E-MAIL: [email protected] or [email protected]. Among the central decisions that each week confront a major international weekly news magazine such as TIME Magazine is what to run as its cover story. Barring any sudden or critical global event, which would pre-empt other options, the editorial board faces an array of choices: local politics, cultural trends, a leading celebrity from a particu...

One of the main open problems in knowledge engineering is to understand the nature of organizational knowledge. By using a representation of directed graphs in terms of first-order logical structures, we defined organizational knowledge as integrated relevant information about relational structures. We provide an algorithm to measure the amount of organizational knowledge obtained via a researc...

Researchers have developed various types of Knowledge Management approaches that only focus on managing organizational knowledge. However, these designs are inadequate because employees are often needed to access knowledge from other knowledge sources in order to complete their works. Therefore, a new interorganizational Knowledge Management practice is required to enhance the sharing of knowle...

To the extent that knowledge is the most strategically important resource for sustainable competitive advantage, organizations must consciously and systematically manage their knowledge asset. In this paper, we explore how social media and social capital at the organizational level help organizations benefit from their knowledge management initiatives in turn improving organizational knowledge ...

This paper attempts to bridge a gap between organizational economics and strategy research through an analysis of knowledge and communication in organizations. We argue that organizations emerge to achieve the intensive use of the knowledge that is acquired to perform specific tasks and to integrate dispersed knowledge that is embodied in different human minds. The attributes of the tasks under...

The aim of this paper is to discuss which factors can be seen essentially affecting a company’s learning ability through its organizational receptivity in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. This will be done by developing a typology of the factors affecting company’s organizational receptivity (and absorptive capacity) of new knowledge in inter-organizational knowledge transfer. Yet, only...

the most prominent factor in increasing complexity and vagueness in forecasting general development strategies and directions by managers and knowledge workers in organizations is the surge of human knowledge. so organizations are seeking to identify enablers, measure and provide context for knowledge management in order to deploy their timely the knowledge sources both in and outside their org...

This paper combines ideas from disciplines ranging from physics, epistemology and philosophy of science to military affairs, to sketch a scientific framework for studying organizational learning, knowledge and memory. Threads are woven from this background into a generic analytical framework that reveals the biological nature of knowledge in learning organizations. There are many epistemologica...