Abstract
This Special Issue is dedicated to current issues in strategic knowledge management in the Era of digital. Despite all the research around knowledge management the main theoretical and practical importance of this special issue is the focus on research oriented to the identification, achievement and management of critical issues related with strategic knowledge management implementation within a holistic approach to business strategy, where different components impact the long term competitive advantage for the organisations.
1. Strategic Knowledge Management in the Digital Age Framework
Strategic knowledge management offers a distinct approach to the management of people and systems and a response to the changes occurring in a turbulent environment, a means of improving organizations performance (Kianto et al., 2016; Joyce and Slocum, 2012) and achieving sustainable competitive advantage (Hajir, Obeidat, Al-dalahmeh & Masa’deh, 2015).
Knowledge management emerged in the area of management as an interdisciplinary field in the core of which articulate a large number of both formal and informal knowledge from diverse fields (Nonaka, 1994), among them: - economics, management sciences, computer systems, sociology of knowledge, biological systems, complexity theory, and others. The growing interest of these organizations to manage information in the direction of efficient use of resources was what mostly determined the creation Knowledge Management systems and today industry 4.0 organizations, is leading us to intelligent organizations and Knowledge Revolution.
