Understanding relationship between security culture and knowledge management

Despite the widely recognized importance of information security as a vital asset in an organization, there has been lack of understanding of how organizations actually cultivate security culture amongst the employees in a particular environment. Based on previous researches, the vast majority of information security incidents are caused by human factor, and not by flawed technology. Knowledge has been highlighted as one important parameter of the human factor in information security. Previous literature has suggested the Knowledge Management (KM) approach as one of the approaches to implement information security management. However, the knowledge dimension of information security management in the healthcare industry has been neglected. The goal of this paper is to investigate the relationship between security culture and KM. Thus, a conceptual model has been proposed to describe the relationship. The findings suggest that security culture may have a positive relationship with knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge use through security behaviour. The proposed conceptual model will be further evaluated with selected healthcare organizations in Malaysia

Knowledge and enterprises in developing countries: evidences from Chile

ABSTRACT: Knowledge management is a fundamental tool in order to obtain competitive advantages in organizations. In this paper, we present an interesting study about how enterprises in a developing country like Chile manage their knowledge by using variables linked with three interesting concepts related to knowledge: innovation, learning, and knowledge sharing. From this information, six clusters of enterprises and two special cases with different behaviors in knowledge management and different results are identified. From this information, some conclusions are extracted: (1) clusters 4 and 5 are the best in knowledge management (best results) and, thus, other enterprises should replicate their behaviors; (2) the Government of Chile should promote more knowledge management in order to improve the country’s performance; (3) chemical industry is highlighted like one of the most important one related to knowledge; and finally, (4) enterprises with a high investment in knowledge are also enterprises with high results. These results are very interesting in order to understand the knowledge activity in a developing country like Chile.The authors thank to Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (project ECO2010-15455) for partial support of this work

Passion, Expert Knowledge, and Community Entrepreneurship

1noreservedThis chapter deals with non-trivial relationship between passion, expert knowledge and entrepreneurship. The relationships is non-trivial as passion likely leads to domain expertise which increases the likelihood of subjectivist identification of opportunities while decreasing the entrepreneurial intent. The emergence of entrepreneurship in the context of domain passion is thus the outcome of personality and community.mixedLechner CLechner,