Inter-organizational collaboration is no longer entirely a free choice, but is close to a necessity imposed by economic, technical, and knowledge-related concerns. A deep understanding of collaboration will assist in making intelligent decisions on entering, operating, and evaluating...

Efforts involving multiple institutions, whether aimed at sharing resources, at product development or production, at research, or in other directions, often rely on effective knowledge generation and knowledge management. However, there are inherent new difficulties in knowledge management for...

Inter-organizational collaboration is often viewed through the lens of computer-mediated projects, leading to an understanding of the needed infrastructure and environment as requiring primarily software interoperability. This has been extended in recent efforts by the European Commission and...

Collaboration between organizations raises significant knowledge management issues, especially in software development of complex projects, in which both product and process are themselves knowledge. While research has examined direct, explicit flows of knowledge within project aspects, or...

Codification and transfer of knowledge is essential in the practice of knowledge management. Theoretical knowledge, like scientific theories and models, by nature comes in coded representation for the explicit purpose of transfer. Practical knowledge, as involved frequently in engineering or...

Making knowledge usable as a resource of value creation requires an adequate understanding of the potentials and limitations of the representation and transfer of knowledge objects. Exploring these possibilities and constraints is the purpose of the following sketchy considerations. Highly...

The CIKM project was successfully completed on October 31st, 2003. During 20 months of project work, the interrelationship between Knowledge Management (KM) practice and Innovation in European companies has been analysed and empirically investigated. The empirical field study focused on the...