A number of knowledge management (KM) approaches based on individual organizational KM strategies and business requirements have been developed without taking system interoperation into consideration. In this paper, a collaborative inter-organizational KM network is proposed to allow various organizations to access and retrieve inter-organizational knowledge. Ontology and mediation methods are ...

Ronald Maier is a Professor, Department of Management Information Systems, School of Business and Economics, MartinLuther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany ([email protected]). Ulrich Remus is an Assistant Professor, IT-Management and Business Systems Development, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany ([email protected]). Abstract Despite gro...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two-fold: to explore the intellectual core of the knowledge management (KM) academic discipline in order to test whether it exhibits signs of a reference discipline; and to analyze the theoretical and practical impact of the discipline. Design/methodology/approach – The most influential articles published in the Journal of Knowledge Management were selecte...

Knowledge is being discussed as one of the most important organizational resources. But these resources exist in specialized pockets dispersed across the organization, and dedicated knowledge management (KM) programs are required to improve their flow. However, high failure rates of such programs raise serious doubts about their ability to improve knowledge flows. This case traces the KM progra...

Knowledge Management (KM) tools have become an established part of Enterprise Information Systems in the recent years. While traditional KM initiatives typically address knowledge exchange within project teams, communities of practice, within a whole enterprise, or even within the extended enterprise (customer knowledge management, KM in the supply chain, . . . ), the relatively new area of Per...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to provide a review of knowledge management (KM) literature by adapting and extending McElroy’s KM generations model. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws from a range of KM research published in the academic and trade literature. An interpretive stance is adopted to provide a holistic understanding and interpretation of organizational KM research ...

Problem statement: Knowledge Management (KM) has been a practice in many organizations to improve its performance towards reaching the organization goals. Realizing its importance, University Utara Malaysia has organized a series of KM conference called KMICe that focus on the recent and novel research findings related to KM. This special issue covers articles that were presented at KMICe 2010....

Knowledge Management has become increasingly more important as business leaders began to recognize that information, like land, labor, capital and energy, was an extremely important factor in production. As developing countries continue to shift toward “knowledgebased” economies and information technology (IT) radically changes the economic, social and organizational structures of organizations...

Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives promote the management, i.e. the creation, storage and sharing, of knowledge assets within an organization. The practical focus of this special issue is to bring together researchers, professionals and practitioners to present recent developments on the knowledge and competence management areas. KM focuses on techniques of managing a common base of organiza...