Besides, the authors see four general areas that need more attention and development:
1. Longitudinal studies. Issues related to knowledge management require a long-term
focus. Cross-sectional studies are only able to capture this focus to a limited extent.
Longitudinal studies would enable researchers to study whether KM activities change
over time as firms grow older or face new challenges, respectively.
2. Country-comparison. More studies are needed that discuss KM in SMEs, taking country
differences into consideration, since it is only natural to assume that KM activities will vary
from country to country.