eBusiness achieves business goals using information and knowledge exchange to enable execution of inter-organizational business activities and support decision making underlying these activities. Mechanisms for knowledge transparency through standardized knowledge representation, storage, use, and sharing are essential to realize these goals. This paper addresses of knowledge integration and ma...

Knowledge Engineering methodologies suggest to develop knowledge-based systems by means of abstract conceptual models such as ontologies. However, they provide little support for integrating these models into the overall software architecture. As a result, moving from high-level conceptual models to a reliable and maintainable implementation is difficult and expensive. The central idea of the S...

In recent years there has been a growing interest among product development organizations to capitalize on engineering knowledge as their core competitive advantage for innovation. Capturing, storing, retrieval, sharing and reusing of engineering knowledge from a wide range of enterprise memory systems have become crucial activities of knowledge management practice in competitive organizations....

We investigate how boundaries in knowledge control, sharing and co-ordination influence UK and German manufacturing firms’ innovation intensity (an indicator of the volume of product change) and product life (an indicator of the pace of generational change). In general UK plants more commonly face knowledge control boundaries related to plant ownership or control, while German plants more commo...

Identifying and sharing best practices in a domain means duplicating successes, which help people, learn from each other and reuse proven practices. Successful sharing of best practices can be accomplished by establishing a collaborative environment where users, experts and communities can interact and cooperate. A detailed review of previous research in best practice knowledge management shows...

Sharing information and knowledge in environments where heterogeneous knowledge{based systems have to be integrated requires methodologies to systematically overcome the incompatibilities on various levels of communication. Besides overcoming incompatibilities on the syntax level (diierent representation languages) and diiering ontologies (diierent semantics) a unifying approach on the communic...

The management of knowledge and know-how becomes more and more important in organizations. Building corporate memories for conserving and sharing knowledge has become a rather common practice. However, we often forget that the efficiency of these activities is strictly connected to the appropriation capacities and learning of the organizational actors. It is through this learning that new skill...