Essay on Knowledge Management. This essay will attempt to illustrate Knowledge Management theories provided by researchers and give evidence on how organisations attempt to utilise these theories to gain a competitive advantage in order to critically appraise the following statement: "Despite the widely recognised importance of knowledge as a vital source of competitive advantage, there is little understanding of how organisations actually create and manage knowledge dynamically" (Nonaka et al 2000). Knowledge management (KM) is emerging …showed first 75 words of 4621 total…

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