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The qualitative methodology is bibliographic and comprises \u2013 among others \u2013 the methods of citation analysis and content analysis. A resulting selection of 135 papers, 4 dissertations\/theses and 4 books constituted the research's final database. Data analysis consisted of three flows of activities: data reduction, data displays (in the forms of both conceptual and mind maps) and conclusion drawing\/verification. The results point out to the identification of four major groups of enabling conditions \u2013 social\/behavioral, cognitive\/epistemic, informational and business\/managerial \u2013 which can be singly or freely combined into different knowledge processes \u2013 creation, sharing\/transfer and use \u2013 occurring in different levels of interactions \u2013 individual, group, organizational and inter\u2010organizational. Based on these results, a decision cube is proposed in the form of a framework for designing enabling contexts in knowledge organizations. 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