7th International Conference on Knowledge Management, Graz, Austria, 5 - 07 September 2007, pp.253-262, (Full Text)
In today’s digital economy, knowledge manegment is critical to the success of many
organizations. This paper is based on a research which examined the practices of knowledge
management in Turkish large companies. The research sample was 214 Turkish organizations.
Data were obtained by questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS. The main findings revealed that
the majority of respondents believed that their knowledge management system was very
important to the development of their organizations, and that the most important sources of
ideas come from customers. The most important method used by Turkish organizations to
facilitate the sharing of knowledge between employees was internet. This research produces
some useful insights and leaving a number of issues for future research.