Knowledge Management for Sustainable Multidimensional Wealth: Reframing the MSW Model

Abstract

This paper interprets the RMS Model, translated as Multidimensional Sustainable Wealth (MSW) Model, through a functional knowledge management (KM) architecture in order to clarify how multidimensional organisational wealth depends on knowledge-related capabilities. The paper is derived from a doctoral study that designed an integral business management model aimed at fostering Sustainable Multidimensional Wealth (MSW) in firms. That study followed a predominantly qualitative and exploratory orientation grounded in theoretical inquiry, documentary analysis, and interpretive-inductive reasoning, and resulted in the MSW Model, structured around five categories, ten subcategories, and forty-four emerging themes. Rather than treating MSW as a KM framework in origin, this paper argues that a functional KM lens provides a useful analytical vocabulary for interpreting selected MSW subcategories. Recent literature increasingly portrays KM as a field concerned with knowledge creation, sharing, integration, application, governance, and continuity, while also linking it to organisational learning, ESG integration, sustainability, and intellectual capital. Building on this literature, the paper maps five MSW subcategories — Corporate Culture, Corporate Talent, Corporate Intelligence, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Legacy — onto core KM functions. This mapping is used to explain how knowledge-related capabilities can support organisational outcomes that go beyond operational efficiency and extend to broader forms of value creation. The paper makes three contributions. First, it specifies a functional KM architecture and uses it as an analytical device for examining the MSW Model. Second, it shows that selected MSW subcategories can be interpreted as organisational loci through which KM functions are enacted, coordinated, and sustained. Third, it argues that MSW extends current KM debates by linking knowledge-related capabilities to multidimensional organisational wealth, particularly through continuity, legacy, and long-term viability. In doing so, the paper positions MSW as a structured interpretive framework that connects KM with organisational design and sustainable business management. It also suggests a pathway for future empirical research on how organisations may align knowledge processes with broader human, functional, contextual, economic, and transcendent dimensions of wealth.