Knowledge Management and Business Strategies: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Research

Knowledge Management and Business Strategies: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Research

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Release Date: November, 2007|Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 428
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-486-6
ISBN13: 9781599044866|ISBN10: 1599044862|EISBN13: 9781599044880
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Description:

The growing awareness of the crucial role that knowledge can play in gaining competitive advantage has lead businesses to confront how to build competitive business strategy around a firm's intellectual resources and capabilities, and how to define and guide the processes and infrastructure for managing organizational knowledge.

Knowledge Management and Business Strategies: Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Research provides researchers and practitioners fundamental business and management knowledge by exploring relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of knowledge and knowledge management strategies and their formulation and alignment with organizations' competitive business strategies.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Activity Domain Theory
  • Core KM competencies
  • KM infrastructure
  • KM services integration
  • Knowledge Management Strategy
  • Knowledge socialization
  • Knowledge strategic alignment
  • Knowledge Transfer
  • Leadership in KM
  • Organizational KM
  • Organizational Readiness
  • Performance Enhancement through KM
  • Strategic innovation management
  • Theories and frameworks of KM
Reviews & Statements

This book provides an overview of the most recent research in the area of knowledge and knowledge management strategies formulation and how to align them with an organization's business strategy. In addition, each chapter provides insight into possible future research directions.

– El-Sayed Abou-Zeid, Concordia University, Canada

Students, researchers, and professors of management and organizational development will find some good theoretical background about knowledge management and business alignment strategies in this publication. The book is recommended for business and academic libraries.

– American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 39

Abou-Zeid compiles 12 chapters and five selected readings that explain organizational knowledge management, strategies, and their alignment.

– Book News Inc. (2008)

The Value of the book lies in the great coverage in the latest thinking and large collection of the developed frameworks in the area not to mention the highly sophisticated conceptual debates and in-depth exploration. The extensive coverage and the level of detail it carries offers a one-store-for-all collection.

– Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 60, No.2

Students, researchers, and professors of management and organizational development will find some good theoretical background about knowledge management and business alignment strategies in this publication. The book is recommended for business and academic libraries.

– American Reference Annual, Vol. 40 (2009)
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El-Sayed Abou-Zeid is associate professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and MIS, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. His current research interests include alignment of knowledge and business strategies, cultural aspects of knowledge of knowledge management processes, design theory for knowledge management support systems. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practice and others. In addition, he has published over 35 refereed conference papers in proceedings such as IFIP, HICSS, IEEE, IRMA and ISAT.

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