Cette contribution présente des travaux sur l'exploitation des techniques d'ingénierie des connaissances en vue de l'élaboration d'une démarche pour le transfert des savoir-faire métiers au sein de l'Entreprise. Ce transfert se base sur la conception des dispositifs de partage et...

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) have been developed in Engineering Designactivities in order to improve the productivity of these activities. Nevertheless it is still verydifficult to identify the impact of such Systems on the Engineering Design Performance.In this paper our goal is to...

This paper looks at what happens when Communities of Practice are used as a tool for Knowledge Management. The original concept of a Community of Practice appears to have very little in common with the knowledge sharing communities found in Knowledge Management, which are based on a revised view...

This paper explores the links between Knowledge Management and new community-based models of the organization from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. From a theoretical standpoint, we look at Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Knowledge Management (KM) and explore the links between...

La méthode présentée dans cet article a pour but d'aider les managers d'une entreprise à écrire et à lire les textes stratégiques et à parler entre eux de stratégie. Nous l'appelons une "grammaire stratégique". Elle vise à définir des propositions stratégiques types qui...

A great deal of studies has focused on the role played by geographical location on the emergence and the building of localised learning capacities (Maskell, Malmberg, 1999). In this perspective, empirical studies have demonstrated that innovation dynamics of clusters results from the quality of...

Geographical clusters are nowadays considered as a relevant factor for competitiveness, thanks to their innovative capabilities. In this context, public policies based on this approach are flourishing all over the world. The French “Pole of competitiveness” (PoC) policy (Politique des pôles...

This research notes aims at assessing the research policy in the knowledge management field conducted by the EU during the last decades. this article highlights the results from this research but also points out the lacks of this research program.

Appréhender la connaissance dans une perspective économique signifie également qu'elle est soumise aux « mécanismes » concurrentiels du marché. Produire et vendre du savoir constitue une opportunité de marché qu'exploiteront des acteurs économiques. Nous analyserons en quoi la nature...

Enabling knowledge sharing among individuals in organizations is fundamental to innovation and organizational success. Nevertheless, despite receiving great attention among both academics and practitioners, knowledge sharing research is still searching for integrated framework. Recent literature...