Structure of knowledge management

• Journal: Global Academic Society Journal: Social Science Insight, Vol. 1, No. 2, year 2008, pp. 4-20.
• Author(s): Ieva Jauniškytė, Eglė Kvaraciejutė
• Category: Social Science Insight I
• Keywords: knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge management structure, measurement problems of knowledge management, knowledge management processes

Abstract

Knowledge becomes important element in today's business world. Organizations aiming to compete in knowledge society must learn to manage the knowledge they possess. This paper focuses on theoretical analysis of structure of knowledge management (KM). The aim of the paper is to analyse structure of knowledge management.
The paper discusses concept of knowledge management referring to findings of number of scholars. Further, the paper analyses advantages and limitations of KM. Analysis of structure of KM is performed by comparing KM concepts, offered by Bhojaraju (2005), European KM Forum (2002), Cong and Pandya (2003), Kucza (2001), Probst et al. (2006). Special attention in this article is paid to systematisation of KM processes as well as identification of major KM measurement problems.