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Exploring the Nature of Knowledge in Knowledge Management

Ivy Chan, Patrick Chau.


The field of KM is evolving and attracts focus of researchers and practitioners from multi-disciplinary perspectives, yet it remains elusive to many organizations. It is evident that organizations encounter unmet promises and thwarted results in their KM endeavors, from which there is a need to appreciate how KM and its related issues are perceived by practitioners. This study is motivated to elicit rich and broad-based empirical perceptions from practitioners centered the primary element of KM – knowledge, in turn to highlight unexplored but vital issues in KM discourse. Focus group (FG) study was used in this study to collect the empirical data through interactive discussion. Preliminary results from the FG with implications were presented.

Presenters

Ivy Chan  (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China)

School of Business Faculty of Business and Economics
The University of Hong Kong

PhD Candidate (Information Systems)


Patrick Chau  (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China)

School of Business Faculty of Business and Economics
The University of Hong Kong


Keywords
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge management
  • Focus group study



(Virtual Presentation, English)