Organizational knowledge resources typically exist in specialized pockets scattered across the firm. As distributed knowledge systems, firms’ capacity to manage their knowledge resources is linked with their ability to integrate these pockets of specialized knowledge. Firms are increasingly depending on teams to strategically consolidate their dispersed knowledge into productive outcomes. Teams...

Research Article Ing-Long Wu National Chung Cheng University [email protected] Ya-Ping Hu National Chung Cheng University [email protected] Healthcare organizations are essentially associated with highly knowledge-intensive property, and hospital professionals are key to providing high-quality care to patients. KM-enabled performance for hospital professionals is the major concern of se...

Yesha Y. Sivan is the CEO of the K2K Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory. He received a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and the M.A. and Ed.D from Harvard. His current research is in knowledge management and the creation of knowledge systems for corporate, hi-tech, and military environments. His publications include From the MTV Age to the LLL Age: The Story of a Knowledge Infrastructure for the ...

This paper will introduce, compare and contrast two prototype knowledge systems as it presents a more general framework for thinking about how community of practice and organizational perspectives to knowledge management might be integrated. The first prototype is called the Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer (KNC). The KNC is a demonstration of concept developed at the University of Tokyo. It is us...

Reasoning about multi-agents systems at the knowledge level allows us to abstract away from many concrete details of the systems we are considering. Fagin et al. introduced two notions to facilitate designing and reasoning about systems in terms of knowledge. The first notion is that of knowledge-basedprograms. Knowledge-based programs are defined as syntactic objects: programs with tests for k...

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The paper analyzes management practices as reflexive practices based on transactive knowledge (Brauner, 2002). It relates the concept of transactive knowledge systems to central concepts of structuration theory (Giddens, 1984), namely structuration and the duality of structure. Structuration theory provides a practice-based foundation of the concept of transactive knowledge systems. It sheds li...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of knowledge in food tourism in agricultural and/or fishery areas. The presence and role of different types of knowledge are investigated adopting a multiple case study strategy in the regions Lofoten (Norway) and Maremma Toscana (Italy). The following types of knowledge are investigated: local and scientific food knowledge, touri...

Knowledge has become the main value driver for organizations nowadays. In particular, knowledge-based organizations (KBOs) allocate resources for intangible assets (e.g., R&D) in the rapidly changing and highly competitive environment in order to gain competitive advantages. Therefore, how to evaluate knowledge-based organizations has become one of the most important issues in knowledge managem...

plying financial and news information to its more than 40,000 subscribers around the world. To enhance the quality and consistency of its customer-support organization, Reuters embarked on a global knowledge development and reuse project. The resulting system is in operational use in North America, Europe, and Asia. The system supports 38 Reuter products worldwide. This article presents a case ...