Information today is often distributed among many different system within a complex IT environment. Using this information for creating knowledge organization systems and services thus involves using this distributed information and re-purposing it within new applications. The current trend in Web technologies to build systems not in a monolithic fashion, but rather intended as building blocks ...

Increasingly, both practitioners and theorists put forward " knowledge " as a deux ex machina for achieving competitiveness. Obviously, in a general sense, all firms or organizations may be said to operate on knowledge in developing their strategies, deciding on a division of labour, etc. (Blackler, 1995). This is true about mechanistic bureaucracies as well as more organic or flexible organisa...

many organizations have developed knowledge sharing programs, such as mentoring, and knowledge transfer from retired employees, in order to articulate and maintain valuable knowledge. knowledge sharing leads to the spreading of innovative ideas and best practices. it consists of two important processes: knowledge contribution and knowledge reception. however, knowledge reception can be failed w...

introduction: today, with increasing emphasis on learning organizations, knowledge and learning are considered important factors in organizations and having updated knowledge and information have become an unavoidable necessity to continue the life and stability of these organizations. hence this study was conducted to study  the relationship between learning organization & leadership styles ed...

Background: Managerschr('39') decision making as one of the management skills has always been considered as a major factor in the progress of organizations. Accordingly, identification of the effective factors on it is essential. By understanding this, aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the ethical climate of the organization and the decision making of managers ...

purposethe current study aimed to identify the effective aspects and factors on knowledge culture. it further strived to present a model for explaining the relationship between knowledge culture and effectiveness of knowledge management procedures in a knowledge-based organization.methodologythe study used a mixture of library and documentary studies, and exploratory mixed methods. first, the l...

So far, within the Library and Information Science (LIS) community, Knowledge Organization (KO) has developed its own very successful solutions to document search, allowing for the classification and search of millions of books. However, current KO solutions are limited in expressivity as they only support queries by document properties, e.g., by title, author and subject. In parallel, within t...