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| Author: | Magnier-Watanabe, R. Senoo, D. |
| Title: | Organizational characteristics as prescriptive factors of knowledge management initiatives |
| Journal: | Journal of Knowledge Management
2008 : VOL. 12:1, p. 21-36 |
| Index terms: | knowledge management organizations strategy pharmaceutical industry companies Japan United Kingdom USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper aims to examine how the organization of the firm affects knowledge management (KM). A new framework is proposed, showing the prescriptive role of organizational characteristics (hereafter as: org-chars.) onto KM initiatives. Using this framework, data were generated from nine semi-structured interviews conducted in the American, British and Japanese offices of a major Japanese pharmaceutical company, using a Boolean approach and qualitative content analysis. It is found that org-chars., especially structure, membership, relationship, and strategy affect KM., that is, knowledge acquisition, storage, diffusion, and application respectively. |
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