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AL-HAWAMDEH, Suliman |
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Knowledge management: re-thinking information management and facing the challenge of managing tacit knowledge
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Information Research, 2002, vol.8, n.1, paper no. 143 |
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On line ( 13/06/2004) |
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Knowledge management has generated much interest in recent years and has become the latest management buzz in town. Many people start wondering whether knowledge management is here to stay or it is just another consultancy fad. To put things in perspective, it is important to look at the sequence of events that led to the rise of knowledge management. The arrival of the information society and the move toward the knowledge-based economy highlighted the importance of tacit knowledge and the need to manage knowledge resources including skills and competencies. Knowledge management as a concept with people taking the centre stage has prompted us to rethink information management and shift focus from trying to develop intelligent systems to that of developing tools for intelligent people. It is this realization in my opinion that makes knowledge management attractive to many organizations. While the focus in information management is mostly on explicit knowledge, knowledge management brings a new dimension, the need to manage tacit knowledge by focusing on people and enhance their capability by improving communication, information transfer and collaboration (AU) |
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knowledge management; information management; explicit knowledge; tacit knowledge |
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ALAVI, Maryam; TIWANA, Amrit |
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Knowledge Integration in Virtual Teams: The Potential Role of KMS.
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002, vol.53, n.1, pp.1029–1037. |
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Virtual teams are becoming a preferred mechanism for harnessing, integrating, and applying knowledge that is distributed across organizations and in pockets of collaborative networks. In this article we recognize that knowledge application, among the three phases of knowledge management, has received little research attention. Paradoxically, this phase contributes most to value creation. Extending communication theory, we identify four challenges to knowledge integration in virtual team environments: constraints on transactive memory, insufficient mutual understanding, failure in sharing and retaining contextual knowledge, and inflexibility of organizational ties. We then propose knowledge management system (KMS) approaches to meet these challenges. Finally, we identify promising avenues for future research in this area. (AU) |
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knowledge management; knowledge management system; virtual environment |
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BARCLAY, Rebecca O.; MURRAY, Philip C. |
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What is knowledge management?
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Knowledge Praxis, 1997. |
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Knowledge management often encompasses identifying and mapping intellectual assets within the organization, generating new knowledge for competitive advantage within the organization, making vast amounts of corporate information accessible, sharing of best practices, and technology that enables all of the above - including groupware and intranets. Knowledge management draws from a wide range of disciplines and technologies: cognitive science, expert systems, artificial intelligence, library and information science, semantic network… |
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knowledge management; concept |
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BEGHTOL, Clare |
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A proposed ethical warrant for global knowledge representation and organization systems
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Journal of Documentation, 2002, vol.58, n.5, pp.507-532. |
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New technologies have made the increased globalization of information resources and services possible. In this situation, it is ethically and intellectually beneficial to protect cultural and information diversity. This paper analyzes the problems of creating ethically based globally accessible and culturally acceptable knowledge representation and organization systems, and foundation principles for the ethical treatment of different cultures are established on the basis of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The concept of 'cultural hospitality', which can act as a theoretical framework for the ethical warrant of knowledge representation and organization systems, is described. This broad discussion is grounded with an extended example of one cultural universal, the concept of time and its expression in calendars. Methods of achieving cultural and user hospitality in information systems are discussed for their potential for creating ethically based systems. It is concluded that cultural hospitality is a promising concept for assessing the ethical foundations of new knowledge representation and organization systems and for planning revisions to existing systems. (AU) |
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knowledge representation; professional ethics; information systems; culture; user satisfaction |
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