@MISC{Arboníes_necessaryconditions, author = {Angel L. Arboníes and Jon Landeta and Olga Rivera}, title = {NECESSARY CONDITIONS}, year = {} }
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Case studies are used by the Knowledge Management Society (KMS) as a tool in promoting the dissemination of Knowledge management to other agents. To begin with, case studies are used in teaching. Here the relationship between university and firm facilitates the externalization of tacit Knowledge. What is new is that these case studies relate to Basque firms, are mainly SMEs. This is an important point, since the managerial practice in question is described in its proper context. Moreover, the purpose of these case studies, from the point of view of the Knowledge Management Society, is to promote new Knowledge on the basis of the socialization, internalization, and combination of knowledge through such agents as consultancies, universities, and management-related institutions and other firms. MANAGEMENT AND CONTEXT Ideas about management need to be proved useful in practice. Managers and other professionals refer constantly to what works and what does not. The problem is less a scientific one than one of social acceptance. Social acceptance is a cultural phenomenon in which social agents must modify ideas for adaptation to the requirements of the local culture. Arboníes, A.; Landeta, J.; Rivera, O. (1999)-Case studies as a tool for the externalization of tacit managerial knowledge-There is a system in which agents and institutions interact in this process. No one has control over management. Rather managers, politicians, and consultants are value creators,