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Analyzing Critical Success Factors of Sustainable Knowledge Management: An Interval-Valued Neutrosophic Approach

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  • Hakan Turan

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli 41380, Turkey)

  • Muhammet Enis Bulak

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Uskudar University, Istanbul 34662, Turkey)

  • Elif Çaloğlu Büyükselçuk

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Fenerbahçe University, Istanbul 34758, Turkey)

Abstract

Knowledge management (KM) is a structured approach that includes the organized procedures of generating, capturing, arranging, storing, retrieving, distributing, and harnessing an organization’s knowledge resources to attain its goals and improve its effectiveness. Encountering uncertainty and managing imprecise information are fundamental aspects of KM that cannot be avoided. In this context, sustainable KM aims to solve these issues and address prioritizing the long-term sustainability and efficiency of knowledge-related processes within an organization. The aim of this study is to structure a sustainable KM concept for organizations and identify the most common critical success factors (CSFs) with a novel analytical approach. In this context, the Interval-Valued Neutrosophic methodology, which is one of the multi-criteria decision methods (MCDMs), was adopted to evaluate and weight the determined CSFs. Four main headings—KM, environmental, economical, and social criteria—are evaluated along with their subfactors. Our findings show that KM is found to be the most important, and environmental factors followed KM. When the results are examined in terms of subfactors, cleaner production is found to be the most significant, with a global weight value of 11.13.

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  • Hakan Turan & Muhammet Enis Bulak & Elif Çaloğlu Büyükselçuk, 2024. "Analyzing Critical Success Factors of Sustainable Knowledge Management: An Interval-Valued Neutrosophic Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(23), pages 1-22, November.
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