

Workshop knowledge management in international professional services firms (kmipsf 2005)
pp. 384-385
in: Klaus Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick (eds), Professional knowledge management, Berlin, Springer, 2005Abstract
Knowledge Management (KM) has received considerable attention in the past few years. Whereas there are numerous theoretical studies on this topic, practical success stories are still scarce. This is especially the case with professional services firms, usually considered fertile ground for the ideas behind KM. International law firms, most of all, pose exceptional challenges to the ambitions of KM since common cultural, technological and economic obstacles identified by KM theory cumulate in this market.