Knowledge Management Beyond Borders - Globalization and Cultural Identity

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Category Call for Papers

Deadline: February 13, 2011 | Date: February 13, 2011

Venue/Country: Berlin, Germany

Updated: 2011-01-04 19:52:28 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Topic: Knowledge Management Beyond Borders - Globalization and Cultural Identity

Internationalization is already quite prevalent for the knowledge management community.

However, cross-national knowledge transfer is no easy task. Companies are already confronted with a number of critical issues when introducing knowledge management at a national level. The introduction of a cross-national knowledge transfer is a far more complex process than many believe. Global companies therefore require solutions for knowledge transfer to avoid autarkic and closed business units.

Distance is not the key problem. The language barrier, however, can cause a lot of communication problems between employees. Organizations can overcome this barrier. But for all that, there are many other problems such as the cultural background of employees that may disrupt the mutual understanding. Different continents, different customs or the greater the distance between employees, the bigger the difference?

What does all that mean for knowledge managers?

There are already several articles in which authors place cultural aspects in communication in the centre of discussion. As the main focus of this call for papers shall be on a cross-national perspective, we kindly invite knowledge management experts from outside Germany to participate in this call and contribute to this discussion. Therefore, please be aware: all submissions must be in English.

What experience have you made? Which requirements will be most relevant to us? What solutions do you know?

The Community of Knowledge welcomes academic articles from a theoretical as well as from a practical perspective. Articles should clearly specify a knowledge management problem arising from cultural differences.

Suggested Topics

* Knowledge and learning barriers caused by cultural differences

* Creativity and innovation increased by cultural differences

* What is a prerequisite for successful intercultural knowledge transfer or are there any barriers that cannot be overcome?

* Knowledge transfer within cross-national companies or cross-organisational participation in international communities of practice

* How can we overcome language and cultural barriers across all hierarchical levels? Is it really necessary to break these barriers?

* Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Europe: what kind of specification do we have to be aware for knowledge transfer?

Why submit a paper?

* set standards for future knowledge management developments/projects/implementations

* reach more than 3500 knowledge workers from economy and research

* improve the online visibility of your papers through C-o-K ranking

* get professional feedback by jury and community

Requirements for participation

* coverage: 6 pages maximum (without table of contents), approx. 12000 characters (including space)

* the articles must be submitted by Februar 13, 2011. file format: DOC/RTF, language: English

* articles are published on www.community-of-knowledge.de (April 2011) under the Creative Commons Licence.

The jury

* Dr. Bernhard von Guretzky, Germany

* Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Gronau, Universität Potsdam, Germany

* Prof. Dr. Parissa Haghirian, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

* Dr. Peter Heisig, University of Cambridge, UK

* Elke Zimprich Mazive, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst, Germany

* Dr. Atri Roy Sengupta, Asst. Professor (OB & HRM), Jyotirmoy School of Business, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

* Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge, Singapore

About the online journal of the Community of Knowledge

The online journal of the Community of Knowledge publishes articles of the knowledge management community in German and English on several main topics. The online journal is available online as an open access issue.