Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer

Identifying Competitive Advantage
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-60566-790-4
Verlag: Information Science Reference

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1418 g

Reihe: Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management

Strategists describe networking and being able to access knowledge as the leading path to gaining a competitive advantage. ""Cultural Implications of Knowledge Sharing, Management and Transfer: Identifying Competitive Advantage"" gathers contributions of scholars from multi-disciplinary fields to illustrate, compare, and discuss models, perspectives, and approaches involved in the distribution, administration, and transmission of knowledge across organizations. Containing research from leading international experts, this defining reference collection offers diverse viewpoints and depicts possible trajectories of future development in achieving competitive advantage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harorimana, Deogratias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Competitive advantage Cultural impact on knowledge management Cultural knowledge as capital Impression management Knowledge management frameworks Knowledge management landscape Knowledge networks Knowledge sharing Knowledge transfer Tacit knowledge

Über Autor(innen)

Deogratias Harorimana completed his PhD in knowledge management around the topic of the role of gatekeepers in the knowledge creation and transfer process at Southampton Solent University and Nottingham Trent University following an earlier undergraduate at Southampton Solent University-then, called Southampton institute. Recently, Dr. Harorimana became the deputy chief executive officer (CEO) in charge of human capital and institutional development within the newly created Rwanda Development Board (RDB). Previously, Dr. Harorimana was a lecturer on knowledge and competitiveness, information management at Southampton Solent University (UK). Prior to that, Deo worked in the Viva Group in its arm of healthcare insurance. He has been chair of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain research group (post graduate forum) since 2006. He became a committee member on the Research and Higher Education Division of the Society in 2007. In 2006, he became an executive committee member (ACL Ltd) and programme co-chair for the 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management (Southampton, UK). Dr. Harorimana has published books and journal articles and regularly speaks at internationally respected academic and practitioner's knowledge management conferences in the area of knowledge management in general, particularly on knowledge networks, knowledge gatekeepers, identity and culture, impact of culture on knowledge transfer, and indigenous knowledge management.