Knowledge management - a brief note

Knowledge management (KM), as a mangement topic, has been studied in Information Management, General Management, and Management Accounting. I want to provide some brief information to you.

A starting point in KM study is to define data, information, knowledge and, finally, wisdom, see Davenport and Prusak (1998; chapter 1). Another major KM topic is on the classification of knowledge, notably on tacit and explicit knowledge.

There are a number of knowledge management models, such as the SECI model of Nonaka and Takeuchi. There are also KM theories that are explicitly related to information systems management, such as Hansen, Nohria and Tierney (1999), Turban et al. (2008; chapter 10) and Kebede (2010). KM has been employed to study Intellectual Capital accounting, see Starvoic and Marr (year unknown).  Major academic journals on knowledge management is Journal of Knowledge Management published by Emerald and Knowledge and Process Management from Wiley.



References

1. Davenport, T.H. and Prusak, L. (1998) Working Knowledge, Harvard Business Press.
2. Hansen, M.T., Nohria, N. and Tierney, T. (1999) "What's your strategy for managing knowledge?", Harvard Business Review, March-April, pp. 106-116.
3. Kebede, G. (2010) "Knowledge management: an information science perspective", International Journal of Information Management 30, pp. 416-424.
4. Starovic, D. and Marr, B. (year unknown) Understanding corporate value: managing and reporting intellectual capital, published by CIMA, UK.
5. Turban, E., Leidner, D. Mclean, E., and Wetherbe, J. (2008) Information Technology for Management, Wiley.