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Abstract: As global enterprise grows increasingly reliant on electronic data, processes, and procedures, studies of the management of organizational knowledge are emerging at the forefront of critical research. This book combines cutting-edge research on the cultural, technical, organizational, and human issues surrounding the creation, capture, transfer, and use of knowledge in today's organizations. Providing foremost information on topics such as organizational memory, knowledge management in enterprises, enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and transfer, and emerging technologies of knowledge management, this estimable reference offers vital research information to practitioners and scholars in a variety of settings.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The need for knowledge management / Murray Jennex
• 2. The impact of culture and context on knowledge management / Murray Jennex
• 3. Addressing contextual issues in knowledge management / Adekunle Okunoye, Nancy Bertaux
• 4. A model of knowledge management success / Murray Jennex, Lorne Olfman
• 5. Think social capital before you think knowledge transfer / Karma Sherif, Ahmed Sherif
• 6. Human effect of knowledge sharing / Jaekyung Kim, Sang Lee, David Olson
• 7. Toward a receiver-based theory of knowledge sharing / Sharman Lichtenstein, Alexia Hunter
• 8. A dialectic on the cultural and political aspects of information and knowledge sharing in organizations / Dennis Hart, Leoni Warne
• 9. A conceptual model for knowledge sharing as dependent on cultural factors / Abel Usoro, Matthew Kuofie
• 10. Integrating knowledge management with programme management / Jill Owen
• 11. Developing and analysing core competencies for alignment with strategy / Keith Sawyer, John Gammack
• 12. A case-classification-conclusion 3Cs approach to knowledge acquisition / Debbie Richards, Megan Vazey
• 13. knowledge management systems / Dick Stenmark, Rikard Lindgren
• 14. Community of practice / Gerlinde Koeglreiter, Luba Torlina
• 15. A method for knowledge modeling with Unified Modeling Language (UML) / Sung-kwan Kim, Seongbae Lim, Robert Mitchell
• 16. Improvement of software engineering processes by analyzing knowledge-intensive activities / Jane Fröeming, Norbert Gronau, Simone Schmid
• 17. Using social networking analysis to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst senior managers in multinational organisations / Bonnie Cheuk
• 18. Leveraging current experiences for future actions / Alton Chua, Wing Lam
• 19. Knowledge characteristics, knowledge acquisition strategy and results of knowledge management implementations / Wen-Jang Jih, Cheng Chen, Andy Chen

• 20. Emergency preparedness and information systems / Murali Raman, Terry Ryan, Lorne Olfman, Murray Jennex
• 21. Knowledge management and Hurricane Katrina response / Tim Murphy, Murray Jennex.

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Contributors:

Jennex, Murray E., 1956-

IGI Global

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Knowledge management

General Notes:

Issued as part of Advances in Knowledge Management (AKM) book series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-373) and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 2, 2010).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages : charts)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD30.2 .C868 2008eb

ISBNs:

9781599049199 (ebook)
1599049163 (hardcover) [Invalid]
99781599049168 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781616927066 (pbk.) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-59904-916-8

OCLC Numbers:

456153126

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00541064 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00000219