Publisher： Common Ground Publishing
E-ISSN： 1447-9575|8|8|35-44
ISSN： 1447-9524
Source： The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review, Vol.8, Iss.8, 2008-01, pp. : 35-44
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Abstract
While the link between culture and knowledge management (KM) has received increasing research attention in the recent literature, the relationships between different concepts of culture and KM are rarely explored further. Based on a review of the growing body of research exploring national culture influences on knowledge sharing (KS), this paper identifies the predominance of a value-based, coherence-oriented approach to cultural and cross-cultural analysis in KM. Indicating a range of related problems and shortcomings, the paper continues to explore an alternative, cohesion-oriented approach to culture emerging from the realm of cultural studies and intercultural communication literature (e.g. Hansen 2003; Rathje 2007). This approach sees culture as a form of glue, which connects, rather than unifies people (Rathje, 2007). The paper argues that the cohesion-oriented perspective is particularly apt to explore some of the key challenges in cross-cultural KM such as the link between culture and practice, culture and power, and cultural synergies in fluid social networks.
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