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Knowledge Management Significance in Agile Organization in Lights of COVID-19 Pandemic Changes

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 437))

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The paper discuss how organizational agility can affect the knowledge management processes in organization, especially in case of ongoing COVID-19 pandemics changes. The research problems are to show a link between knowledge management and agility in organization and to examine a COVID-19 pandemics impact on both knowledge management in organization and organizational agility. We carefully examined a literature from knowledge management-related, recognized scientific journals. We searched journal articles from 1994–2021 and divided the results into 3 time periods to show the historic view on knowledge management in agility, the current view in 2015–2019 and latest time period (2020–2021) to show the impact of COVID-19 pandemics on knowledge management and organizational agility. The study shows the relation of knowledge management and organizational agility with some diversity of research scopes related with COVID-19 pandemics. The insights of our research may be useful for organizations in transforming their knowledge management processes in dynamically changing environment.

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Morawiec, P., Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz, A. (2022). Knowledge Management Significance in Agile Organization in Lights of COVID-19 Pandemic Changes. In: Themistocleous, M., Papadaki, M. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 437. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95947-0_50

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