IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rom/rmcimn/v10y2009i4p781-790.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Relationship between Organisation Culture and Knowledge Management in SME’s

Author

Listed:
  • Cezar - Petre SIMION

    (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

  • Victor RADU

    (Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania)

Abstract

The article is about the way in which the organisation culture influences the knowledge management in the small and medium-sized enterprises. With the increase of the complexity of the environment in which the SMEs exist, they rely more and more on knowledge as assets and development source. Thus, the organisation culture becomes a mediator between personal knowledge and organisational knowledge, as well as one of the most important factors that condition the knowledge management in SMEs. Among the most important cultural barriers for the knowledge management are: the differences between the declarations and the actions of the managers, the use of the principle ‘knowledge is power’, the apathy in the dissemination of knowledge, the syndrome ‘it has not been invented here’, the language, the mechanistic perception of the organisation, the organisation ‘amnesia’, the over appreciation or under appreciation of the technologies, the attitude ‘knowledge is not an advantage and does not increase for ever’.

Suggested Citation

  • Cezar - Petre SIMION & Victor RADU, 2009. "Relationship between Organisation Culture and Knowledge Management in SME’s," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 10(4), pages 781-790, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:rom:rmcimn:v:10:y:2009:i:4:p:781-790
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rmci.ase.ro/no10vol4/Vol10_No4_Article16.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Marian NASTASE, 2009. "Importance of Trust in the Knowledge Based Leadership," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 10(3), pages 518-526, July.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ion Popa & Simona Cătălina Ștefan, 2019. "Modeling the Pathways of Knowledge Management Towards Social and Economic Outcomes of Health Organizations," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-21, March.
    2. Irinel MARIN, 2012. "Increase Employee Motivation in Romanian SME’s," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 13(5), pages 804-810, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Florica BADEA & Vasile DEAC & Florea PARVU, 2011. "European Approaches on the Concept of Lean Management," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 12(2), pages 240-249, May.
    2. Liviu ILIES & Catalin AFRASINEI - ZEVOIANU, 2009. "Particularities of Quality Management in Software Industry," REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE MANAGEMENT, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 10(4), pages 633-646, October.
    3. Liliana Crăciun & Marian Năstase & Tănase Stamule & Cristian Vizitiu, 2015. "Leadership in Romanian Small to Medium Enterprises," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(4), pages 1-16, April.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    management; knowledge; organisation; SMEs; organisation culture; cultural barriers.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Other
    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rom:rmcimn:v:10:y:2009:i:4:p:781-790. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Marian Nastase (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/mnasero.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.