Visualizing the Academic Discipline of Knowledge Management

Peng, Wang; Zhu, Fei; Song, Haoyang; Hou, Jianhua; Zhang, Jinlan

doi:10.3390/su10030682

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“…Besides, while the literature on the background of knowledge-sharing has been continuously growing since 2000, the results of studies are becoming more complex and cross-disciplinary, especially in works done on the motivators of online knowledge-sharing at the individual level [54][55][56] and the impact of knowledge-sharing on resource-or capability-based competitive advantages at the firm level [90,91]. Prior research has stressed investigations of the relationships between knowledge-sharers within a group (e.g., opinion leaders) and their influence on other online group users (e.g., in-group members) in the context of online communities; however, opinion leaders' cross-group influence on knowledge-sharing engagement at the group level has rarely been studied thoroughly [92].…”

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Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

Liu

Zhang

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Sustainability

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Opinion leaders often play key roles in online knowledge-sharing communities, which has intrigued a lot of researchers and practitioners worldwide. However, it is not clear how various characteristics of opinion leaders may affect different online groups’ knowledge-sharing engagement. This paper aims to answer this question by building upon social capital theory to examine the differential influences of opinion leaders’ characteristics (interactivity, authority, and activity) on online groups. In-groups and out-groups were distinguished, and the study used the context of an investment-oriented online knowledge-sharing community. By leveraging a unique aggregated group-level secondhand dataset collected from Snowball.com, we conducted log-linear and Poisson regression models. The results revealed that the intensity of online group knowledge-sharing engagement was heavily contingent upon the types of characteristics of opinion leaders. We found that in-group knowledge-sharing engagement (generating new knowledge) was driven by an opinion leader’s interactivity and authority, whereas out-group knowledge-sharing engagement (developing new members) could not be facilitated by these types of characteristics. Instead, the opinion leader’s activity hindered out-group users from joining in-groups. The study also identified a “mutual promotion” issue, which was generated from the association between in-group and out-group knowledge-sharing engagement.

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Section: Online Groups: In-groups and Out-groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…They found that the top two subject terms were: "information resources management" (555 articles) and "information science" (417 articles). More recently, Wang, Zhu, Song, Hou, and Zhang (2018) found that "Information Science/Library Science" was second (1723 articles, 22.6% of the total) in terms of being in the top 30 KM categories ranked by the number of publications. "Management" was the first subject category with 2334 articles (30.6% of the total).…”

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“…"Management" was the first subject category with 2334 articles (30.6% of the total). Wang et al (2018) also visualized the academic discipline of KM by showing the co-words network of author keywords in KM articles published from 1974-2017. Goswami and Agrawal (2018) looked at where KM articles were published in 11 key journals over the years.…”

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The next generation of knowledge management: Implications for LIS educators and professionals

Liebowìtz

Paliszkiewicz

2019

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Knowledge management (KM) has been an evolving field over the past 35 years. We have seen the field emerge from developing the institutional memory of the organization to increasing innovation to building more internal and external effectiveness. The Library and Information Science (LIS) community has had a great role to play in KM, and as we reflect on the progress of KM over the years, we can learn from our past and project towards the future. The aim of the paper is to present the overview: what is the history, what is the situation now and what is the future of knowledge management in the next five years.

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“…KM is crucial for organizations that want to achieve effectiveness and efficiency. KM has proved to be useful to organizations in a fast-changing environment [6,7]. This paper is divided into six sections.…”

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Barriers to Knowledge Management in the Health Sector of Pakistan

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Knowledge management (KM) is the source for creating a sustainable competitive advantage, and it helps the organizations to retain, develop, organize and utilize their knowledge. Due to globalization, the organizations must maintain their knowledge assets to survive. Many organizations have realized the potential of KM and are applying it. Since the healthcare industry is growing significantly, it is continuously generating a wealth of knowledge. This knowledge can be recorded, communicated and used by many health care professionals with the help of KM. There is a wealth of research on KM in healthcare of developed countries, but very few studies regarding KM implementation can be found in developing countries i.e., Pakistan. Pakistan is now looking towards the implementation of KM; it is in its initial stages. The implementation of KM in the healthcare of Pakistan is affected by different barriers. In this study, the barriers will be identified and analyzed. An interrelationship between the barriers will be determined, and how the different barriers support each other (driving power), and how they influence each other (dependence power). The results of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and MICMAC (Matrice d'Impacts croises-multipication appliqué an classment i.e., cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification) approach show that lack of support from top management, insufficient strategic planning and lack of support from organizational structure are the main barriers to KM adoption in the healthcare of Pakistan. This study provides a solution in determining the main barriers that need to be solved first, and to ensure effective implementation of KM in the healthcare of Pakistan.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4155 2 of 22 KM is being used by various fields such as business, public policy, and information science. A multi-sectorial survey (consisting of organizations from healthcare, manufacturing, retail/wholesale, utilities and telecommunication, financial services and other sectors) revealed that 43% of organizations have a KM initiative in place, and one in ten considered knowledge management to be transforming the way they do business [8]. The healthcare industry, however, is a late adopter of the KM concept compared to the business sector [9]. Researchers and scholars have recently started working on KM for the healthcare industry; KM has quickly and swiftly made its way into the organizational and managerial processes of the healthcare sector [10].In recent years, the healthcare industry has grown exponentially; it is generating a lot of knowledge. The doctors and researchers in the medical field are continuously learning about new diseases, treatments, and care pathways. To capture this knowledge, the healthcare industry is methodically trying to adopt knowledge management (KM) because the customers are expecting to receive better healthcare services. To provide better health service, KM is an appropriate strategy [11,12] to transform the current traditional system of knowledge sharing. KM he...

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Visualizing the Academic Discipline of Knowledge Management

Cited by 43 publications

References 63 publications

Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

The next generation of knowledge management: Implications for LIS educators and professionals

Barriers to Knowledge Management in the Health Sector of Pakistan

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