by Seow Ting Lee (Illinois State University, USA) & I-Huei Cheng (University of Alabama, USA)

This book brings together the theories of knowledge management and communication to examine the goals, functions and effects of knowledge management on journalism, public relations, and advertising. Through numerous case studies, it investigates the critical inter-relationships between communication and knowledge creation in theory and practice. It also examines the dynamics of knowledge transfer, tacit knowledge, and the challenges of harnessing, transferring, and sharing tacit knowledge. It offers new insights into knowledge transfer and provides practical recommendations to organizations, students, academics and mass communication practitioners.

• Theoretical Concepts:
  • Communication Theories
  • Knowledge and the Challenge of Managing Knowledge
• Applications:
  • Introduction — Transfer of Tacit Knowledge
  • Case Studies