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CULTURAL BARRIERS BETWEEN ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
CULTURAL BARRIERS BETWEEN ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Gratiela Dana Boca , Lindita Mukaj, Marsida Viskurti
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: knowledge management; innovation; cultural barriers; organization culture

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the Albanian’s organization culture influences and knowledge management barriers in the small and medium sized enterprises. Taking in consideration the internal and external environment of the SME’s the organization culture becomes a mediator between personal knowledge and organization knowledge. The article identifies the cultural barriers for the knowledge management as: differences between the manager’s actions, the apathy in the dissemination of knowledge, the over appreciation of the technology, the attitude upon the global market. The paper attempts to create a comprehensive model to discover relationship between the components of organizational culture and knowledge management in correlation with the cultural dynamic of a global market in a continuing movement. The foundation of the 21st organization needs a new type a new manufacture for future –MANU-FUTURE, a new organization when money and capital and technology are no longer the key elements, but the culture for activities in knowledge management can be critical and determination.

  • Issue Year: I/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 273-284
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English