While previous literature has primarily focused on how knowledge management is practiced currently, this handbook sets out alternative visions and conceptualizations of knowledge management in diverse settings and is, thus, focused on how knowledge management ideally should be practiced in various contexts.

Contents: Foreword John Van Beveren and Richard McDermott Preface Anders Örtenblad PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 1. Introduction: Towards the Contextualization of Knowledge Management as a Research Field Anders Örtenblad 2. Previous Research on Knowledge Management in Various Contexts Anders Örtenblad 3. A Normative Model of Knowledge Management Effectiveness Paul S. Myers PART II: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CONTEXT Section A: Industries and Sectors 4. Knowledge Management in Law Firms Cathrine Filstad and Petter Gottschalk 5. Knowledge Management in the Police Force Cathrine Filstad and Petter Gottschalk 6. The Australian Army’s KM Strategy: A Reflexive Organisational Approach to Knowledge Capture and Sharing Denise McDowall, Anita Rynne and Steven Talbot 7. Knowledge Management in Elderly Care Carina Abrahamson Löfström 8. Cross-cultural Knowledge Management in Collaborative Aacademic Research David Coldwell and Andrea Fried 9. Knowledge Management in Energy Sector Organizations John S. Edwards 10. Knowledge Management in Logistics Industry Organizations Eduardo Tomé and Gaby Neumann 11. Knowledge Management in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Navigating Informality and Resource Constraints Thomas Garavan, Fergal O’Brien and Eamonn Murphy 12. Knowledge Management, Context and Public Policy: Developing an Analysis Framework Deborah A. Blackman, Katie Moon, Stephen Harris and Stephen D. Sarre Section B: Religion and National Culture 13. Islamic Perspective of Knowledge Management Aini Ahmad 14. Buddhist Perspective on Knowledge Management Otto Chang 15. Knowledge Management Case Studies in Mexico David Joaquin Delgado-Hernández 16. Knowledge Management in China’s Organizations Amit Mitra and Ximing Ruan 17. Knowledge Management and Indigenous Organizations with Special Reference to Tanzania and South Africa Edda Tandi Lwoga, Christine Stilwell and Patrick Ngulube Section C: The Universality of SECI 18. Contextualizing Nonaka’s Ttheory of Knowledge in China: When Samurai Meets Bruce Lee Jacky Hong, Robin Snell and Carry Mak 19. The Nonaka-Takeuchi Model of Knowledge Conversion: A Discussion of Many Contexts of Japanese History and Culture Nigel Holden and Martin Glisby PART III: REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 20. On the Complexity of Knowledge Management given the Tacitness of Kknowledge in Organisations Thomas Garavan, Fergal O’Brien and Eamonn Murphy 21. Tensions and Extensions in Knowledge Integration and Dis-integration: Rethinking the Man-agement of Knowledge in Organisations Elena P. Antonacopoulou 22. Alternative Knowledge Management Shih-wei Hsu 23. Conclusions, A Contingency Mmodel of Knowledge Management and Recommendations for Further Research Anders Örtenblad Index