Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management

David Schwartz9781591405733, 1-59140-573-4, 1591405742, 9781591405740

The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management is the most comprehensive source of coverage related to the past, present, and emerging directions of knowledge management. It provides a broad basis for understanding the issues, technologies, theories, applications, opportunities, and challenges being faced by researchers and organizations today in their quest for knowledge management. Over 170 contributors from 23 countries have conferred their expertise to this publication, and with 940 definitions and more than 3,600 references, this encyclopedia is the single source for reliable and modern-day research in the field of knowledge management.

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Table of contents :
Editorial Advisory Board……Page 4
List of Contributors……Page 5
Contents……Page 9
Contents by Category……Page 14
Dedication……Page 22
Foreword……Page 23
Preface: Knowledge Management as a Layered Multi-Disciplinary Pursuit……Page 25
Ackowledgments……Page 30
About the Editor……Page 31
Anti-Foundational Knowledge Management……Page 32
Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management……Page 41
Biological and Information Systems Approaches……Page 48
Capability Maturity……Page 55
Communities of Practice……Page 60
Competitive Advantage of Knowledge Management……Page 65
Competitive Intelligence Gathering……Page 75
Computational Experimentation……Page 82
Coopetition……Page 89
Corporate Semantic Webs……Page 98
Creating Knowledge for Business Decision……Page 112
Customer Knowledge Management……Page 121
Data Semantics……Page 128
Description Logic-Based Resource Retrieval……Page 136
Dissemination in Portals……Page 146
Distributed Knowledge Management……Page 153
Document Search Practices……Page 161
Domain Ontologies……Page 168
Dynamic Taxonomies……Page 176
E-Learning for Knowledge Dissemination……Page 183
Engineering Design Knowledge Management……Page 192
Epistemology and Knowledge Management……Page 197
External and Internal Knowledge in Organizations……Page 204
External Knowledge Integration……Page 211
Extracting Knowledge from Neural Networks……Page 219
Frequent Itemset Mining and Association Rules……Page 228
Healthcare Knowledge Management……Page 235
A Hierarchical Model for Knowledge Management……Page 242
Human Capital in Knowledge Creation, Management and Utilization……Page 252
ICT and Knowledge Management Systems……Page 261
Incentive Structures in Knowledge Management……Page 268
Inquiring Organizations……Page 275
Integrated Modeling……Page 282
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process……Page 290
Integration of Knowledge Management and E-Learning……Page 297
Intellectual Capital……Page 305
Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management……Page 312
Intelligence and Counterterrorism Tasks……Page 320
Interesting Knowledge Patterns in Databases……Page 327
Intranet and Organizational Learning……Page 336
Knowledge Calibration……Page 342
Knowledge Communication……Page 348
Knowledge Creation……Page 357
Knowledge Flow……Page 367
Knowledge in Innovation Processes……Page 375
Knowledge Integration……Page 383
Knowledge Intermediation……Page 391
Knowledge Management Agents……Page 399
Knowledge Management Governance……Page 404
Knowledge Management in Professional Service Firms……Page 411
Knowledge Management in Safety-Critical Systems Analysis……Page 420
Knowledge Management Ontology……Page 428
Knowledge Management Processes……Page 434
Knowledge Management Software……Page 441
Knowledge Management Strategy Formation……Page 450
Knowledge Management Success Models……Page 460
Knowledge Management System Success Factors……Page 467
Knowledge Management Systems……Page 473
Knowledge Organizations……Page 482
Knowledge Producers and Consumers……Page 490
Knowledge Representation……Page 498
Knowledge Representation in Pattern Maangement……Page 509
Knowledge Reuse……Page 518
Knowledge Sharing……Page 524
Knowledge Sharing Barriers……Page 530
Knowledge Sharing Between Individuals……Page 538
Knowledge Sharing in Legal Practice……Page 546
Knowledge Structure and Data Mining Techniques……Page 554
Knowledge Synthesis Framework……Page 561
Knowledge Transfer……Page 569
Knowledge Transfer Between Academia and Industry……Page 575
Knowledge Visualization……Page 582
Learning in Organizations……Page 592
Learning Networks and Service-Oriented Architectures……Page 600
Legal Knowledge Management……Page 609
Logic and Knowledge Bases……Page 614
Mapping Group Knowledge……Page 622
Mathematical Knowledge Management……Page 630
Measuring Knowledge Management Capabilities……Page 636
Measuring Organizational Learning as a Multidimensional Construct……Page 645
Mentoring Knowledge Workers……Page 652
Military Knowledge Management……Page 658
MNE Knowledge Management Across Borders and ICT……Page 666
Mobile Knowledge Management……Page 676
Mobile Technology for Knowledge Management……Page 682
Motivation for Knowledge Work……Page 688
Multidisciplinary Project Teams……Page 696
Musical Metadata and Knowledge Management……Page 703
Narrative……Page 709
Object-Process Methodology……Page 714
Ontology……Page 725
Operational Knowledge Management……Page 734
Operational Knowledge Management in the Military……Page 744
Organisational Storytelling……Page 752
Organizational Attention……Page 759
Organizational Communication……Page 765
Organizational Semantic Web……Page 771
Organizational Structure……Page 780
Postmortem Reviews……Page 788
Practice-Based Knowledge Integration……Page 792
RDF and OWL……Page 800
Representation Languages for Narrative Documents……Page 811
Secure Knowledge Discovery in Databases……Page 818
Secure Knowledge Management……Page 826
Sketching in Knowledge Creation and Management……Page 833
Social Capital Knowledge……Page 840
Social Network Analysis……Page 849
A Social Network Perspective on Knowledge Maangement……Page 857
Tacit Knowledge Sharing……Page 864
Task-Based Knowledge Management……Page 871
Taxonomies of Knowledge……Page 879
Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management……Page 886
Understanding Innovation Processes……Page 893
Understanding Organizational Memory……Page 901
Virtue-Nets……Page 907
Work and Knowledge……Page 915
Workflow Systems and Knowledge Management……Page 923
Index of Key Terms……Page 930
Index……Page 938