Abstract:Knowledge management exists to make the most of knowledge in an organisation. It is concerned with identifying and leveraging the collective knowledge to provide an organisation with a competitive advantage (Alavi and Leidn 2001). The use of knowledge is the point, not the knowledge or knowledge management per se. This implies that knowledge can be used to improve the performance of an organisation, and so when we talk about knowledge management there is an implicit emphasis on organisational change in general… Show more
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