KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT and STRATEGIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Dr. Rivadávia Correa Drummond de Alvarenga Neto is Professor at Fundação Dom Cabral, a Brazilian business school ranked the 16th best business school in the world and the best one in Latin America according to the Financial Times Executive Education ranking 2008. He holds a PhD in Information Science from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Federal - UFMG, Brazil.
Rivadávia speaks regularly on the subject of knowledge management and he conducted the first in depth qualitative study within the Brazilian organizational context in 2005. Since 2001 he's been working with many international firms, such as Petrobras, Embrapa, ONS, Astra Zeneca, Linde, ABN Amro Bank, Anglo American, among others.
His newest book has just been released in Brazil (Knowledge Management in Organizations, Editora Saraiva, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008).
Research interests: Knowledge Management, Organizational Knowledge and Knowledge Creation in Organizations, Organizational Learning, Intellectual Capital, Information Systems and Information Strategic Management, Praxis Communities, Innovation Management, Organizational Theory, Educational Planning and Management, Marketing and Competitive Intelligence.
Riva's websitee-mail: rivadavia@fdc.org.br
Dr Rivadávia Alvarenga was Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Information, January - June 2009.
Alvarenga Neto, Rivadávia & Choo, C.W. 2010. Beyond the Ba: Managing Enabling Contexts in Knowledge Organizations. Journal of Knowledge Management 14(4): 592-610. [PDF]