Organizations studies are used to borrowing concepts, images and theories from some more or less close theoretical fields, frequently from other social and human sciences. This multitude of inspirations are necessary and offer large potentialities but some scholars regret that organization...

In a knowledge management project, the key issue is to help the stakeholders to choose which parts of their knowledge will need to be specifically capitalized. This means finding a decision support approach enabling them to identify and locate potential crucial knowledge. To deal with this type...

Very often, Knowledge Management System is considered from a technological viewpoint that induces to consider the knowledge as an object, and so to disregard the importance of people. In this paper we suggest a global vision of Knowledge Management within the Enterprise that is represented by an...

This paper introduces a reflection on the types of data to accessed by be extended company's employees from the Knowledge Management viewpoint. This leads us to distinguish between three types of data: main-stream-data, shared-data, and source-of-knowledge-data. In that way, as distinguishing...

In this paper, we propose a method to locate the company's crucial knowledge for improving the quality of decision making in a design project. It comprises of a preliminary survey regarding the approach that has been carried out at automotive company for identifying the crucial knowledge, aiming...