Transfer and Management of Knowledge

The issues of transfer and management of knowledge in modern organization are discussed in this book. Markets, day after day, are changing more and quicker than ever. All over the world, academics as well as practitioners are seeking to understand how organizations manage and/or can manage their knowledge in order to obtain more effective competitive advantages. Nowadays, move than ever before, the gaining of human resources characterized by high levels of knowledge and the ability to transfer this to their work environment is one of the main aims of organizational management. Successful organizations are those that understand the importance of all their assets, namely financial, physical, material, human and intellectual. The management of all of them is of critical relevance to the organization. However, among them, the management of knowledge and intellectual assets is a recent and challenging process. Conscious of the importance of these issues, and in order to answer the concerns expressed by many academics, as well as executives and managers, this book aims to help these professionals to understand and implement in their organizations effective knowledge management and transfer strategies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Impact of Knowledge Hoarding on Micro-Firm Learning Network Exchange
Chapter 2: Knowledge Exchange in Public–Private Partnerships:the Case of eCH
Chapter 3: Talent Development and Learning Challenges in CEE:the Case of Poland
Chapter 4: Knowledge Sharing: Social, Cultural and Structural Enabling Factors
Chapter 5: Organizational Trust and Knowledge Sharing in Portuguese Technological Enterprises
Chapter 6: Organizational Memory: a Preliminary Model Based on Insights from Neuroscience
Chapter 7: Delving Down to Learn Up: Knowledge Management and Health Reforms
Chapter 8: The Knowledge Spiral in Communities of Practice: Using Information Technology for Structuring the Collectivized Intelligence
Chapter 9: Organizational Learning, Learning Organization and Knowledge Creation and Transmission: Some Reflections