameworks in organizations. This paper presents a literature review of the notion of knowledge management in the institutional environment. First, it discusses the various definitions of knowledge management. Then, it follows with an overview of knowledge management background. Finally, it highlights the great debates of knowledge management in some conceptual foundations and authors evaluations, including tacit and explicit knowledge.

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Tacit vs. explicit knowledge - the current approaches to knowledge management
Charles Egbu

The use of computers has over the last two decades led to the dominance of a database-centred view of organisational information resources. It is this school of thought that has become the focal point of many conceptualisations of knowledge management (KM). Many proponents of this school of thought propagate the development and implementation of KM databases. But knowledge is more organic than mechanical. Therefore, substituting database structures for the people who actually creates organisational knowledge will ultimately remove the intrinsic meaning of knowledge. This paper, based on an ongoing doctoral work, takes a dichotomous view of knowledge as either explicit or tacit and argues that the management of tacit knowledge, so far neglected in the literature on KM, is very important in conferring competitive advantages on organisations. Using empirical results from the research, it reveals the advantages of managing tacit knowledge. These benefits range from better customer service to prevention of project period escalation and improved workmanship. This paper concludes that behavioural approach to KM ensures that employees, who are the source of organisational knowledge, are well motivated to 'go the extra mile' in pursuit of organisational goals.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT
Anita Cucovic, Geo - See

http://mmm-gi.blogspot.com/p/no3year-2013.html, 2014

Abstract:It is an undisputed fact that this is the age of knowledge and a time of constant changes which are unpredictable. The globalisation trends and ever increasing networking of economy, information, technology, management (…) give rise to intellectual and group knowledge, namely to intellectual capital as the nonmaterial part of an organisation’s capital. Formal education is not sufficient, and further training is required in line with contemporary requirements which the market imposes, in addition to it not providing development of personal skills which are necessary in everyday management, and which in synergy with professional knowledge provide for the proper results. Today, knowledge represents the most important capital of an enterprise, and it is necessary to develop an efficient and effective system of managing this resource, as it is that in particular which provides greater productivity, innovation, more qualitative performance of business activities, and provides competitive advantage. In previous periods the emphasis within organisations was on technology and technological changes, while today, in the age of knowledge technology continues to be important, but only as a product of internal engagement of intellectual capacities. Therefore, this imposes the fact that only through successful knowledge management enterprises are able to successfully manage their business.

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introduction of knowledge management
maryam hassanzadeh
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