Table 8. Summary of KC process papers in IT projects.

Table 8 shows the details of 12 KC process papers by the theory used, respondent group and key findings.

	Author	Theory used	Respondent group	Key findings
1	68 Kippenberger (1997)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Organization workers	Organizational knowledge creation making accessible and amplifying knowledge developed by people, as well as crystallising and linking it with an organization’s knowledge system.
2	69 Eliufoo (2008)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Construction firms manager	Social characteristics are critical for organisations to improve knowledge.
3	70 Spraggon & Bodolica (2008)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	IT firms manager	Discovered virtual socialization mode in IT software firms.
4	71 Matysiewicz et al. (2013)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Scientific networks participants	Participants are more engaged, that partnerships are more established, and there are more prospects for publishing and research.
5	72 Naicker, Govender & Naidoo (2014)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Electrical and Electronics engineers	Engineers use socialization and externalization modes of knowledge conversion, but internalization is important in knowledge creation and transfer.
6	73 Marsina et al. (2015)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	IT firms manager	There is lack of IT adoption in Slovakia enterprises for their project activities.
7	74 Shongwe (2015)	Organisational learning theory, Learning Organisation, Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation, Knowledge-integration theory, Communities of practice theory	Software engineers	Engineers can produce knowledge from a variety of sources, including presentations, from the lectures, the Internet, older students, and professional developers.
8	75 Yao, Han & Li (2015)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Aerospace firm managers	Integrate Chinese philosophy I-Ching into dynamics of knowledge creation.
9	76 Moraes et al. (2016)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Electrical and Electronics engineers	The new process of group socialization is used to foster a network of internal connections in order to generate knowledge.
10	77 Chatterjee, Pereira & Sarkar (2018)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	IT firms manager	Learning transfer system inventory foster organizational knowledge creation.
11	78 Rusland, Jaafar & Sumintono (2020)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Navy officers	Externalization and combination modes of knowledge conversion are more difficult to incorporate among the navy officers than socialization and internalization.
12	79 Konno & Schillaci (2021)	Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation	Entrepreneurs	Adding entrepreneurial activities to the SECI model as experimental processes.