Knowledge Management in Local Government: A Case Study on the Relationship between Organizational Elements and KM Processes
Keywords:
knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, organizational elements.Abstract
Knowledge Management due to its increasing importance has become the
center of attraction of almost all the industries throughout the world.
Knowledge Management plays a key role in the decision making which is
the foundation of activities of an organization. The purpose of this article
was to find out the relationship between (a) knowledge creation and
knowledge transfer and (b) the relationship between organizational
elements and knowledge management processes i.e. knowledge creation
and knowledge transfer
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