Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas:
- Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring)
- Organisational learning
- Intellectual capital
- Knowledge economics
Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.
Perhaps as a consequence of this diversity, the knowledge management literature is at present fragmented. Many of the most influential articles on knowledge management appear in journals in fields as diverse as information systems, general management, strategy, organisational sociology or human resources. The literature also often, somewhat misleadingly, presents the subject as split. Current examples of these "splits", which should rather be debates, include those between the "codification" and "collaboration" schools of thought, and between "Western" (meaning North American) and "Eastern" (meaning Japanese) approaches. The intention for this journal is not only to accommodate these and other perspectives, but also to seek common ground between them.
Overall aims and content
To provide an outlet for high-quality, peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of managing knowledge. This will include not just those focused on the organisational level, but all levels from that of the individual to that of the nation or profession. This will include both theoretical and practical aspects, and especially the relationship between the two. There will be a particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches, and on the mixing of "hard" (e.g. technological) and "soft" (e.g. cultural or motivational) issues. Rigorous contributions from both academics and practitioners are welcomed.
Articles may be empirical research papers, theoretical papers, conceptual papers, case studies or surveys.
KMRP will fill the need for a journal specifically concentrating on knowledge management that maintains the highest standards of rigour, and publishes articles that reflect greater multidisciplinary work and/or conceptual integration than those currently published in existing outlets.
A cross-disciplinary focus will also enable articles in the journal to address other important tensions in the field of knowledge management, such as those between:
- Strategy and operations
- People and technology
- Short-term and long-term needs
- The organisation and the individual
Editors
Tom Jackson, Loughborough University, UK
Antti Lönnqvist, Tampere University, Finland
Associate Editors
Valentina Cilla, Pegaso University, Italy
Mai Nguyen, Griffith University, Australia
Consulting Editors
John S. Edwards, Aston University, UK
Giovanni Schiuma, LUM University, Italy
Editorial Board
Ettore Bolisani, University of Padova, Italy
Frada Burstein, Monash University, Australia
Elias G. Carayannis, GWU School of Business, USA
Sven Carlsson, Informatics School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden
Danièle Chauvel, Skema Business School, France
John Dumay, Macquarie University, Australia
Leif Edvinsson, UNIC Stockholm, Sweden
Tatiana Gavrilova, St.Petersburg State University, Russia
Roberto Grandinetti, University of Padova, Italy
James Guthrie, Macquarie University, Australia
Meliha Handzic, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Clyde Holsapple, University of Kentucky, USA
Aino Kianto, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Rongbin W.B. Lee, The Hong Kong Polytecnic University, Hong Kong
Jay Liebowitz, University of Maryland University College, USA
Bashar H. Malkawi, Government of Dubai, UAE
José Viedma Martí, Intellectual Capital Management Systems, Spain
Mariia Molodchik, Higher School of Economics, Russia
Ikujiro Nonaka, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Patricia Ordoñez de Pablos, University of Oviedo, Spain
Rajesh K. Pillania, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India
Rocco Reina, University of Catanzaro - Magna Graecia, Italy
Göran Roos, Economic Development Board, South Australia
Harry Scarbrough, Keele University, United Kingdom
Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge Pte Ltd, UK
JC Spender, Kozminsky University, Poland
Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Krishna Venkitachalam, Estonian Business School (EBS), Estonia
Anthony Wensley, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada
Min-Ren Yan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Tan Yigitcanlar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
JinHyo Joseph Yun, DGIST, South Korea
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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