Research, organization and applied innovation in Knowledge Management

The Volume represents and reflects the ongoing debate on Knowledge Management that keeps on growing and acquiring both scientific and practical relevance with its heterogeneity of studies, applications and solutions for the current scenario and the next future. In its continuous evolution, Knowledge Management has shifted from being a branch of a wider discipline (i.e. Organizational Science) to a discipline by itself. Also, Knowledge Management has entered and affected other disciplines and fields of study, widening its scope of themes, languages, tools, that now are merit studying through the Organizational and Management lenses. The volume includes the abstracts of 58 research works and it includes also a selection of nine eminent papers that touch on topics that stand out in the aforementioned debate for their current and future implications, i.e. cybersecurity (Koohang A. et al., Security policy and data protection awareness of mobile devices in relation to employees’ trusting beliefs; Carlton M. et al., Validation of a vignettes-based, hands-on cybersecurity threats situational assessment tool), effects of mobile-devices use (Polak P., The consequences of the use of online sour- ces of information and mobile devices in university classes), e-learning (Gafni R. et al., The effects of gamification elements in e-learning platforms), knowledge dynamics in a free- software community (Balle A. et al., Knowledge donation and knowledge collection pat- terns in a free software community), cognitive systems (Huber et al., Some design aspects of a cognitive user interface), conversational systems (Silber-Varod, Is human-human spoken interaction manageable? The emergence of the concept: ‘Conversation Intelligence’), consumers’ knowledge (Ziemba E. et al., Prosumers knowledge sharing to develop and manage products), and ontologies’ evaluation criteria (Dudycz H., Proposal of evalua- tion criteria for editors of ontologies created to represent knowledge in information systems). Overall, this volume deals with the technological aspects and discuss knowledge management at organizational level while being centred around the practical aspects of knowledge management at the individual level. Thus, what the selection wants to highlight is the imperative pivot role humans play in knowledge creation and innovation, thanks to their creativity that will be hard to be replaced by the technological and digital progress. This duality and paradox of complementarity and replacement of human creativity with the accelerating technological and digital progress will be at the heart of the research and practice of knowledge management in the first half of the 21st century