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Context Specific Knowledge Management Strategies

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This chapter is devoted to knowledge management in such different contexts as managing knowledge across cultures, countries and regions as well as in small businesses. Projection, orchestration and integration approaches in managing international companies are explained. Three cases illustrate the point showing how World Health Organisation, Asian Development Bank and World Bank deal with KM. A framework for implementing KM in SMEs is provided. Challenges and solutions to KM on country and regional level including rural development add a further perspective. The KM tool at the end of the chapter is storytelling.

“Sannin yoreba monju no chie” (a gathering of three people will result in wisdom equivalent to that of Monju Bodhisattva) – Japanese Proverb (APO 2010)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See also Bartlett and Ghoshal (1989) and the concept of the Transnational Corporation developed by them.

  2. 2.

    Description according to North and Aukamm (1996).

  3. 3.

    World Health Organisation, Knowledge Management Strategy, WHO/EIP/KMS/2005.1.

  4. 4.

    Enhancing Knowledge Management under Strategy 2020- Plan of Action 2009–2011 http://www.adb.org/documents/books/km-action-plan/enhancing-knowledge-management-under-strategy-2020.pdf

  5. 5.

    The following text is based on World Bank (2011).

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    Klaus North

  2. School of Business Management, SVKM’s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, India

    Gita Kumta

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North, K., Kumta, G. (2014). Context Specific Knowledge Management Strategies. In: Knowledge Management. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03698-4_6

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