While the process by which Information Technology enables growth in medium and large enterprises has been wellresearched, the corresponding processes in micro-enterprises are poorly understood. In fact, such micro-enterprises lie at the heart of many economies. This insight is important as information technology enables businesses to connect with each other through knowledge networking to carry...

This dissertation deals with ontology based knowledge representation and its use in multi agent systems. It is well known that knowledge has an immense value in all kinds of businesses and people's every day life. The work presented in this thesis aims to make a stronger connection between knowledge management (KM) and multi-agent systems (MAS), mainly by bringing work done in the semantic web ...

Organizational knowledge creation theory explains the process of making available and amplifying knowledge created by individuals as well as crystallizing and connecting it to an organization’s knowledge system. What individuals get to know in their (working) lives benefits their colleagues and, eventually, the wider organization. In this article, we briefly review central elements in organizat...

As more and more firms adopted internet-related technology, many forecasters predicted that the internet would change both the way Americans do business and where they do business. Essentially, the predictions presented two possible scenarios on the latter point. In one scenario, the internet would bring firms together into a single “global village,” suggesting internet technology would diffuse...

Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the relationship between explicit and tacit knowledge in specific organizational environments. It seeks to explore processes and strategies currently being deployed as best practices in the military to see what can be learnt from them and to improve the use of knowledge assets in large-scale organizations in high-velocity and/or turbulent environments. Desig...

This work proposes a competence-based approach, enriched by consensus, for deciding on team compositions, in particular, timeand qualitydependent contexts, where teams have to perform some assigned activities. This problem is very relevant for the dynamics of logistic networks whose nodes are warehouses, distribution centers, and small family businesses that deal with work orders that have to b...

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Current cultural, social, and economic trends challenge traditional concepts of learning and lifelong learning. This paper draws on the twofold nature of learning in a knowledge society and explores options for technological support. The concept of Second-Order Learning Objects is introduced as a potential means to foster generative learning. Generative learning goes beyond that what is already...

This article shows growing popularity of knowledge-based economy and turns attention to the role of knowledge as an important factor of competitive struggle. It presents results of research concerning knowledge management in Polish companies and indicates forms of its acquisition and development. Main barriers and limitations in application of knowledge sources and introduction of knowledge man...