Knowledge Management Research

1 Knowledge and Knowledge Management

Knowledge is the most inevitable fundamental element to have the competitive advantage for organizations. It is very important that all the organizations utilize and manage the knowledge efficiently and effectively within the organization. In the MNC Companies the workforce is dispersed across the world and hence there are various opportunities for gaining variety of knowledge, however at the same time there is challenge of dissemination of organizational knowledge across the inter firm boundaries. Organizations including MNC have in recent focused on the using the IT driven Knowledge Management Strategies as the knowledge repositories. However, it has been found that IT driven KMS also has its constraints which need to be taken into consideration. Hence, it becomes important that MNC organizations also lay proper attention of the social perspective and social strategies for the sharing of the knowledge across the inter-firm boundaries in MNC. Proper utilization of social perspective and social channels for dissemination of the knowledge can play a key role in framing effective KMS strategies for the MNC organization.

This study will hence aim at finding the limitations of the IT driven KM strategies for the MNC organizations and at the same time reap the benefits by implementing and following the social perspective of KMS. The study is a report to the MD of the MNC organization for implementation of better KMS strategies for the effective knowledge flow and knowledge sharing within the organization by incorporating social perspective and strategies along with the IT driven KMS. The researcher has done secondary research to understand the underlying KMS for MNC organizations so that efficient analysis for the research problem background can be done. The secondary research for the research problem aided the researcher to form conclusive results and recommendations for KMS in MNC organizations

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