Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...

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...

Knowledge is not manageable as if it was a data or information. Consequently, Knowledge Management (KM) must address activities that utilize and create knowledge more than knowledge by itself. With regard to this issue, we elaborated a sociotechnical approach of Knowledge Management within the...

Environment is a broad and complex issue. It is likely be inaccessible to most laypersons, whereas, environmental experts are likely to have a limited field of expertise. Hence, there is a need for comprehensive and accurate environmental information in many situations. This research aims at...

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...

This article, introduces a Model for Global Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME). This model supplies a global vision that reconciles the two main approaches underlying KM, a technological approach, and a managerial approach. It can be seen as a pattern useful for the conception...

This chapter emphasizes the problem of capitalizing on company knowledge. Capitalizing on company knowledge means considering certain knowledge used and produced by the company as a storehouse of riches and drawing from these riches interest that contributes to increasing the company's capital....