From Knowledge Management to Ecosystems of Innovation: A Scoping Review

The ways in which organizations construct, process and justify knowledge differ, with persisting effects upon their relative performance. The field of knowledge management has expanded into different, although intertwined, strands of research, demonstrating the power of knowledge in the success of organizational performance. However, a metatheory consolidating these approaches, as well as explaining and allowing for predictions of organizational performance with respect to the modes of dealing with knowledge within an organization, still seems to be lacking. This scoping review investigates the regularities by which ecosystems of innovation construct, process and justify their knowledge. The aim is to screen the landscape of research in support of the value of the idea that combining knowledge management with research into commons can lead to the construction of a meta-theory, allowing effective approaches to the original task of knowledge management, i.e. supporting the success of organizational performance in the long term.