Spirituality in Knowledge Management: Systematic Literature Review and Future Studies Suggestions

Abstract

: Knowledge Management has established itself as key to the competitive advantage of companies in the 21 st century. As the mere accumulation of knowledge is insufficient, there is a corresponding need to control and supervise interactions across the organization to create organisational value. Thus, understanding how the composition of the main knowledge management constructs and what influences them is especially important. This research seeks to understand how spirituality amounts to a factor influencing the Knowledge Management. We opted to undertake a systematic review of the literature in order to understand just which links among the constructs feature in the literature. Therefore, we made searches on Web of Science and EBSCO databases. The main contribution of this article is literature systematization and categorization. Our results suggest that spirituality positively influences organizational learning, organizational wisdom, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing. However, we would emphasise that there are almost no articles interlinking these two constructs and hence the need to deepen research into this factor and improve our understanding of its influence in organisations and therefore also present suggestions to future research and the application of different methodologies to advance studies on this subject.