A comparative study of knowledge management research studies: making research more relevant and creative

IF 3.2 4区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Knowledge Management Research & Practice Pub Date : 2022-01-28 DOI:10.1080/14778238.2021.2020695

B. Jevnaker, J. Olaisen

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ABSTRACT To address current knowledge management (KM) research critically and constructively, this paper analyses the research papers in an essential, recurrent KM forum, IFKAD (International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics). Our approach compared all research papers (N = 491) from three annual KM conferences providing complementary insights to past journal-based reviews. We offer a new combination of philosophy-of-science frameworks, which allowed us to categorise the findings into four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, and four paradigmatic classifications. All the papers heavily emphasised the existing knowledge and accepted methodology. Their state of the art revealed that less than ten percent of the papers represented new scientific contributions at all. Less than three percent contributed to a better understanding of the essential sustainability areas or the climate crisis. Our novel cross-paradigmatic framing supports our concluding pluralistic framework, emphasising practice-near, curiosity, and problem-driven studies for improving future KM research. A relevant and engaged research.

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知识管理研究的比较研究:提高研究的相关性和创新性

摘要为了批判性和建设性地解决当前知识管理研究的问题，本文分析了一个重要的、经常性的知识管理论坛IFKAD（国际知识资产动态论坛）上的研究论文。我们的方法比较了三次KM年度会议的所有研究论文（N=491），为过去基于期刊的综述提供了补充见解。我们提供了一种新的科学哲学框架组合，使我们能够将研究结果分为四种知识表示、两种概念类型和四种范式分类。所有的论文都强调了现有的知识和公认的方法。他们的最新研究表明，只有不到10%的论文代表了新的科学贡献。不到3%的人有助于更好地了解重要的可持续性领域或气候危机。我们新颖的跨范式框架支持了我们得出的多元框架，强调实践、好奇心和问题驱动的研究，以改进未来的知识管理研究。一项相关且投入的研究。

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期刊介绍： Knowledge management is a term that has worked its way into the mainstream of both academic and business arenas since it was first coined in the 1980s. Interest has increased rapidly during the last decade and shows no signs of abating. The current state of the knowledge management field is that it encompasses four overlapping areas: •Managing knowledge (creating/acquiring, sharing, retaining, storing, using, updating, retiring) •Organisational learning •Intellectual capital •Knowledge economics Within (and across) these, knowledge management has to address issues relating to technology, people, culture and systems.