...in terms of". . . the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change....and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings."3 Significantly, a comprehensive, universally accepted definition of knowledge management does...

...the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organisational processes that seek synergistic combination of data...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings." (Malhotra, 1997). Knowledge does not come from processes or activities; it comes from people...

...organizational activity [11]. Knowledge management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings. Sarvary [13] is of the opinion that knowledge management is a business process through which...

...the organizational success behind available knowledge potential. Essentially, knowledge management embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings. Some corporate centric themes include: market competition; non-hierarchical organisations;...

...increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially it embodies organizational process that seeks synergistic combination of data and information processing...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings." This definition not only recognizes the discontinuous environment but also the importance...

...published, the one which conveys the concept best in the context of this chapter isbyMalhotra(1999): combination of data and information processing capacity...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings." This definition not only recognizes the discontinuous environment but also the importance...

...management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaption, survival and competence in the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change....Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek the synergistic combination of data and informationprocessing capacity of information technologies,...

...one of the experts is "Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adoption, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings"(Malhotra, 1 999). Another definition is "In practice, Knowledge Management often encompasses...

...the face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change. Essentially, it embodies organisational processes that seek synergistic combination of data...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings." (Malhotra, 1997). Knowledge does not come from processes or activities; it comes from people...

...organisation" while Malhotra ( 1 997) maintains that knowledge management "embodies organisational processes that seek synergistic combination of data...and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings" Even from this small sample of definitions, the epistemological and ontological basis ofKIM...