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A key element of knowledge management is building and nurturing a knowledge sharing culture. A number of organizations are developing knowledge sharing proficiencies as part of their recognition and reward systems. Knowledge sharing effectiveness is a critical aspect of knowledge management, and this chapter takes a look at this area in terms of developing and applying a knowledge sharing effectiveness inventory in order to rate how well an organization is performing knowledge sharing activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge is becoming a primary driver of social and economic well-being as economies begin to depend less on the traditional resources of land, labor and capital (Drucker, 1993). Thus, knowledge creation is an important activity for organizations that strive to achieve greater effectiveness and responsiveness in this turbulent global environment. Knowledge creation is important not only for organizational competitiveness and survival, but can have far-reaching societal, national, and global consequences. This chapter discusses the knowledge creation process and its relationship with other knowledge activities, as well as its role in knowledge management. It examines different types of knowledge and the processes that encourage knowledge creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article develops a model of organizational knowledge acquisition in terms of modern psychological, sociological, economic and management theories by deconstructing the terms involved: an organization as a collective agent having goals and capabilities to achieve them; knowledge as the hidden state variables imputed to an agent as the basis of its capabilities; and acquisition as the reproduction of dispositions. This form of model enables one to relate the knowledge processes involved to existing models of organizational processes, and to understand such phenomena as knowledge economics and knowledge management. The breadth of the notion of organization encompasses markets, firms and societies; the operational definition of knowledge clarifies its role and the utility of the notion; and the focus on reproduction of dispositions in knowledge acquisition enables the management of knowledge acquisition to be analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]