Knowledge Management and the Positive Impact of a Collectivist Culture

Gloria Moss, Krzysztof Kubacki, Marion Hersh and Rod Gunn

Chapter 4 in Profiting from Diversity, 2010, pp 59-74 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How does cultural diversity affect the development of knowledge? This chapter explores an under-researched issue namely the relationship between individualism and collectivism and knowledge creation and does this through a study of the research process in universities in a collectivist (Slovenia) and individualistic country (Australia). The Higher Education (HE) sector provides a suitable context in which to study this question since it is home to a research community devoted to knowledge creation (KC) and knowledge management (KM), or intellectual capital management (ICM) as it is sometimes known. However, although this chapter focuses on the processes in the HE sector, the conclusions that are reached are relevant to other contexts such as commercial organisations where information and knowledge management are important.

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Human Resource Management; Tacit Knowledge; Explicit Knowledge; Knowledge Creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230273887_4

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