VINE: Volume 40 Issue 3/4

A study of knowledge flow in Six Sigma teams in a Chinese manufacturing enterprise

Six Sigma teams are special types of quality improvement teams which originated in the USA in the 1980s and later became popular in manufacturing enterprises worldwide. One…

Impact of cultural differences on knowledge management in global projects

This study aims to propose a knowledge management process model for global projects. The paper also seeks to generate interest among academic researchers for undertaking further…

KM in China: Western heads in Eastern hands?

The purpose of this paper is to present a case for effective knowledge transfer, management and protection between the West and the East, with an emphasis on cultural aspects.

Knowledge‐sharing intention in Vietnamese organizations

This research seeks to obtain a better understanding of the factors impacting the intent to share knowledge within the Vietnamese organizational context. While the literature…

The 2020 federal knowledge worker

This paper aims to look at the culture of federal workers and some reasons why workers may or may not want to share knowledge among their peers. To overcome the resistance to…

Business networks, “brain circulation”, and the American Chinese diaspora

Overseas Chinese business networks have had a profound effect on the economic development of mainland China and on the global economy as a whole. Such networks are based…

Knowledge management: French cooking

The purpose of this paper is to share experience on what has happened in knowledge management in France since the 1980s, for better understanding of cultural influence in holistic…

Accelerating acculturation through tacit knowledge flows: refining a grounded theory model

Intercultural knowledge flows are critical to global enterprise performance, but the impact of knowledge management theory on such intercultural flows remains limited. This paper…

Culture and KM in China

This study seeks to present observations on the impact of Chinese culture traits on knowledge management practices in Chinese corporations.

The impact of national culture traits on the usage of web 2.0 technologies

Web 2.0 technologies are becoming popular and are being used not only for social networking but also to facilitate communication and increase knowledge sharing in the work…

Enablers and constraints to knowledge creation, sharing and use: The case of policy advocacy networks

This paper aims to develop and validate a framework about the enablers and constraints to the creation, sharing and use of knowledge, by analyzing how enablers and constraints in…

Cultural impacts on knowledge sharing: empirical data from EU project collaboration

EU‐sponsored lifelong learning projects involve a variety of experts of diverse cultural, organisational, and professional backgrounds connected together in one project with time…

KM and culture

William D. Schulte Jr PhD

KM and culture