Transforming Knowledge into Business Value: The Bilingual Glossary of Knowledge Management Terms and Definitions

The paper presents the reasons for compiling a corpus of concepts related to information generation and sharing in the 21st century organization, which resulted in the bilingual glossary of Knowledge Management. The latter contains terms defined throughout the sources consulted, as well as the most common terms a reader will encounter in the Knowledge Management literature. The glossary offers its users an easy to access body of definitions and explanations of key terms and phrases related to Knowledge Management concepts and practices, along with their translation into Romanian. By focusing attention on the importance of transforming knowledge into business value, the research made prior to the identification of the glossary entries was based on an approach designed to facilitate a better understanding of the links between Knowledge Management practices and organizational goals.