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MALHOTRA, Yogesh |
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Is knowledge management really an "Oximoron"? Unraveling the role of organizational controls in knowledge management
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D. White (Ed.) Knowledge Mapping and Management. Hershey, P.A.: Idea Group Publishing, 2002, 1-13. |
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The mainstream concept of information technology enabled knowledge management suffers from the limitations embedded in the traditional organizational control model. Although importance of organization control is acknowledged by many authors as critical to the success of knowledge management implementations, however the concept of “control” is often misinterpreted and misapplied. It is the thesis of this paper that most such assertions are based on incomplete, and often, fallacious understanding of “control”. Several authors have often suggested that knowledge management is an “oxymoron”, however such observations are based upon inadequate and incomplete understanding of “control”. Inadequate and incomplete understanding about organization controls may be often attributed for failure of knowledge management implementations in the new world of business. This paper sets forth two important goals: first, to develop a richer understanding of organizational controls as they relate to knowledge management; and, second, to propose an organic model of organizational controls that facilitates creation of new knowledge, renewal of existing knowledge and knowledge sharing. (AU) |
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knowledge management; organization controls; knowledge creation; knowledge sharing; information systems design. |
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MALHOTRA, Yogesh; GALLETTA, Dennis F. |
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Role of commitement and motivation in knowledge management system implementation: Theory, conceptualization and measurement of antecedents of success
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Hawai International Conference of system sciences, 2003. |
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Our ignorance exceeds our knowledge where issues of motivations and commitment of knowledge wokers are concerned in the context of knowledge management systems (KMS) implementation (1,16,17,18). Thes study is motivated by the pervasive confusion about the role of knowledge workers’ motivation and commitment in KMS implementation and sparse, if any, theoretical or empirical research on these issues. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding how knowledge workes’ commitment and motivation affect the use of KMS and resulting organizational performance of the KMS. The theorical and empirical validation of the framework require first and foremost the theoretical development of the knowledge workers’ commitment and motivation constructs and empirical validation of these constructs in the contest of a real world organizational study of KMS implementation. The authors attempt to fulfill these specific goals within the scope of this paper. Future empirical research on the integration of motivation and commitment within diverse implementation contexts of KMS and organizational knowlwedge management programs is expected to further advance the theoretical and empirical development of the proposed framework. (AU) |
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knowledge management; organizational knowledge |
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MALIAPPIS, M.T.; SIDERIDIS, A.B. |
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A framework of knowledge versioning management
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Expert Systems, 2004, vol. 21, n.3, pp. 149-156 |
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On line (06/05/2005) |
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Knowledge is an inherently dynamic entity continuously changing and evolving. In many cases, the coexistence of different versions of the same core knowledge is a necessity. So is the availability of the proper environment and tools to deal with knowledge versioning. In this paper, a framework of knowledge versioning management is proposed and implemented dealing with hybrid knowledge representation models using frames and rules. This framework facilitates knowledge version handling and maintenance, improving, in parallel, knowledge sharing and reuse. Knowledge components are stored in a set of tables and handled as data under the auspices of a database management system. The proper structure of tables and their relationships allows the creation of independent knowledge modules. Several knowledge modules can be assembled to construct higher level modules, which finally form versions of knowledge.Corresponding knowledge base versions consist of several knowledge modules easy to handle and process in various application areas. The proposed framework has been implemented and thoroughly examined in an application area of great importance, such as pest management. (AU) |
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Computer applications; Expert system; Knowledge representation |
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NAKAKOJI, Kumiyo; YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro |
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What does the representation talk back to you?
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Knowledge Based Systems Journal, 2001, vol.14, n.8, pp.449-453. |
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Our research goal is to support designers with interactive systems by exploring the relationship among representations, their meanings, and their effects. This paper first outlines ART (Amplifying Representational Talkback), a prototype system which we have developed to instantiate our research framework. We then reinterpret the essence of the ART system by illustrating the ART approach with other people's work in Semiotic Approaches to User Interface Design presented at the ACM CHI 2000 workshop. We identify critical aspects of the system from four points: (1) interactions with representations "I" produced; (2) representations as indices for thoughts; (3) hands-on representations; and (4) limiting the automation. By having the ART system as an object-to-thing-with, we argue that communication with interactive computational tools had better been regarded as interaction with representations. (AU) |
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two-dimensional spatial positioning as a representation; human-representation interaction |
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