Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing: Business Strategies and an Emerging Theoretical Field

This book contains a collection of chapters that provide new insights into traditional paradigms, approaches, and methods, as well as more recent innovative studies in knowledge management. It investigates the historical root of such interaction and how it evolved over time. The book examines the ability of an organization to recognize the value of new external information and knowledge, assimilate and apply them, which plays a critical role in determining innovative output. It introduces and highlights the importance of knowledge-sharing performance. In particular, it analyzes the knowledge-sharing process and its impact on the innovation capability and innovation performance of the firms. The book is an interesting read for both researchers and practitioners in this field.

Marco Valeri is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics at Niccolò Cusano University, Rome (Italy). He is a Lecture in Applied Organizational Behaviour, Xenophon College, London (UK). He is Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Social Sciences and Leisure Management, School of Hospitality, Tourism and Events, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500 (Malaysia). He is Associate Researcher in Strategy, Magellan Research Center, School of Management, Iaelyon Business School, Jean Monet University, Lyon (France). He is Honorary Associate Professor, University of Pannonia (Hungary). He’s teaching and consultancy fields include strategic management, leadership development, cross-cultural management, international hospitality management. His research areas include strategy implementation, knowledge management, family business, crisis management, information technology, network analysis. He chaired/co-chaired and served on numerous PhD dissertation and master thesis committees. He has a long and extensive international academic experience and has taken visiting positions in several universities. He is member of several Editorial Boards of international journals, reviewer and editor of several handbooks on entrepreneurship, organization science, tourism and hospitality management (Springer and Emerald).