A Comparative Study of National and International Conferences on Knowledge Management for Scientific Policymaking of the Country’s Conferences

A general comparison of the national and international conferences on knowledge management indicates that national conferences have not been able to cover parts of modern fields of knowledge management. Hence, this research is intended to have a meta-analysis of the national and international knowledge management conferences in different areas first, and in the next phase, to compare national and international conferences to identify the gap between these two areas. Given the goals of the research, the researchers employed quantitative meta-analysis method. First, the national conferences in Iran were analyzed in terms of the content of conferences and the time of their holding. In the next phase, 19 significant international conferences held in 2018 were analyzed in terms of the content, the host country, as well as the month of their holding. Eventually, a comparison was held between these two series of conferences and practical suggestions were presented in this regard. Comparison between the issues related to the national knowledge management conferences in Iran and those of international ones indicated that issues related to organizational intelligence and the use of artificial intelligence in decision making support systems, networking, social media, virtual expert communities and privacy of data have declined. In fact, national knowledge management conferences have not discerned some knowledge management software and it is necessary to pay more attention to them in planning of future conferences.