Knowledge management is an integral issue for all organizations, and in recent years, knowledge management in complex organization systems has attracted attention from scholars across a variety of interdisciplinary research fields. In-depth and effective knowledge management theories and methods can help managers to better understand the underlying mechanisms behind many complex knowledge management phenomena, such as the collective evolution of organizational performance and knowledge capital, internal relationships between organizational structure and knowledge diffusion, and the innovation and emergence of knowledge resources.

In this era of the information economy, complex organization systems have complex network structures and characteristics, which significantly influence the behaviors of knowledge transfer, knowledge diffusion, knowledge innovation, and knowledge emergence. Moreover, the increasingly complex coupling relationships between knowledge management behaviors and complex organization systems, as well as the occurrence of new modes of organizational systems and the emergence of large amounts of innovative knowledge, creates challenges in understanding these behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary to further develop theories and methods for knowledge management behaviors and mechanisms in complex organization systems.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together original research and review articles highlighting new theories and methods to deal with the complexity of knowledge management behaviors in complex organization systems. We welcome submissions devoted to recent advancements in complex organization system theories and methods, and their application to address the challenges of knowledge management research. Other empirical or theoretical approaches related to knowledge management behaviors and mechanisms in complex organization systems will also be considered.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Application of complex system theories and methods for knowledge management
• Complex network theory in knowledge diffusion
• Synergetic theory in knowledge innovation organizations
• Application of social network analysis in knowledge discovery
• Application of evolutionary game model in knowledge sharing
• Chaos theory and its application in knowledge innovation organizations
• Multi-agent models and their applications in knowledge transfer
• System dynamics models in knowledge innovation and spillover
• Complex adaptive system theory in knowledge innovation networks
• Ecological niche model in organizational knowledge emergence
• Collective evolution mechanism of organizational performance and knowledge capital