Explaining the Diffusion of Knowledge Management: The Role of Fashion
通过文献综述发现知识管理与学习型组织话语间缺乏相互学习，且关注点差异大，同时兴趣分布呈正态曲线，提出知识管理的扩散可用管理时尚模型解释，但信息系统和人力资源社区对知识管理概念的专业化应用表明该模型仅提供部分解释。
This paper provides evidence on the emergence and diffusion of the discourse of knowledge management. A literature review of the knowledge management and learning organization literatures demonstrates the lack of learning from one discourse to another and major differences in the concerns and issues that they address. At the same time, evidence on the level of interest in each discourse shows a tendency towards a normal curve distribution. Analytically, these findings suggest that the widespread diffusion of knowledge management might be explained in terms of the management fashion model. However, further consideration of the professionally‐differentiated appropriation of knowledge management concepts by the information systems and human resource communities suggests that the fashion model provides only a partial explanation for the observed diffusion of knowledge management.