this paper aims to use a priority framework based on decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of km. to identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of km. ...

Advances in technology have led to the development of knowledge management systems with the intention of improving organizational performance. Nevertheless, implementation of this kind of mechanisms is not an easy task due to the necessity of taking into account social aspects (such as reputation) that improve the exchange of information between groups of people. Considering, the advantages of ...

Knowledge is an important resource in many work practices, not at least within professionoriented work. Cooperating and social working environments are promoting creation, coordination, distribution and integration of knowledge that will be used by the individuals in organizations (Sambamurthy and Subramani, 2005). Professionals’ ongoing engagement in work practice means a reproduction of the k...

Knowledge management systems (KMS) are designed to support and enhance the process of creating, storing, retrieving and transferring knowledge. In this contribution we investigate the use of such systems for the acquisition of knowledge in humanitarian disaster response teams. First, we present a framework describing how KMS should enhance group process gains and alleviate group process losses,...