TY - GEN

T1 - Transformation of a knowledge management system in the process of educational institutions' merger

AU - Tkachenko, Elena

AU - Rogova, Elena

AU - Karlik, Alexandr

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Authors, 2017.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - University knowledge management development has an impact on different aspects of universities' activities, such as education, management, innovation and research. Research in the field of university knowledge management systems reveals that the competitiveness of a university depends directly on the level and the maturity of a knowledge management system. The socio-cultural environment which has been developed at the university defines methods and tools for the identification, assessment and transfer of new knowledge. The sustainable functioning of this system becomes more problematic when several independent universities merge. Each participant in this process of integration is the driver of a unique corporate culture, unique system of human capital development, has its own system for the training and professional development of faculty staff, scientific and innovative infrastructure and technology transfer capacities. The St. Petersburg Economic University (UNECON) was formed as a result of the merger of two large economic universities - FINEC and ENGECON - in 2012. In 2013, the new university acquired the University of Service and Economics. This case is of special interest because the merger has affected two scientific and teaching schools that had previously been in the state of irreconcilable competition and opposition to each other. The problem of the merger of these two institutions in an environment of rigid resistance to change has required new solutions in knowledge management systems.

AB - University knowledge management development has an impact on different aspects of universities' activities, such as education, management, innovation and research. Research in the field of university knowledge management systems reveals that the competitiveness of a university depends directly on the level and the maturity of a knowledge management system. The socio-cultural environment which has been developed at the university defines methods and tools for the identification, assessment and transfer of new knowledge. The sustainable functioning of this system becomes more problematic when several independent universities merge. Each participant in this process of integration is the driver of a unique corporate culture, unique system of human capital development, has its own system for the training and professional development of faculty staff, scientific and innovative infrastructure and technology transfer capacities. The St. Petersburg Economic University (UNECON) was formed as a result of the merger of two large economic universities - FINEC and ENGECON - in 2012. In 2013, the new university acquired the University of Service and Economics. This case is of special interest because the merger has affected two scientific and teaching schools that had previously been in the state of irreconcilable competition and opposition to each other. The problem of the merger of these two institutions in an environment of rigid resistance to change has required new solutions in knowledge management systems.

KW - Knowledge management

KW - Resistance to changes

KW - Universities merger

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M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85035232292

T3 - Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

SP - 981

EP - 990

BT - Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2017

A2 - Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina

A2 - Mas-Machuca, Marta

A2 - Bastida, Ramon

A2 - Bastida, Ramon

A2 - Marimon, Frederic

A2 - Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina

PB - Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited

T2 - 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2017

Y2 - 7 September 2017 through 8 September 2017

ER -