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Knowledge Management Trends in the Digital Economy Age

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2017)

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The main objective of this paper is to understand and describe how knowledge management practices are organized in Russian firms of different industries and the extent to which these practices have been adopted to support the business strategy in the digital economy age. Based on hierarchical cluster analysis of 104 Russian companies, this study highlights the specific combinations of KM practices and accents made by Russian managers in this area.

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Acknowledgement

This research was partially conducted with financial support from Russian Science Foundation grant (project No. 15-18-30048) to Tatiana Gavrilova in the part of problem definition and experiments planning.

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    Tatiana Gavrilova, Artem Alsufyev & Liudmila Kokoulina

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Gavrilova, T., Alsufyev, A., Kokoulina, L. (2017). Knowledge Management Trends in the Digital Economy Age. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69784-0_38

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