Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management

This paper critically examines the term "knowledge management" (KM), its components, and the initiatives of a number of organizations that parade as knowledge management pioneers and catalysts, as well as the concept of tacit knowledge. The concept of knowledge management is examined in...

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Main Author: Ndubisi, Nelson Oly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2004
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/35744/1/AAMJ_9-1-3.pdf
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description This paper critically examines the term "knowledge management" (KM), its components, and the initiatives of a number of organizations that parade as knowledge management pioneers and catalysts, as well as the concept of tacit knowledge. The concept of knowledge management is examined in the web sites of consultancy firms, information practitioners, and other firms that claim to have benefited immensely by implementing knowledge management solutions. In addition a pool of experienced academicians was interviewed to get their views on knowledge management and to furnish information on the knowledge management initiatives in their department/unit etc. The observation made is that the firms are either managing information under the knowledge management nomenclature or managing work practices by instituting an information sharing culture. It is concluded that information management (IM) has been searched and replaced with KM. There is no value added to warrant KM to be an emerging field of management, even the ontology and epistemology of KM at best is ill-defined. In fact KM has no intrinsic meaning
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spelling usm.eprints-357442017-07-20T08:37:03Z http://eprints.usm.my/35744/ Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management Ndubisi, Nelson Oly HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management This paper critically examines the term "knowledge management" (KM), its components, and the initiatives of a number of organizations that parade as knowledge management pioneers and catalysts, as well as the concept of tacit knowledge. The concept of knowledge management is examined in the web sites of consultancy firms, information practitioners, and other firms that claim to have benefited immensely by implementing knowledge management solutions. In addition a pool of experienced academicians was interviewed to get their views on knowledge management and to furnish information on the knowledge management initiatives in their department/unit etc. The observation made is that the firms are either managing information under the knowledge management nomenclature or managing work practices by instituting an information sharing culture. It is concluded that information management (IM) has been searched and replaced with KM. There is no value added to warrant KM to be an emerging field of management, even the ontology and epistemology of KM at best is ill-defined. In fact KM has no intrinsic meaning Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2004 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/35744/1/AAMJ_9-1-3.pdf Ndubisi, Nelson Oly (2004) Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 9 (1). pp. 1-24. ISSN 1394-2603 http://web.usm.my/aamj/9.1.2004/AAMJ%209-1-3.pdf
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Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title_full Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title_fullStr Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title_short Knowledge Management: A Case Of "Search And Replace Marketing" Or An Emerging Field Of Management
title_sort knowledge management a case of search and replace marketing or an emerging field of management
topic HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
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