Keeping this in mind, the aim of this paper is to review research on KM within smaller firms to
identify gaps in the field justifying further research activities as well as to clarify areas where
no future research is needed for the time being. According to this aim, the following research
questions are formulated:
B Which KM topics are researched and which are not?
B Which were the main findings of the studies?
B Which methods were used?
B How does research handle the particular challenges small firms are facing regarding
knowledge management?
The paper is organised as follows: In section two the literature related to the research
objective is briefly discussed. Section three then describes the method employed to tackle
the research problem. Next, the results are presented, and in the final section, the
conclusion and implications of the study are laid out.