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Infusing Ethical Considerations in Knowledge Management Scholarship: Toward a Research Agenda

The authors of this paper believe that scholarly work on knowledge management (KM) has largely overlooked ethical considerations. As such, this paper argues for the infusion of ethical considerations into knowledge management (KM) research. Using the lens of the classical ethical theories in philosophy, this paper revisits key areas of KM—knowledge creation, storage and access, transfer, and application—and generates relevant research questions in each of these areas. The paper highlights the importance of examining ethical issues related to KM, and offers an illustrative set of ethically-informed research themes and questions that can potentially be investigated by future studies.

Knowledge Management and Ethics from the Business Point of View

2013

The most common type of management nowadays is the system of knowledge management, which thanks to its structure and activity, enables not only individuals but also groups to share and apply knowledge collectively and systematically to achieve business goals. Attention is also aimed at ethical attitude and ethical behaviour. Acknowledging the roles of employees can be achieved through appropriate business culture. Business morals and ethics reflect business values; the values define the extent of ethics, or eventually also unethical behaviour, and so define the dominant business culture. (McClaren, 2000, Schwab, 1996) European countries profess traditional values, but are also capable of accepting new values of other cultures to their value system. Adopting such cultures is accompanied by changes in business value system, while it is also necessary to discover and accept ethics of other countries. (Barta – Tóth, 2000) In the times of globalization it is important to keep national cu...

Knowledge Management Ethics: located within a governance framework

This paper addresses a gap in existing Knowledge Management Governance frameworks in support of the agile enterprise. The oversight of risk management for KM, and the development of organizational policy for KM are scrutinized in this paper. Contemporary KM literature reveals the growing unease over unethical practices that need to be addressed. In the context of corporate governance, that acknowledges the role of ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility we survey the empirical literature on KM and present a strong case for the inclusion of a broad range of ethical issues in organizational Knowledge Management policies developed through Governance.

Knowledge Management - The Ethics of the Agora or the Mechanisms of the Market?

2006

Knowledge management (KM) first appeared as a distinct phrase in the context of IS in the mid-1990s, since when it has grown to become the latest item in the IS pantheon. The term itself ought to promote more uneasiness than it appears to do so within the IS academy, and this paper outlines the reasons why the term should be