Article Review: Knowledge Management in Public and Private Sectors

This article review critically examines an article titled "KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW." The paper explores the concept, importance, and impact of knowledge management (KM) in both the private and public sectors, emphasizing its role in maintaining a competitive edge. The review analyzes the challenges organizations face when implementing KM frameworks, including organizational and cultural barriers, and how these can be mitigated. The article uses an exploratory method, relying on secondary data from journals and online sources, and relates the findings to organizational knowledge management theory and ecological knowledge management theory. The review critiques the article's reliance on older sources, lack of clear theoretical discussion and context, and absence of quantitative research. Despite these weaknesses, the review acknowledges the article's contribution to understanding KM basics, impacts, and challenges, especially in organizational contexts. The review concludes that the article provides a foundational understanding of KM but lacks in-depth analysis and practical recommendations, and does not provide any limitations of the research or address the future scope of the study.

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Arun Kumar, Dr. A. & Kumar, Uday. (2015). KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : A
REVIEW. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 2454-2202.
The purpose of the article is to explain the idea of knowledge management in detail
and its importance and impact in the private and public sectors. The paper analyzes the
challenges that organizations face while implementing frameworks for knowledge
management and how it brings competitive advantage to multinational companies. The paper
also delves deeper into the relations of knowledge management implementation in corporate
sectors and other sectors as well. The research also identifies the cultural and organizational
changes required in public sectors that will enable them to use and share knowledge across
the various departments.
Knowledge management has been accepted as one of the most effective tool to
maintain organizational competitive advantage and survival in the competitive industry.
Knowledge management concerns itself with the management. Development and utilization
of the competencies of their employees. It enables high production and flexibility of the
employees and thus, practicing knowledge management has become perquisite for the
organizational leaders. Knowledge management is requires a systematic structure and
through which organizations are able to use the tacit and explicit knowledge that the
employees possess to create better value for the organization. the research is conducted
through an exploratory method and focuses on secondary data sources collected from
journals, magazines, articles, web search and media releases.
The organizational knowledge management theory is applicable to the article. The
case studies presented are based on that theory. Organizational knowledge management
theory focuses on the organizational structure and hierarchy that enables or creates barrier to

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knowledge management. The case study of ICICI bank gives the idea of organizational
barriers that are hindering the practices of knowledge management. The paper also gives the
context of ecological knowledge management theory. The context of the educational institute
shows how informal knowledge management has led to a formal framework for knowledge
management. The knowledge management framework of Hansen, Earl, Alvesson and
Karreman is also related to the article. The articles addresses aspects of different sources of
knowledge. The article also mentions the theorists like Peter Drucker conceptualizing the
theories of information and knowledge as organizational resources, Peter Senge who
conceptualized the theory of learning organization, Leonard-Barton who presented the case
study of Chaparral Steel. The paper also acknowledges the contribution of Ikujiro Nonaka’s
and Hirotaka Takeuchi who presented the study of Japanese companies who practi8ce
knowledge management.
The article lacks proper research and credible sources. Many of the previous work that
has been selected is old and thus obsolete. The article provides the objectives at the beginning
but fails to address them in the and in a clear manner. There is a lack of theory discussion and
where there are discussions they lack proper context and references. The authors provide
examples and case studies that contribute to the understanding of knowledge management
frameworks and processes and is probably one of the few strengths of the paper. There is a
lack of credibility because of the dearth of quantitative research. The recommendations made
by the authors are effective though they do not explain a best practice method or proper
infrastructure that would help in mitigating the barriers. The paper has not much significant
contribution to the existing literature or study and thus is not a credible or important read for
knowledge management research.
The information that the article provides are not reliable in most cases. While the
article provides good argument and presents the information in a structured way, there is a

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lack of parenthetic references that makes it difficult for readers to differentiate between the
theoretical aspects and the explanations done by the authors. The paper does not show any
bias but at the end fails to reach the research objectives. The paper seems to be a critical
discussion of the concepts and learnings without alluding to the theorists that contributed to
the research.
The article has helped me understand the basic concepts, the impacts and challenges
to knowledge management. This article is a good read for understanding the basics of
knowledge management and its impact on organization. It helped me understand the barriers
that organizations face in both public and private sector, the stages of managing knowledge in
an organization and two organizational application of knowledge management infrastructure
to enable easy flow of knowledge. The article also does not provide any limitations of the
research while it is evident that there are many. The research also does not address the future
scope of the study.
After reviewing the article I feel that the article could have been made better with
more sources of information and by referring to the respective authors for their work. The
article gives a total view of the basic contexts of knowledge management while failing to
provide any analytical context or findings that will have much contribution to future
researches.

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References
Arun Kumar, Dr. A. & Kumar, Uday. (2015). KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT : A
REVIEW. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 2454-2202.