Possibilities and Missing Links in Management Research: What We Do Not Know That We Know

Birgit Helene Jevnaker () and Johan Olaisen ()
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Birgit Helene Jevnaker: BI Norwegian Business School
Johan Olaisen: BI Norwegian Business School

Chapter Chapter 3 in Reimagining Sustainable Organization, 2022, pp 55-71 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to address possibilities and missing links by looking into some contemporary knowledge management research. For this aim we analyse and compare all the papers in the proceedings of European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) in Barcelona (2017), Padua (2018), Lisbon (2019), and the digital conference in 2020. The approach uses a philosophy of science framework and compares this to the content of the research papers. We will discuss the findings in four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, and four paradigmatic classifications to open up for creative future explorations in knowledge management research. The results indicate a conference based upon as-is knowledge and less upon new and often unsolvable problems. There are however more critical and green papers in the 2020 conference opening up for new perspectives in the choice of methodology, problems, and knowledge.

Keywords: Paradigms; Concepts; Perspectives; Knowledge creation; Knowledge accumulation; Research domain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96210-4_3

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