Review of Supply Chain Knowledge Management Literature AddOn: Closing the Gaps

This paper summarize three literature reviews on topic of knowledge management in supply chain which reviewed 176 papers in between 1960 to 2015. These reviews highlight literature focus and identify gaps for further research. In this paper the methodology and literature sources are analyzed and used to review 23 newly identified papers from time span 2016 to 2017 providing add-on to previous literature reviews and showing to what extend identified gaps were solved or not. Paper shows that positive effect of knowledge management on supply chain is shown in majority of studies focused on performance. It also confirms that majority of studies use quantitative methodologies. Another findings are that factors affecting knowledge management phases are not analyzed enough as well as its barriers and also that human performance and cultural effects need a systematic analysis in their impact of knowledge management in supply chain performance. Paper value is in most updated review of literature on topic of knowledge management in supply chain providing starting points for topics and areas which need further analysis and deeper research.