Creating Collaborative Advantage Through Knowledge and Innovation.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Business Transaction Theory and Moral Hazards for Knowledge Sharing: An Empirical Study Franz Barachini -- 1. Motivation -- 2. Background of the Business Transaction Theory -- 3. The Method -- 4. Results of the Survey -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 Knowledge Management Techniques for Know-How Transfer Systems Design: The Case of an Oil Company Djilali Benmahamed and Jean-Louis Ermine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Method -- 3. Strategic Analysis -- 3.1. Strategy Mapping -- 3.2. Impact of Sonatrach Strategy on the PED Department -- 3.2.1. The PED, a Significant Reservoir of Strategic Know-how -- 3.2.2. Strategic Competences for PED -- 4. Professional Knowledge Analysis -- 4.1. Knowledge Mapping and Criticality Analysis -- 4.2. The Results -- 5. Strategic Alignment -- 6. Capitalization of Tacit Know-how -- 7. Designing Transfer Devices -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Pursuing the Holy Grail of Knowledge-based Economy Assessment: The Case of Singapore Alton Y.K Chua, Abdus Sattar Chaudhry, and Fong Pin Fen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Findings -- 4.1. Knowledge Creation Indicators -- 4.2. Knowledge Acquisition Indicators -- 4.3. Knowledge Dissemination Indicators -- 4.4. Knowledge Application Indicators -- 5. Conclusion -- Reference -- Chapter 4 A Shannon's Theory of Knowledge Benoît Le Blanc and Jean-Louis Ermine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Knowledge Corpus -- 2.1. A Formal Model of Knowledge Corpus in KM -- 2.2. A Formal Model for Knowledge Corpus in Knowledge Engineering -- 2.3. Definitions and Notations -- 3. The Measure of the Quantity of Information of a Corpus -- 4. The Measure of the Quantity of Sense of a Corpus -- 4.1. Definitions and Notations.