Stream: Theorizing and representing organizational learning and knowledge management. This paper documents the findings from research conducted in late 1998 through 1999 that studied the exchange and creation of knowledge between two large American high technology firms involved in an acquisition. The result is a framework of organizational knowledge consisting of three distinct knowledge types...

Copyright © 2008, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI is prohibited. Knowledge management systems refer to a class of information systems applied to manage organizational knowledge. These systems are IT applications to support and enhance the organizational processes of knowledge creation, storage and retrieval, transfer, and application (Alav...

This paper focuses on the power of expertise in modern societies and examines the nature of expert knowledge in organizations. It approaches expertise as a decisive resource in organizational value creation and treats experts as influential actors in organizational decision-making. The paper is organized as follows. It begins by addressing the power of expertise in today's societies and charact...

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 thesi...

How can practices of knowledge management (KM) enable organizational learning to occur and then lead toward a learning organization? We seek the answer to this question by exploring three cases, Winbond, Worldpeace, and TSMC, chosen respectively from upstream, midstream, and downstream firms in the IC industry in Taiwan. We studied KM practices focusing on aspects of knowledge creation, storage...

Knowledge management (KM) is a newly emerging approach aimed at addressing today’s business challenges to increase efficiency and efficacy of core business processes, while simultaneously incorporating continuous innovation. The need for knowledge management is based on a paradigm shift in the business environment where knowledge is now considered to be central to organizational performance and...

successful implementation of knowledge management fororganizations requires a systematic and comprehensive perspective aboutvarious organizational factors. appropriateness of these factors and theirintegration and coordination is a vital perquisite for implementingknowledge management effectively. the primary purpose of the researchis investigating the effect of three fundamental aspects of int...

Models of work processes and of organizations’ activities are an important part of workflow systems and simulations. However, acquiring and maintaining these models can be difficult. To assist the acquisition and maintenance of organizational models, we have developed a set of knowledge-acquisition tools suitable for use in the domain of medical organizations. In modeling medical organization p...

How organizations create, transfer, and retain knowledge has been the focus of intensive investigation by management researchers for some time. However, one aspect of the dynamics of knowledge – forgetting – has received comparatively little attention. In this article, we discuss the role of forgetting in the dynamics of organizational knowledge. Based on an exploratory, multiple case study of ...