Horwitch & Armacost | 2002 | The creation, extraction, transformation and storage of the correct knowledge and information in order to design better policy, modify action and deliver results |
Skyrme | 2003 | The explicit and systematic management of vital knowledge and its associated processes of creating, gathering, organizing, diffusion, use and exploitation |
April & Izadi | 2004 | The philosophy of knowledge management is made up of both the collect function (data and information dimensions) and the connect function (knowledge and wisdom function) |
Pearce-Moses | 2005 | The administration and oversight of an organization’s intellectual capital by managing information and its use in order to maximize its value |
Wang | 2007 | Knowledge transfers, between explicit and tacit, between individual and collective |
Serrat | 2009 | Explicit and systematic management of processes enabling vital individual and collective knowledge resources to be identified, created, stored, shared, and used for benefit. Its practical expression is the fusion of information management and organizational learning |
Ramsin & Paige | 2010 | A framework for applying KM development practices and, like all methodologies, consists of two parts: process and modeling language |
Becerra-Fernandez & Sabherwal | 2010 | Performing the activities involved in discovering, capturing, sharing, and applying knowledge so as to enhance, in a cost effective fashion, the impact of knowledge on the unit’s goal achievement |
Pauleen & Gorman | 2011 | The application of knowledge management through individual strategies, based on experience and skills, to create maximum value for individuals |
Groff & Jones | 2012 | A set of organizational activities to achieving organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge |
Clobridge | 2013 | The process of systematically capturing, describing, organizing, and sharing knowledge – making it useful, usable, adaptable, and re-useable |
Rouse | 2013 | An enterprise consciously and comprehensively gathers, organizes, shares, and analyzes its knowledge in terms of resources, documents, and people skills |
Chang & Lin | 2015 | A process of capturing, storing, sharing and using knowledge |
Navimipour & Charband | 2016 | The process of capturing, sharing, developing, and using the knowledge efficiently |
Liu, Wang et al. | 2017 | Not only managing tangible content from the literature but also extracting information from the raw data available on organization and systematization |