ISO 30401: The standardization of knowledge
International Journal of Development Research
ISO 30401: The standardization of knowledge
Received 03rd March, 2020; Received in revised form 14th April, 2020; Accepted 06th May, 2020; Published online 25th June, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Eduardo Zeferino Maximo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
21st century organizations have knowledge as their main input and / or asset. Although its importance is uncontroversial, its management is still problematic, lacking standardization and reliability. In order to minimize the problems and challenges of knowledge management, ISO 30401 appears. Its implementation is still surrounded by doubts, incongruities. The present work aims to expose the difficulties of the adoption of ISO 30401 by organizations through an exploratory descriptive study based on an integrative literature review. It is intended to portray how the ISO standard guidelines for knowledge management are being adopted and to identify the difficulties of its adoption and to propose solutions so that its implementation and use produce satisfactory results for organizations that choose to use it.
