Knowledge management is a highly interesting subject in PhD dissertation in the field of public management. It is stated in the PhD dissertation that knowledge management is regarded an important issue, not only by the academic world but also in the view of the legislator public organizations, commercial businesses, investors, and stakeholders. While most of the researches carried out in the PhD dissertation field regarding intellectual investment and knowledge management have been performed in the private sector, recent studies presented in this dissertation have also engaged public organizations, including universities and research centers much engaged for research in this field

Probably, one of the factors that led to attracting many of the public management researchers of the PhD dissertation toward knowledge management is that the main objective of the universities is to make and spread knowledge and that their main investments are carried out in the field of research and human resources. We discuss in this Ph.D. dissertation that despite intangibility of the input and output of the universities, there are limited tools for them to being measured and managed well. An important issue stated in the PhD dissertation is that people’s understanding of knowledge management usually happens intellectually and using linguistic words. The main objective of the PhD dissertation is to present a fuzzy model and approach for knowledge management in the academic institutes. Also, author of the dissertation attempts to analyze the observed gap between expectations and understandings of the employees of the different institutes (who are considered as a society) and also to propose his own developed model