Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I - Overview and Background -- 1 - Why Organizations Don't ''Know What They Know'': Cognitive and Motivational Factors Affecting the Transfer of Expertise -- 2 - A Critical Evaluation of Knowledge Management Practices -- 3 - Coming to the...

Expert systems are computer systems, built through interaction with actual experts, that mimic human experts within a narrow domain. This paper describes the development of an expert system, NEWPRODEX, designed to screen industrial product concepts, identify potential financial successes, and...

The main aim of the research work presented in this thesis, is the development of anovel framework with the capability of assessing the impact of implementing leanmanufacturing within small-to-medium sized manufacturing firms (SMEs). By assessingthe impact of lean implementation, SMEs can make...

In this paper, we explore the standardization of contemporary management knowledge, focusing in particular upon the role of standards in creating and reifying organizational objects, with powerful consequences and with often unrecognized ethical implications. It is our argument that modernist...

Introduction -- The knowledge economy framework -- The Korean context -- Overview of the study -- Overview of Korea's development process until 1997 -- Development strategies and policies: chronological review -- Economic growth and structural changes -- Elements of success for Korea's economic...

Korea's development process offers valuable lessons for other developing and less developed economies. In particular, the way Korea uses outside technologies, by accumulating indigenous capabilities, is still valid in the era of the knowledge economy. This volume examines the Korean model and...

This book focuses on three interdependent challenges related to managing transitions toward sustainable development, namely (a) mapping sustainability for global knowledge e-networking, (b) extending the value chain of knowledge and e-networking, and (c) engaging in explorations of new methods...

Zusammenfassender Überblick über die modernen Möglichkeiten des Daten- und Wissensmanagements. Der Autor stellt die wichtigsten Konzepte zur Organisation von Daten und Wissen in Unternehmen dar und skizziert die relevanten technischen Ansätze zur wissensorientierten Informationsverarbeitung....