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Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana and Varela's (1980, 1987) ideas of autopoiesis as extended to organizations by von Krogh and Roos (1...

From Tacit Knowledge to Organizational Knowledge for Successful KM

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Abstract . Certain organizational characteristics as well as Knowledge Management (KM) initiative characteristics are needed in order to have successful KM. These characteristics may affect each step in the KM process differently. One of the most difficult and interesting steps in the process is moving from tacit knowledge to organi...

Knowledge Management (KM) in Agricultural Colleges of Khuzestan Province, Iran

The purpose of this study was analyzing knowledge management in agricultural colleges Islamic Azad University of Khuzestan Province, Iran. The statistical population was (N=210). The sample size (n=108) were investigated. After confirm the validity of the instrument by panel of experts, to determine the reliability coefficient using Cronbach alpha coefficients were obtained for all sections of ...

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Facing changing environment and user requirements, modern distributed software systems often have to evolve accordingly. We propose an extended object-oriented programming model for dynamically self-adaptive distributed software systems. With this model every component of a system is explicitly situated in an active architectural context, which is naturally used to regulate and facilitate poten...