Role of Knowledge Management Process in Community Empowerment as a Social Innovation

Abstract

  Knowledge is a wide-ranging concept having distinct epistemological argument in Western viewpoint meanwhile, the conventional Greek epoch. Referring to previous era, though, there has been an intense curiosity in considering ‘Knowledge’ as a substantial organizational capability. The keen notice in firm’s knowledge and its knowledge management shoots from the evolution into the economy of knowledge, the vital basis of value conception and a sustainable competitive lead. Dependable on the mounting attention on firm’s knowledge and knowledge management (KM), lately several researchers have been endorsing knowledge management processes. The purpose of KM process is to support in creating, distributing and using the knowledge in any organization. Effective knowledge management processes entail social innovation. Thus, active expansion and application of knowledge in social innovation requires an underpinning in numerous amusing literatures. XYZ foundation of Pakistan has deep down role in community empowerment (social innovation) by adopting a complete system of KM processes from the tacit knowledge of the founder till the application of knowledge as the system of XYZ foundation.

          Keywords: Ba, Community Empowerment, Knowledge, Knowledge Spiral, Knowledge Management Process, Social Innovation.