In a society of knowledge economy, innovation becomes the determinant factor of the development of a country. A mechanism for better knowledge spreading will lead to a successful knowledge economy, within which internet multi-media plays an important role because of its convenience and cost effectiveness of information transference. Therefore, the emergence of internet multi-media determines th...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the dialectical relationship between the structure and capabilities of the firm and the competitive environment within which it operates in order to identify the key factors of corporate competitiveness. The nodal concept of this framework is “organizational capital” which denotes synergistic processes between 1) technological and financial corpora...

In this talk, various trends in the current service economy are explained. Global economy has turned out to be a service-oriented economy, in addition to the fact that the economy is going along with more digitized information rather than just labor intensive human service activities. In Japan's case, for example, more than 70% of GDP has been created by service sectors in a broader sense recen...

Cross-cultural knowledge management in the e-environment results from interactions with others from different cultures that require new understanding and interpretations. The authors find that few studies have been conducted to address the objective of identifying the competences that are needed to promote learning and information processing in the 21st century. The authors’ primary goal is to ...

Drawing upon lessons learned from the biggest failure of knowledge management in recent world history and the debacle of the 'new economy' enterprises, this chapter explains why knowledge management systems (KMS) fail and how risk of such failures may be minimized. The key thesis is that enablers of KMS designed for the 'knowledge factory' engineering paradigm often unravel and become constrain...

The presented paper deals with the issue of social creation of knowledge in the postmodern economic order. The concept of beneficients as a core idea of this conception in connection with thermodynamic analogy in interdisciplinary problem leads to the materialistic and intellectual dual analysis of sustainable phenomenon of development and creation of knowledge. The paper discusses the possibil...