Integrating spatial, semantic, and social structures for knowledge management

Knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for organizations. Knowledge embedded in an organization's business processes and an employee's skills provide a rm with unique capabilities for delivering a product or service to customers. Law rms represent an industry which seems very well suited for knowledge management investigation. Law rms are knowledge intensive and the use of advanced technology may transform these organizations in the future. To examine knowledge management in Norwegian law rms, a study which involved two phases of data collection and analysis was designed. The rst phase was a eld study of the largest law rm in Norway. The semi-structured interviews conducted in the initial eld study documented a strong belief in the potential bene ts from knowledge management. The second phase was a survey of Norwegian law rms. Firm culture, rm knowledge and use of information technology were identi ed as potential predictors of information technology support for knowledge management in law rms in Norway. The extent to which law rms in Norway use information technology to support knowledge management is signi cantly in uenced by the extent rms generally use information technology.The statistical signi cances of the t-values are p < 0.01 (double asterisk) and p < 0.05 (single asterisk).

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Integrating spatial, semantic, and social structures for knowledge management

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