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NAVARRO DE GRANADILLO, Ketty. Current State of the Research on the Management of the Knowledge in Family Business. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.1, pp.30-45. ISSN 1315-9518.

This paper expresses the result of an exploratory investigation with two objectives: (i) to examine the current state of research about the management of knowledge in family businesses, with special emphasis on those experiences related to knowledge management, andd (ii) to update the classification of family company studies proposed by Sharma in 2004. This investigation represents the initial stage of a larger research project whose purpose is to study family businesses in Spain from a knowledge management approach. To achieve these two aims, the study took as reference Sharma’s model (2004) for classifying studies about family companies. A search was performed of academic publications registered in diverse multidisciplinary business-related databases available from the library of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain, in the family business area. Results indicated that, starting with the year 2000, the number of publications about family companies increased considerably, nevertheless, the nonexistence of studies on knowledge management in this type of company was observed.

Palabras clave : Family business; knowledge management; knowledge; knowledge creation; business management.