TY - JOUR T1 - Investigating Strategies for Dealing with Barriers of Implementing a Knowledge Management System A1 - Neda Ghavidast JF - specialty journal of psychology and management JO - SPEC. J. PSYCHOL. MANAG. SN - 2412-5695 Y1 - 2019 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 23 EP - 33 N2 - Knowledge management has not only been considered for cost efficiency and management ‎effectiveness in problem solving, decision making, innovation, and other elements needed to ‎maintain and develop competitive advantage, but also is designed mainly for organizations to ‎acquire, classify, maintain, and disseminate, list knowledge and expertise forming part of ‎organizational memory in an irregular unstructured way. To survive in today's more ‎complex and uncertain business environment, organizations are forced to implement ‎knowledge management in order to gain competitive advantage; however, due to the high ‎failure rate of knowledge management projects, they are needed to assess their current ‎situation through reliable and scientific approaches and to adopt and implement the ‎appropriate strategies for the project to succeed. Considering the above mentioned conditions, ‎failure to identify and eliminate the barriers before and during the implementation of KM ‎project faces organizations a range of challenges and complexities leading to a failure of the ‎KM project, so that the organization not becomes able to benefit from the implementation of a ‎KM project in spite of devoting a lot of time and resources‎‎. UR - https://sciarena.com/article/investigating-strategies-for-dealing-with-barriers-of-implementing-a-knowledge-management-system ER -