OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Knowledge Management Research & Practice is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of knowledge creation practices and organisational performance in sports organisations: a comparative study	236
Knowledge management in the agriculture sector: a systematic literature review	47
Damaging effects of cold-shoulder at work: a sequential explanatory mixed method approach	41
The role of knowledge management practices in the absorptive capacity: a research of soybean farms	35
Knowledge generation from Big Data for new product development: a structured literature review	33
Knowledge sharing in global governance: a path in public goods delivery	29
Antecedents of knowledge hiding: the indirect roles of positive affect and perceived organizational support	28
Knowledge and its transfer – key prerequisite for long-term competitive advantage and sustainable business	24
Exploration and exploitation of imported technology: their effects on indigenous innovation	23
Knowledge management processes and innovation phases: insights from metalworking SMEs	23
The role of institutional and individual factors in knowledge hiding and team creativity	22
Inclusive leadership, service innovation, and knowledge sharing: the roles of intrinsic motivation and sleep quality	20
Does the mayor’s profile influence intellectual capital disclosure? Empirical evidence from Italian local governments	19
Transforming knowledge-sharing intentions into behaviour: the role of ambidextrous knowledge-sharing activities on mobile platforms	18
“The beginning was traumatising” – Industry 4.0: a lifesaver or disruptor? A knowledge-based viewpoint	18
Knowledge transfer as a dynamic capability: a meta-analysis of its impact on organizational outcomes in international contexts	17
Relevance and importance of KM dynamics – a primer for future research directions	17
Does learning culture enhance organizational performance? A serial mediator with knowledge management and organizational intelligence	17
Examining the role of organisational justice in enhancing tacit knowledge sharing and its influential mechanism	17
How to effectively communicate university patents: a framework based on signalling theory	16
The effect of knowledge management on sustainable performance: evidence from the Spanish wine industry	16
Effects of servant leadership, affective commitment, and trust on knowledge sharing tendency in the financial industry	16
Person-organisation fit, employee voice, and knowledge productivity: the moderating role of perceived voice opportunity	16
The effects of absorptive capacity on competitive intelligence in a turbulent market	15
Being a victim: how knowledge hiding affects student creativity and performance in higher education	15

Business process digitisation and firm innovation performance: The role of knowledge search and digital culture	15
Negative workplace gossip and knowledge hiding: roles of duty orientation and psychological entitlement	15
Improving innovation performance through learning capability and adaptive capability: The moderating role of big data analytics	14
Guest editorial “Knowledge management systems in the digital age”	13
Impact of team-composition and project-characteristics on Individual-knowledge growth and performance of onsite-offshore distributed software teams	13
Challenges and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of knowledge management in organizations: KM professionals’ perceptions	13
Working remotely and feeling lonely? – Knowledge hiding and the role of work characteristics	11
Knowledge management effects and performance in health care: a systematic literature review	11
Will institutional quality moderate the effects of national intellectual capital on economic growth?	11
Relationships between knowledge management and ecodesign: a theoretical analysis	11
Research on the process of knowledge value co-creation between manufacturing enterprises and internet enterprises	11
Key development areas for the growing and maturing knowledge management research field: creativity, novelty, relevance and impact	11
Why do employees (not) share innovative knowledge, and how does this sharing influence career interest?	10
Opportunity recognition and exploitation in resource-scarce contexts: the role of relational capital and bricolage in African social enterprise	10
Entrepreneurial leadership affecting knowledge hiding behaviour: the roles of employee envy and peer justice	10
Participative leadership and team creativity: the role of team intellectual capital and colleague social support	10
Online meeting tools, tacit knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial behaviours among knowledge workers during COVID-19	9
Delivering evidence-based management services: rising to the challenge using design science	9
Factors overshadowing employees’ knowledge-hiding behavior and fostering knowledge-sharing behavior: an empirical enquiry	9
Correction	8
Knowledge loss risk management in a Brazilian public company: the case of AMAZUL	8
Interactive mechanisms between formal and informal knowledge governance mechanisms in predicting knowledge processes in China	8
Enterprise systems, emerging technologies, and the data-driven knowledge organisation	8
The augmentation of Knowledge Management through Industry 4.0: case of Aviation sector of emerging economy	8
From knowledge-oriented leadership to sustainable organisational performance: teachers’ assessment from higher education	8
Mandated media innovation impacts on knowledge dissemination in workplace training	8
Management strategies to mitigate knowledge hiding behaviours: symmetric and asymmetric analyses	7
The ISO 30401 Knowledge Management Systems: a new frame for managing knowledge. Conceptualisation and practice	7
Exploring the Nexus of green knowledge and corporate sustainable performance in Pakistan and China	7
University-industry knowledge collaborations in emerging countries: the outcomes and effectiveness in Vietnam	7
Professionalization and knowledge management in enterprise systems adoption in Mexican manufacturing firms	7
Knowledge sharing in mobile messaging groups: role of governance mechanism, felt responsibility and regulatory focus	7
Social network embeddedness, knowledge transfer and overseas market performance in Taiwanese SMEs: the moderating effect of absorptive capacity	7
Analysing masculine culture’s moderating role on social capital and knowledge sharing in UAE female students	7
Rivalling firms’ absorptive capacity congruence in coopetition relationships: the reciprocal effects on firms’ innovation performance	7
A moderated mediation approach to deciphering the effects of leader knowledge hiding behaviour in industry 4.0	6
Managing knowledge of dynamic capability for business excellence: a transformative systems approach	6
Psychological entitlement and knowledge-hiding behaviours: role of job stress and living a job calling	6
Knowledge management and digital transformation for Industry 4.0: a structured literature review	6
The SCARF model’s levels and differentiation: enhancing knowledge workers’ well-being and performance	6
The impacts of customer involvement and knowledge absorptive capacity on the performance of startups	6
Advancing public sector knowledge management: towards an understanding of knowledge formation in public administration	6
Navigating external knowledge sources: impacts on business model innovation and competitive advantage in start-ups	6
An instance-based-learning simulation model to predict knowledge assets evolution involved in potential digital transformation projects	6
Statement of Retraction	6
Empowering excellence: ethical leadership as the cornerstone for knowledge sharing and employee voice	6
Managing distance e-learning knowledge in the digital age	6
Construction of sentimental knowledge graph of Chinese government policy comments	6
Intellectual capital and national prosperity: an analysis of associations and causal relationships	6
Selective knowledge dynamics and organizational innovation: analysing the role of Relational psychological contract	6

Dynamic linkages of empowering and transformational leadership with knowledge sharing in project teams	6
Want to feel better, share what you know	6
Human factors’ effect on the cycle of knowledge management in audit firms	5
Knowledge acquisitions and group reflexivity for innovative behaviours of SME workers: the moderating role of learning climates	5
Knowledge integration process for adaptive responses to the wicked problem of climate change	5
Bridging scalability and embeddedness: the role of knowledge-based practices in scaling up organizations	5
University-industry knowledge transfer practices in public research universities	5
Formulating the phenomenon of ‘hoarded tour guide knowledge’: the case of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul	5
Impact of knowledge internalisation on organisational performance: a survey of quality practice in healthcare organisations	5
Correction	5
Collaborative construction of meaning: facilitating sensemaking moments through aesthetic knowledge generation	5
A sustainable enterprise content management technologies use framework supporting agile business processes	5
Telework, knowledge management, and job performance in Japan: bridging the digital divide	5
A case-based reasoning system to recommend solutions for source water protection: knowledge acquisition and modelling	5
I feel threatened so I hide: extended mechanism between perceived organizational politics and knowledge hiding	4
Leaders of organisational communities of practice: their characteristics, activities, and fit with their communities	4
Workplace guanxi and knowledge sharing of academics	4
Unravelling t-KIBS performance: leadership, organisational culture, and learning as boosters of service innovation	4
How does multidimensional interaction of knowledge transfer affects digital innovation capability?	4
Reflecting on digital technologies and knowledge assets in the public sector: exploring the dark side	4
Impact of knowledge management on knowledge worker productivity: individual knowledge management engagement as a mediator	4
The role of knowledge sharing in organisational and individual wellbeing	4
Knowledge-oriented leadership for improved coordination as a solution to relationship conflict: effects on innovation capabilities	4
Valuable knowledge creation at the dyad level: inputs, processes, and citation outcomes in management research	4
Digital academic entrepreneurship: knowledge and public value from an Italian case study	4
From authentic leadership to knowledge sharing and knowledge worker retention: mediating role of psychological empowerment	4
Implementing an unlearning approach to combat counter-knowledge in multiple sclerosis	4
Linking innovative knowledge sharing and employees’ innovative behaviour: the mediating role of thriving at work	4
The interaction effect of absorptive capacity and partner types on product innovation in SMEs	4
Actionable knowledge and creative projects: antecedents, practices, and outcomes	3
Impact of informal competition on intellectual property strategies: evidence from developing economies	3
Enablers of and barriers to knowledge management in medium-sized professional service firms	3
Organisational agility: systematic literature review and future research agenda	3
Microfoundations of intellectual capital. Evidence from Italian small accounting firms	3
How organisational factors and clinical decision support system affect nurses’ knowledge for decisions in triage	3
Enhancing employee engagement and knowledge collecting: impact of anthropomorphic features in company generative AI systems	3
Unlocking the U-shaped relationship between digital technology adoption and firms’ innovation performance	3
Toyota’s knowledge-sharing intention in Brazil and Japan: does organisational cross-culture matter?	3
Evolutionary models of academic spin-offs establishment - comparison of Catalonia and South-Moravian region	3
University-industry knowledge transfer in the agri-food: a systematic literature review	3
A meta‑analytic study on the organisational learning–performance relationships via country cultural and economic contexts	3
Negative effects of distance learning accentuated by COVID-19 outbreak: a perspective of learners and teachers	2
Digital technologies and knowledge management in project context: a systematic literature review	2
Relational social capital and tacit knowledge sharing: the mediation of P-O fit and POS	2
Exploring the impact of top management teams on organizational absorptive capacity	2
Facilitating digital collaboration through knowledge management: a case study	2
Unveiling the veil: a comprehensive review, bibliometric analysis, and conceptual framework of knowledge hiding	2
Effect of innovation voucher-based collaboration on high-tech SMEs’ innovation: the moderating role of knowledge stock	2
Role of knowledge management processes within different stages of technological innovation: evidence from biotechnology SMEs	2
Knowledge exchange mechanisms: a bibliometric analysis of knowledge exchange literature	2
Unravelling the nexus: exploring the dynamics of knowledge hoarding, and project success in the IT sector	2
Digital absorptive capacity: developing an instrument	2
Indigenous knowledge management: a catalyst for food security among Ghanaian yam farmers during COVID-19	2
The liaison between performance, strategic knowledge management, and lean six sigma. Insights from healthcare organizations	2
Analysis of core competences and competitive advantages in higher education institutions: An intellectual capital approach	2
Teaching and learning of industry 4.0: expectations, drivers, and barriers from a knowledge management perspective	2
Correction	2
SMEs internationalization by grafting knowledge. Unveiling the enabling mechanisms of strategic knowledge management	2
Knowledge management in industry 4.0 environment for sustainable competitive advantage: a strategic framework	2
Knowledge management effectiveness model in facilitating generation differences	2