Where The Global Needs The Local: Variation in Enablers in the Knowledge Management Process

Okunoye, Adekunle; Karsten, Helena

doi:10.1080/1097198x.2002.10856329

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“…While organizational culture is imperative to the success of knowledge management initiatives, it is rarely discussed in the knowledge management literature (Mason, 2003). National culture is also seldom discussed in the context of knowledge management (Okunoye & Karsten, 2002;Yoo & Torrey). Okunoye and Karsten found that national culture, when filtered into the organizational culture, can have a great influence on knowledge management.…”

Section: Knowledge Infrastructure Capabilitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…These initiatives cast the World Bank in the role of knowledge broker, transferring knowledge from where it is available to where it is needed on a one-size-fits-all basis (Velden). This model has been criticized for not taking into consideration the contextual differences in regions and countries (Okunoye & Karsten, 2002), and treating knowledge application as an objective, definable, and linear process (Velden). Polanyi (1966) and later others, such as Nonaka (1994) and Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995), made distinctions between two dimensions of knowledge in organizations: tacit and explicit knowledge.…”

Section: Knowledge Management and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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IT capacity building in developing countries: A model of the Maldivian tourism sector

Adam

Urquhart

2007

Information Technology for Development

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Lack of information technology (IT) skills and human capital remain a significant obstacle to the successful implementation of IT projects in developing countries. The model discussed in this article draws on theories of knowledge management and social and human capital, and it has been developed for research in the tourism sector in the Maldives. It is also the first model of IT capacity building, to our knowledge, to be directed at private sector organizations in a developing country. We ground the model in some preliminary findings from our study of the Maldivian tourism sector and draw some initial conclusions about the role of the national context, social capital, knowledge sharing, and geographical isolation when considering IT capacity building for that sector. The model also makes a wider contribution in focusing on an under-researched issue, IT capacity building in developing countries, and by bringing some useful theoretical perspectives to bear on the problem. C 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: Knowledge Infrastructure Capabilitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Knowledge Management and Developmentmentioning

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IT capacity building in developing countries: A model of the Maldivian tourism sector

Adam

Urquhart

2007

Information Technology for Development

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“…Along with competent KM skills, Lee and Choi (2003) point out that the relationships between knowledge enablers (culture, structure, people, and technology) and organizational performance. Likewise, in fostering research agenda of knowledge management, Grover and Davenport (2001) and Okunoye and Karsten (2002) describe the strategy, structure, culture, and technology as the primary sources of its business growth and improved competitiveness.…”

Section: A Resource-based View Of Km and Competitive Advantagementioning

confidence: 98%

A resource-based perspective on knowledge management capability and competitive advantage: an empirical investigation

Chuang

2004

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…Even if initially KM appeared to be adopted only in large, multinational and international companies [9], now it has become the underlying source for successful organisations regardless of their size and geographical locations [10]. KM is beneficial in fields such as banking, telecommunications, production, manufacturing, and even the public sectors [11].…”

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Industrial Knowledge Management Tools Applied to Engineering Education

Bedolla

Rosso

D’Antonio

et al. 2016

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Knowledge is a major source of competitive advantage. Hence, industry has developed tools to capture and reuse its knowledge in the development of new projects and products. Information practices and learning strategies, as Knowledge Management, are gaining acceptance also in the field of education. However, the use of these tools are limited to staff applications and they are not being employed in the university core business: education. This paper shows how a tool to build and validate internal combustion engines, developed in industry, has been successfully integrated into a university course. The learning process has being greatly enriched by the use of this application. Evidence on the planned improvements are also presented.

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Where The Global Needs The Local: Variation in Enablers in the Knowledge Management Process

Cited by 41 publications

References 20 publications

IT capacity building in developing countries: A model of the Maldivian tourism sector

IT capacity building in developing countries: A model of the Maldivian tourism sector

A resource-based perspective on knowledge management capability and competitive advantage: an empirical investigation

Industrial Knowledge Management Tools Applied to Engineering Education

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