Knowledge Management Research Using Grounded Theory Strategy: Applicability, Limitations and Ways Forward

View/ Open
Date
2010Author
Omona, Walter
Van Der Weide, Theo
Lubega, Jude T.
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Knowledge management (KM) is currently an emerging discipline in higher
education, and its effective implementation is becoming a precondition for success
in an increasingly globalized economy. Because it is interdisciplinary in nature,
carrying out a research in KM requires that one uses appropriate research strategies
that should be used to enable objectives of a study to be undertaken to be achieved.
Based on review and analysis of available literatures, this paper looks at the
paradigms in KM research and examines in details the applicability and limitations
of grounded theory strategy in carrying out KM research. Using the explanation
that KM research is a human activity system which requires both soft and hard
systems methodologies to achieve study goals, a research methodological strategy
is proposed for carrying out research to develop a framework for KM using ICT in
higher education in Uganda as part of an on-going study.
As well as contributing theoretically to the literatures on KM by providing insights
into the applicability and limitations of grounded theory strategy in carrying out KM
research, this paper further seeks to propose a methodological strategy that can be
used in carrying out similar or related studies.