The Role of Knowledge Management in Designing and Achieving Business Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2026 | Viewed by 7920
Special Issue Editors
Interests: knowledge management; knowledge dynamics; knowledge strategies; strategic management
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Interests: knowledge dynamics; knowledge management; organizational learning; intellectual capital; entrepreneurship
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue is to explore the role played by Knowledge management in designing and achieving Business sustainability in the context of knowledge economy. Knowledge became, in recent decades, a strategic resource that is crucial in developing dynamic capabilities and achieving competitive advantage. Knowledge-intensive businesses had almost an exponential evolution in recent years, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Managing uncertainty as a result of knowledge absence is based on the capacity of knowledge management to create new knowledge and to share it intra-organizational and inter-organizational stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship. Business development is strongly dependent on efficient knowledge management systems and knowledge strategies. The purpose of the present Special Issue is to reveal the dynamics between Knowledge management and Business sustainability, and to explore new ideas, theories, models, strategies and practical lessons which can be implemented by companies to increase their competitiveness and value creation for society. At the same time, they will contribute to the advancement of the knowledge foundations of business management and creating the wise companies, as described by Ikujiro Nonaka and Takeuchi Hirotaka. The topics we suggest for this Special Issue, but, not limited to, are the following:
- Knowledge management capacity to create the premises for achieving business sustainability.
- Knowledge management in times of crises and lessons learned for business development from the COVID-19 pandemic.
- New models for knowledge dynamics which can explore knowledge management systems beyond the models created by Ikujiro Nonaka and his colleagues.
- Knowledge dynamics and its role in developing dynamic capabilities and achieving competitive advantage and business sustainability.
- Knowledge dynamics and its importance in business decision-making.
- Knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and business innovation.
- Knowledge risks and business risks.
- Organizational learning and the learning organizations.
- Organizational spirituality and the wise company.
- Consumer knowledge management and consumer behavior.
- Knowledge leadership and business performance.
- Knowledge strategies and business sustainability.
- Artificial intelligence impact on knowledge management and business sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Constantin Bratianu
Dr. Ruxandra Bejinaru
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- knowledge dynamics
- knowledge sharing
- knowledge management
- knowledge risks
- knowledge strategies
- business strategies
- business competitiveness
- sustainability
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