From: Yukika Awazu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:20:49 -0800 (PST)
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Special Issue
Managing Knowledge Within and Across Geographic Borders: The Role of
Culture
Knowledge and Process Management
A Special Issue of Knowledge and Process Management
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/6242) on Managing
Knowledge Within and Across Geographic Borders: The Role of Culture has
been approved.
Knowledge management as a competitive capability continues to receive
resounding interest from both practitioner and academic circles. The
current literature in knowledge management can be described as immature,
yet budding. One question that remains unanswered is the role of culture
in knowledge management efforts. Culture, at the nationalistic,
organizational, or even unit (also known as team or workgroup) and
individualistic (also known as personality) level plays a significant
role as an enhancer or suppressor of knowledge management programs.
The goal of this special issue is to encourage contributions from both
scholars and practitioners, and ideally papers stemming from
collaborative engagements between the scholarly and practitioner
community, on the role of culture in global knowledge management
agendas. We seek papers that go beyond the simple taxonomical approach
to culture at the national level. For instance, we invite papers that
question the relevance of national culture in an increasing global and
borderless (or bordered) world. We would welcome papers that examine the
differences or similarities across cultural m easures (at any level of
analysis) and their level of significance in promoting or hampering
knowledge creation and transfer efforts. Papers that study cultural
issues in facilitating knowledge transfer among global teams are
definitely of interest. In addition, papers that study cultural
difference within a nation's borders and their impacts on moving
knowledge within the country's borders are also of interest (e.g. the
differences between cultures in Boston, MA and that of San Jose, CA or
Omaha, NE).
We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers. Specific topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Culture as an enabler of knowledge management
- Re-definition of the role of culture in knowledge management research
- Culture as an enhancer (or suppressor) of knowledge transfer between
countries.
- Culture as an enhancer (or suppressor) of knowledge transfer within
regions in a country
- Cultural issues in global knowledge-intensive teams
- Cultural issues in global project management
- Organizational cultural issues in collaborative inter-organizational
alliances
- Cultural issues in managing knowledge in the networked economy
- Case studies of cross-cultural management failures in
knowledge-intensive organizations
- Managing Culture in 2015 and beyond: the futuristic perspective
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission for Guidance: July 15, 2006
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2006
Reviews sent back to authors: November 1, 2006
Revised Submissions: December 15, 2006
Final Acceptance: December 31, 2006
Tentative Pub lication Schedule: Issue 14, Volume 2 (2007)
Submission Instructions
Please send your submissions and queries to Yukika Awazu at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the subject
line "KPM Special Issue".
Yukika Awazu
Director
Institute for Engaged Business Research
The Engaged Enterprise
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.engagedenterprise.com
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