By viewing cooperation and different types of conflicts as “co-opetition” factors in a manufacturer– distributor supply chain, this paper provides a conceptual model for examining the effects of cooperation and conflicts on a manufacturer’s knowledge acquisition process and for exploring the moderating effects of a distributor’s entrepreneurial orientation on the relationships between co-opetit...

Event relation knowledge represents the knowledge of causal and temporal relations between events. Shared arguments of event relation knowledge encode patterns of role shifting in successive events. A two-stage framework was proposed for the task of Japanese event relation knowledge acquisition, in which related event pairs are first extracted, and shared arguments are then identified to form t...

This paper intends to verify the impact of geographical proximity on the processes of knowledge acquisition and exploitation by high-tech start-ups considering at the same time the role of both the social and cognitive dimensions of proximity. Our basic assumption is that proximity means a lot more than just geography. The findings from this research broaden our understanding of how start-ups l...

This paper reviewed the relationships between the Knowledge Management (KM) activities and its perceived benefits in the knowledge based organizations. KM activities include: knowledge identification, knowledge acquisition, knowledge application, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation and knowledge preservation. And the perceived benefits of KM are fast customer responsiveness, operation excelle...

The GNOSIS project in the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems international research program is concerned with the use of advanced information technology for knowledge systematization to support the complex intellectual and managerial processes involved in the manufacturing life cycle. It has developed technologies to coordinate distributed manufacturing enterprises, and these technologies have a...

This paper explored the multiple relationships between intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM) in an Iranian university. For intellectual capital, three components were studied including: relational capital, structural capital and human capital. For knowledge management, five processes were considered, namely creation, acquisition, codification, sharing and application. The rela...

By now, standardization in Web Based Learning, Education and Training has only vaguely or indirectly addressed testing, and performance and quality assessment issues. Standardization of web based learning management systems will significantly influence assessment practices: It may result in either benefits or deficits for assessment solutions depending on the way that will be find out to adopt ...

The competitiveness of small and medium enterprises depends on the quality of knowledge they apply to their business processes. Knowledge management processes are part of the organization business processes. These processes are essential or the precondition for effective knowledge management. Knowledge management processes comprised of knowledge acquisition, conversion, application, and protect...

It has often been thought that our knowledge of ourselves is different from, perhaps in some sense better than, our knowledge of things other than ourselves. Indeed, there is a thriving research area in epistemology dedicated to seeking an account of self-knowledge that would articulate and explain its difference from, and superiority over, other knowledge. Such an account would thus illuminate...

We propose a new concept of knowledge management “Knowledge Liquidization and Crystallization”, and a system “Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer” to support the process. Though there are several theories about knowledge creation (Nonaka et al. 1995)(Fischer et al. 2001)(Shneiderman 1998) and a number of companies have realized their importance, most of them face to difficulty of applying them to the...