Meet the editor

Dr. Mark Wickham is a senior lecturer in the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania. After working as a manager in the retail sector for 15 years, he changed to an academic career to build on his managerial and marketing experience. Since 2004, Dr. Wickham has worked in various capacities at the University of Tasmania, and has develop teaching and research interests relating to corporate social responsibility,

strategic management, sustainability, and reputation management in not-for-profit industry settings. Recently, Dr. Wickham has increased his research focus on the use of the resource-based view of the firm to explore the antecedents of strategic sustainability management, of which the knowledge management concept is key.

Contents

**Section 1**

Matters

**Section 2**

Innovative Activities

*by Laura Zapata-Cantú*

*by Michel Grundstein*

in the Finance Sector

*by Giovanna Testa*

*by Arkady Trachuk and Natalia Linder*

Toward Management Based on Knowledge

*by Timothy Donnelly and Mark Wickham*

Support Knowledge Management Strategies? *by Hadi El-Farr and Rezvan Hosseingholizadeh*

The Case Study of an Italian District

**Preface III**

Tacit Knowledge Management **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Knowledge Spillover Effects: Impact of Export Learning Effects on Companies'

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 33**

Strategic Knowledge Management **55**

**Chapter 4 57** Knowledge Management and Its Role in Strategic Sustainability Management

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 105**

The Management, Sharing and Transfer of Knowledge in the Oil Districts -

Aligning Human Resource Management with Knowledge Management for Better Organizational Performance: How Human Resource Practices

Knowledge Generation to Foster Innovation in Mexico: How Human Capital
