Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2018
Abstract
This study informs knowledge management (KM) research assessing the philosophical assumptions and paradigms that have formed around the discipline. Reviewing positivism, critical realism, interpretivism or constructivism, and pragmatism the researcher suggests to draw on constructivism to inform KM theory. Moreover it is suggested that a mixed methods approach is the most suitable to engage in research on KM so that a flexibility can be maintained that will allow to detect what KM is and how knowledge can be managed.
Comments
This is the author's manuscript of a work originally published in American Journal of Management, available at https://doi.org/10.33423/ajm.v18i3.74.