Guillermo Antonio Dávila, Universidad de Lima

Susanne Durst, Bangkok University

Organizations in resource-constrained and institutionally weak contexts face significant challenges in maintaining competitiveness and innovation amid political uncertainty and technological change. This special issue addresses the underexamined role of knowledge management in enabling these organizations—including SMEs, NGOs, and entities in developing regions—to overcome financial constraints, limited technological access, and skilled workforce shortages.

Knowledge management has demonstrated capacity to enhance innovation, strengthen organizational resilience, and foster learning even under severe resource limitations. While empirical evidence from emerging economies supports these benefits, research remains concentrated on stable, well-developed environments, leaving underrepresented contexts insufficiently studied despite their numerical significance and potential for theoretical contribution.

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Potential topics

• KM as an enabler of organizational performance under conditions of resource scarcity
• Knowledge risk management as crucial function in environments characterized by internal and external constraints
• KM in underrepresented organisational settings, including SMEs, family businesses, informal organisations, low-technology firms, social organisations or geographically isolated regions
• Organisational learning processes in contexts characterised by institutional and resource constraints
• The role of KM in strengthening organisational resilience during internal and external crises and disruptions
• Necessary conditions and bottlenecks for organizational development empowered by KM
• The interplay between artificial intelligence and KM in overcoming organisational and institutional constraints
• The role of institutional ecosystems and inter-organisational networks in enhancing the effectiveness of KM
• Novel methodological approaches for studying KM in constrained and underrepresented contexts

Timeline

• March 15, 2027: Manuscript deadline