KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: SELECTED KEY ISSUES AND POSSIBLE RESEARCH AVENUES
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: SELECTED KEY ISSUES AND POSSIBLE RESEARCH AVENUES

Summary/Abstract: Most of the existing literature on knowledge and knowledge management has a Western or Japanese origin. While this literature provides important insights and findings, these may not necessa¬rily be successfully replicable in other contexts and may lose some of their relevance when applied there. Such and similar observations have given a rise to a substantial number of knowledge management studies conducted in non-Western settings, among those transition economies. We highlight three parti¬cular challenges to the knowledge management literature in transition economies: moving beyond the extension of existing knowledge to instead developing contextualized and distinct knowledge; shifting from studying unidirectional knowledge transfer to examining multidirectional knowledge flows; and changing emphasis from studying knowledge transfer to studying knowledge creation.

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