TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing knowledge work in Asia Pacific contexts
T2 - case studies of Hong Kong SMEs
AU - Law, Kuok Kei
AU - Chan, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/8/8
Y1 - 2017/8/8
N2 - This study explores how knowledge creation and sharing practices are fostered in a sample of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong. Our analysis indicates that three types of managerial interventions–initiating intervention, reinforcing intervention and aligning intervention–are particularly useful to promote knowledge management activities among employees. Such findings provide insights into researchers and managers on the important role of managerial interventions in knowledge management (KM) as well as the idiosyncrasies of KM in SMEs in Chinese societies.
AB - This study explores how knowledge creation and sharing practices are fostered in a sample of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong. Our analysis indicates that three types of managerial interventions–initiating intervention, reinforcing intervention and aligning intervention–are particularly useful to promote knowledge management activities among employees. Such findings provide insights into researchers and managers on the important role of managerial interventions in knowledge management (KM) as well as the idiosyncrasies of KM in SMEs in Chinese societies.
KW - Case study
KW - Hong Kong
KW - knowledge management
KW - managerial intervention
KW - motivation
KW - small- and medium-sized enterprises
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021817754&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13602381.2017.1346207
DO - 10.1080/13602381.2017.1346207
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021817754
SN - 1360-2381
VL - 23
SP - 475
EP - 492
JO - Asia Pacific Business Review
JF - Asia Pacific Business Review
IS - 4
ER -