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标题：Knowledge management and self-identity as a sub-culturally bound determinant: Subsoil of the hofstede hypothesis
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作者：Gary DeLorenzo ; Frederick G. Kohun ; Robert J. Skovira 等
期刊名称：The Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management
印刷版ISSN：2325-4688
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：89-99
出版社：The International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management
摘要：While organizations have initiated knowledge management initiatives to systematically and methodically capture both explicit and tacit (or silent) knowledge, these initiatives have experienced mixed results. Inherent organizational idiosyncrasies have b ounded the transferability and reusability of the knowledge base. Characteristics such as relevance, timeliness, but most important, cultural context, bind both the generalizable and transferable value of knowledge. For the knowledge to have value and utility, the cultural context must be taken into consideration. The problematic generalization and applicability of the Hofstede Hypothesis is redefined as a matter of statistical aggregation averages. The collectivity that establishes the essence of culture has many faces that situationally define the culture context (i.e, profession, organization, religion, and ethnicity). Application of the model to demographic, professional, organizational, and other identities may be more useful, telling and generalizable than contemporary national profiles. The framework is readily adaptable to identifiable more homogeneous sub-cultures, and hence a potential source of data that can validate the universality of the Hofstede Hypothesis to document multi-dimensional cultural profiles within the context of a national cultural environmen t. This research concentrated on the analysis of the results of two additional questions added by the researchers to the Hofstede VSM2013eng survey designed to capture the participants' self -defined notion of identity to a participant pool of Polish, American, and Slovak individuals including undergraduate and graduate students. Understanding cultural nuance and its pervasiveness is critical to context and its role in understanding human behavio r. Cultural profiles and individual identity can have relevance in the study of the knowledge management, especially in the practical application of an individual's own knowledge
关键词：Hofstede; knowledge management; identity; culture