Evolution and research trends on knowledge management strategies in Higher Education Institutions

There is a growing interest behalf of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to develop and apply knowledge management practices or strategies that are effective within these organizations, since these have the mission of being scenarios of knowledge generation and transfer, because they dynamize the different dimensions (social, economic and personal) that make up society. This research aims to determine the evolution and trends immersed in the literature on knowledge management strategies in HEIs, presenting the results of the development of a bibliometric study based on the analysis of productivity, the most representative authors, the evolution and the tendencies about the proposed theme. The designed methodology analyzes the selected documents, obtained by means of a search equation in the Scopus databases and calculates the bibliometric indicators of quantity and quality. Among the findings, they are emerging as new trends: strategies and tools for online training and the use of social networks for the management and dissemination of information in HEIs. Also, the literature shows that there is better performance in research productivity and efficiency of administrative processes, through the implementation of knowledge management models in these organizations.