Review: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations and Research Issues

By Maryam Alavi, Dorothy Elliott Leidner. MIS Q., 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Digitisation, ‘Big Data’ and the transformation of accounting information (2014, neutral): “In contrast, the de facto school equates tacit knowledge with uncodiﬁed knowledge and opposes it to codiﬁed knowledge (Teece 1981, Boisot 1995, Alavi and Leidner 2001).”
Structured knowledge processes and firm performance: The role of organizational agility (2016, background): “Although the knowledge management literature indicates that knowledge application affects directly organizational outcomes (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Bierly, Damanpour, & Santoro, 2009), the application of knowledge can also be a major driver for relearning and therefore a major vehicle for creating…”
The relationship between innovation, knowledge, and performance in family and non-family firms: an analysis of SMEs (2013, background): “Alavi and Leidner (2001) described this process as creating, storing/retrieving, transferring, and applying knowledge.”
Knowledge management-enabled health care management systems: capabilities, infrastructure, and decision-support (2003, background): “…identifying, capturing, structuring, sharing and applying an individual's or an organization's knowledge to extract competitive advantage and create sources of sustainable growth (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Holsapple & Joshi, 2002; Liebowitz, 2000; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995).”
Motivating Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge Management Systems (2014, methodology): “For our purposes, we define knowledge as information processed by individuals, including ideas, facts, expertise, and judgments relevant for individual, team, and organizational performance (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Bartol & Srivastava, 2002).”
Knowledge management in technology-focused firms in emerging economies: Caveats on capabilities, networks, and real options (2007, background): “Knowledge management, and the role it plays in technology-focused businesses, has gained increased attention in recent years ( Alavi & Leidner, 2001 ).”
Interpreting the impact of knowledge management processes on organizational performance in Chinese higher education: mediating role of knowledge worker productivity (2020, background): “Thus, OP can only be improved with an effective application of already created, stored, and transferred knowledge (Alavi and Leidner 2001).”
Shaping Agility through Digital Options: Reconceptualizing the Role of Information Technology in Contemporary Firms (2003, background): “Information technologies can strengthen organizational processes and knowledge systems (Alavi and Leidner 2001; Davenport 1993; Davenport and Prusak 1998).”
A Phase Model of Intergenerational Learning in Organizations (2017, background): “In line with this finding, knowledgemanagement anddiversity researchers have argued that a common (expert) knowledge base needs to be established before groups can engage in effective interactions (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Kelly et al., 2001; van Knippenberg, De Dreu, & Homan, 2004).”
The co-creative practice of forming a value proposition (2012, methodology): “…script – that mediate resource-integrating actors’ exchange of knowledge, and the activities of this exchange have been identified and labelled using literature on knowledge creation and management (Alavi & Leidner, 2001; Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995) as a point of departure.”
Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Management: an Integrative Role for Learning?* (2008, background): “…tools and systems, whereby technical knowledge management infrastructures are presented as a pipeline to knowledge codiﬁcation and organization (Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Davenport and Prusak, 1998; Gold, Malhotra and Segars, 2001) and to extensive knowledge transfer (Davenport and Prusak,…”
Knowledge processes, knowledge-intensity and innovation: A moderated mediation analysis (2011, methodology): “There are a number of measures of knowledge processes that are reported in the literature (e.g. Darroch, 2003; Zack et al., 2009; Alavi and Leidner, 2001; Kulkarni and St Louis, 2003; Marqués and Simón, 2006; Mitchell and Boyle, 2010).”