Special issue on: New ICTs for knowledge management in organisations

Call for papers

Article Type: Call for papers From: Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 18, Issue 1

Guest Editors:

Professor Pedro Soto-Acosta, Department of Management & Finance, University of Murcia, Spain (psoto@um.es)

Professor Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Business Management Department, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain (juan.cegarra@upct.es)

Aim and scope

Knowledge management (KM) has emerged as a key discipline to explain organisational learning and innovation (Quintane et al., 2011; Soto-Acosta et al., 2013). There is consensus in the literature about considering KM as a set of practices related to the use of knowledge as a crucial factor to add and generate value (Cardoso et al., 2012). KM practices are supported by ICTs (information and communication technologies) that help facilitate knowledge acquisition/creation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge utilization (Jayasingam et al., 2012). Recently, with the advent of the Web 2.0, the term KM 2.0 has been coined to summarize new trends in knowledge management. KM 2.0 can be defined as the acquisition, creation and sharing of collective intelligence through social networks and communities of knowledge (Sigala and Chalkiti, 2014).

The main role of new ICT (Web 2.0/3.0, collaborative technologies 2.0, social networking tools, wikis, internal blogging, etc.) is to help people share knowledge through common platforms and electronic storage. With appropriate training and education, new ICTs can make it easier for organisations to acquire, store or disseminate knowledge. This special issue aims at publishing relevant papers by authors presenting and discussing research focused on the role of new ICTs for KM, as well as measuring the impact and diffusion of new ICTs for KM within organisations. Empirical and conceptual papers focused on the role of new ICTs' tools within the relationships between KM, organisational innovation/performance are seemingly encouraged.

The scientific objective of the special issue is to identify challenging problems on the role of new ICTs for designing and implementing innovative products, services or processes, as well as to identify future directions of research for the role of new ICTs for KM regarding these issues. Research papers and case studies must focus on the systematic, organisational management of knowledge, and not the technical aspects and capabilities of ICT-based KM tools and techniques.

The editors of this special issue, Dr Pedro Soto-Acosta and Dr Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, would be pleased to receive articles that contribute to the creation of a solid evidence base concerning new ICTs for KM in organisations. We encourage authors with a solid KM background. Potential contributions may include, but should not be limited to, theoretical and empirical papers that consider the following:

Web 2.0 technologies for knowledge management

New ICTs for strategic knowledge management

Collaborative technologies 2.0 for knowledge management

Social networking and knowledge management

Knowledge management in the cloud

New ICTs for knowledge creation, capture and sharing

Knowledge management 2.0 for social change and innovation

Knowledge management in the Enterprise 2.0

Adoption and diffusion of new ICTs for knowledge management

Web 3.0 technologies for knowledge management

Web 2.0 communities for knowledge management

Economic impact of new ICTs for knowledge management

Sociology of new ICTs for knowledge management

Cultural aspects of new ICTs for knowledge management

Data mining and KM.

Submission guidelines

The Journal of Knowledge Management (ISSN: 1367-3270) is a peer-reviewed journal and any papers included in a Special Issue should have been reviewed by a special review committee tailored to this Special Issue. Submission deadline for the Special Issue on "New ICTs for knowledge management in organisations" is 1 June 2015 and it will appear in March-April 2016. All submitted papers are expected to fully comply with JKM standards and are subject to regular review procedures. Papers should be 5,000 to 10,000 words in length and should not have been published previously in any other journal (print or electronic) format. All papers should follow the publisher' submission policies for style and format. Authors should follow these guidelines. This information is available from the publisher's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm

Papers will undergo double-blind, developmental reviews by a special review board tailored to this Special Issue. Final acceptance of approved papers will be contingent on incorporating reviewers' feedback to the satisfaction of the Guest Editors. For all additional information, contact Professor Pedro Soto-Acosta, University of Murcia at: psoto@um.es or Professor Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Polytechnic University of Cartagena at: juan.cegarra@upct.es.

Proposed schedule

Submission deadline: 1 June 2015

Papers reviewed: 1 October 2015

Revised papers reviewed and accepted: 1 December 2015

Final versions of accepted papers delivered: 31 January 2016

Expected publication: March-April 2016

Note: This special issue is closely linked to the 7th European Conference on Intellectual Capital (April 2015, Cartagena, Spain), where the special issue editors will organise a track on "New ICTs for knowledge management in organisations". However, note that only participant authors who thoroughly reviewed relevant published KM literature when preparing their papers will be considered for an invitation to submit an extended version of their manuscript for the proposed JKM Special Issue. The participation in the conference itself or the acceptance of a paper for presentation do not give the authors any right to be selected for the JKM Special Issue on "New ICTs for knowledge management in organisations" if their papers have not been closely and carefully written for the JKM readership and KM research community. Then, please, read carefully the JKM guidelines before preparing your paper.

References

Cardoso, L., Meireles, A. and Peralta, C.F. (2012), "Knowledge management and its critical factors in social economy organizations", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 267-284.

Jayasingam, S., Ansari, M.A., Ramayah, T. and Jantan, M. (2012), "Knowledge management practices and performance: are they truly linked?", Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 255-264.

Quintane, E., Casselman, R.M., Sebastian, B.R. and Nylund P.A. (2011), "Innovation as a knowledge-based outcome", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 928-947.

Sigala, M. and Chalkiti, K. (2014), "Investigating the exploitation of Web 2.0 for knowledge management in the Greek tourism industry: an utilisation-importance analysis", Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 800-812.

Soto-Acosta, P., Colomo-Palacios, R. and Popa, S. (2013), "Web knowledge sharing and its effect on innovation: an empirical investigation in SMEs", Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Doi:10.1057/kmrp.2013.31