The origin of discussions around knowledge management in the organizational context
International Journal of Development Research
The origin of discussions around knowledge management in the organizational context
Received 17th June 2020; Received in revised form 28th July 2020; Accepted 26th August 2020; Published online 23rd September 2020
Copyright © 2020, Marcio José Silva and Cláudia Herrero Martins Menegassi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study aims at identifying the main periods during which Knowledge Management (KM) is approached in literature in order to access the publications which provide the theoretical basis for this discussion. Therefore, an exploratory bibliographical research was carried out that identified publications prior to the 1980s; that is, the main period mentioned in literature on KM.It was also verified that in the mid-1970s there were already publications on KM, originated from the public sector, which had used studies produced during the 1960s. Based on these findings, it was possible to introduce three main periods and their respective approaches to KM.
