A Review of Knowledge Management Models.

Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information t...

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Published in:Journal of International Social Research / Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Vol. 2; no. 9; pp. 187 - 199
Main Authors: Haslinda, A., Sarinah, A.
Format: Article
Published: Journal of International Social Research Nov2009
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Summary:Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings. The purpose of this paper is to critically review the various knowledge management models. The review found that the various knowledge management models varies in perspectives ranging from the basic assumption of the articulation and transfer of tacit and explicit knowledge to the more complex and complicated assumption that knowledge is intellectual capital and it is mechanistic in perspective as well as an important asset that has to be managed efficiently for firm's success.