KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN CHINESE CORPORATIONS

Knowledge management (KM) is a management principle and method that is necessary for a modern organization. Chinese significant high-priority to become a more knowledge-based economy and society means that knowledge management is becoming increasingly important. Knowledge management, however, is a new concept to most managers in Chinese corporations, despite having been implemented in many firms in Western countries ’ firms in the past two decades. This paper will discuss how knowledge works and what knowledge management is and proposes a knowledge management framework for supporting Chinese corporation development. In addition it will analyze the current state of KM in Chinese corporations. Then this paper will indicate why KM is an important development strategy in the Chinese corporations currently and propose how Chinese firms can successfully implement KM strategies in the Chinese culture and technological context. This paper also gives some examples to show how KM can bring a promising future to Chinese corporations. Key words: knowledge management, knowledge sharing, culture, strategy, organization learnin