[Sigkm-l] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - (Special Issue) Managing Knowledge Within and Across Geographic Borders: The Role of Culture

[awazu at engagedenterprise.com]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Special Issue 
Managing Knowledge Within and Across Geographic Borders: The Role of Culture
Knowledge and Process Management

A Special Issue of Knowledge and Process Management (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/6242) on Managing Knowledge Within and Across Geographic Borders: The Role of Culture has been approved. 

Knowledge management as a competitive capability continues to receive resounding interest from both practitioner and academic circles. The current literature in knowledge management can be described as immature, yet budding. One question that remains unanswered is the role of culture in knowledge management efforts. Culture, at the nationalistic, organizational, or even unit (also known as team or workgroup) and individualistic (also known as personality) level plays a significant role as an enhancer or suppressor of knowledge management programs.

The goal of this special issue is to encourage contributions from both scholars and practitioners, and ideally papers stemming from collaborative engagements between the scholarly and practitioner community, on the role of culture in global knowledge management agendas. We seek papers that go beyond the simple taxonomical approach to culture at the national level. For instance, we invite papers that question the relevance of national culture in an increasing global and borderless (or bordered) world. We would welcome papers that examine the differences or similarities across cultural measures (at any level of analysis) and their level of significance in promoting or hampering knowledge creation and transfer efforts. Papers that study cultural issues in facilitating knowledge transfer among global teams are definitely of interest. In addition, papers that study cultural difference within a nation’s borders and their impacts on moving knowledge within the country’s borders are also of interest (e.g. the differences between cultures in Boston, MA and that of San Jose, CA or Omaha, NE).

We welcome both conceptual and empirical papers. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

•	Culture as an enabler of knowledge management
•	Re-definition of the role of culture in knowledge management research
•	Culture as an enhancer (or suppressor) of knowledge transfer between countries.
•	Culture as an enhancer (or suppressor) of knowledge transfer within regions in a country
•	Cultural issues in global knowledge-intensive teams
•	Cultural issues in global project management
•	Organizational cultural issues in collaborative inter-organizational alliances
•	Cultural issues in managing knowledge in the networked economy
•	Case studies of cross-cultural management failures in knowledge-intensive organizations
•	Managing Culture in 2015 and beyond – the futuristic perspective

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission for Guidance: July 15, 2006
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2006
Reviews sent back to authors:  November 1, 2006
Revised Submissions: December 15, 2006
Final Acceptance: December 31, 2006
Tentative Publication Schedule: Issue 14, Volume 2 (2007)

Submission Instructions
Please send your submissions and queries to Yukika Awazu at yukika.awazu at gmail.com with the subject line – “KPM Special Issue”.

Yukika Awazu
Director
Institute for Engaged Business Research
The Engaged Enterprise
E-mail: awazu at engagedenterprise.com
Web: www.engagedenterprise.com