Section II, which is titled “Knowledge Management Issues,” begins with the chapter
“Knowledge Diffusion in R&D Groups: Re-examining the Role of the Technological Gatekeeper.”
In it, Eoin Whelan. Brian Donnellan and Willie Golden examine the traditional gatekeeper’s role
in the internet era and find that it has disappeared and been replaced by two new roles. In the next
chapter, “Managing Asymmetries in Transferring Tacit Knowledge,” Peter Sun discusses the
behaviors that may occur in transferring tacit knowledge between two parties. Susanna Perez
Lopez, Jose Manuel Montes Peon and Carmilo Jose Vazquez Ordas focus on “Information
Technology as an Enabler of Knowledge Management: An Empirical Analysis” in the next chapter.
The chapter by Richard Herschel and Ira Yermish deals with “Knowledge Management and
Business Intelligence” and Line Gry Knudsen and Bo Bernard Nielsen treat “Antecedents of