Knowledge management has had a mixed impact on the philosophies and practices of the library and information professions. Gates “Knowledge Management in a Technological Society: Government by Indicators”, Nicholas Henry “Bureaucracy, Technology and Knowledge Management.
Conceptual Foundations of Knowledge Management
Day also noted the influence of Martin Heidegger's phenomenology, William Benjamin's experiential view of knowledge, and the concept of post-Fordism, a term used to describe the transition from a primarily industrial economy to a primarily knowledge-based economy.36 Black found predecessors to many of the principles. of knowledge management in the special library movement of the early twentieth century, noting that "formal recognition was given to the importance of knowledge as a primary factor of production by firms that pioneered the in-house technical and commercial library."37 Wilson considered knowledge management primarily . as an outgrowth of the "scientific management" movement led by Taylor in the late nineteenth century and the "human relations school" that emerged in the 1930s.
Critiques of Knowledge Management
Murray, "What is Knowledge Management?" Knowledge Praxis (1997), www.mediaaccess.com/whatis.html (accessed December 14, 2005). George Frederick Goerl, "Cybernetics, Professionalism, and Knowledge Management: An Exercise in Assumptive Theory," Public Administration Review 35 (Nov.
The Nature of Knowledge
This integration of the explicit and tacit dimensions of knowledge has been largely lost in the application of Polanyi's ideas to knowledge management. Popper offers a few "experiments" in the form of scenarios to help explain the nature of the developing world.
Communities of Practice
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The role of language in legitimate peripheral participation is evidenced in the development of discourses of teaching and practice. A major difference between the apprenticeship paradigm and the mentoring paradigm lies in the nature of the risks associated with the relationship.
Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations
The roles of the departments became less important and the team began to function as a connected whole. The systems approach is one of the classic works in the field of general systems theory. A scientist in the field of management sees the nature of the entire system as a determinant of individual behavior.
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York: . Doubleday, 1990). Senge is co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994), The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999), Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators , Parents and All Who Care About Education (2000), and Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (2005). The Fifth Discipline is not necessarily easy to read; reviews of the book were mixed.
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 7. Genevieve Stuttaford, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Publishers Weekly, June . Gustavo Stubrich, “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization,” Columbia Journal of World Business 28 (Summer.
Intellectual Capital and the Knowledge Economy
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After immigrating to the United States in 1993, he worked on the faculty of the University of Buffalo until 1947. Although Machlup contributed to many aspects of economics, his most important and most recognized contribution is in the field of knowledge economics. The fact is that ever-increasing shares of the state budget are allocated to the production of knowledge.
One can strongly support the judgment that knowledge production provides social benefits beyond the private benefits accruing to the recipients of knowledge. In these 11 points, formulated in the early years of the 1960s, Machlup deftly summarizes all the core issues and questions of the knowledge economy. The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States takes what Machlup defines as a knowledge industry rather than a knowledge occupation approach to the categorization of the knowledge economy, dividing the knowledge industries into five main groups: (1) education, (2) research and development, (3 ) communication media, (4) information machines, and (5) information services.
Drucker was arguably one of the most influential leaders, writers and thinkers in the field of management. The aim of the chapter is to provide a description of knowledge markets in organizations and "develop a preliminary taxonomy" of the knowledge marketplace. Davenport and Prusak conclude that the price system of the knowledge market is fundamentally different from other price systems, especially in connection with the internal exchange of knowledge in an organization.
Knowledge Sharing
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Invisible Colleges, one of the most important works on the phenomenon of knowledge sharing as it applies to scholarly and scholarly communities, is represented by more than seven hundred entries in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Crane's Invisible Colleges represents the first and last comprehensive study of the phenomenon of the invisible college. Indirect interaction, interaction mediated by intervening parties, is an important aspect of the social circle.
An alternative model most often applied to the growth of non-scientific knowledge holds that the origin of new ideas does not stem from the most recent developments, but from any previous development in the history of the field. In the second phase, a defined area of specialization emerges to support and exploit the paradigm, resulting in a rapid growth of the social structure that supports the paradigm. The success of the organization lies in its ability to innovate within the context of the organization's core capabilities.
In the integration phase, the use of the transferred knowledge continues at an improved level and becomes a routine, ingrained, institutionalized process. Stickiness of the knowledge to be transferred can disrupt the transfer process at any stage. The results were analyzed to determine the relationship between stickiness, reflected in the overall result of the transfer and the four stages of transfer, and the origin of stickiness, reflected in the nine sub-characteristics.
Knowledge Representation
Just as there are many different possible approaches to defining the nature of the representation. He played the decisive role in the development of the Differential Analyzer, a protocomputer introduced in 1931; received funding from the US. It wasn't until the microprocessor appeared in the early 1970s that any resemblance to the memex even became a potential.
The most important aspect of "As We May Think" is Bush's discussion of the essentials. The user of the memex has two basic approaches to linking information sources: (1) identifying the existence of a link between two or more items and (2) naming. One of the problems of knowledge representation is that meaningful knowledge is inherently complex and necessarily difficult to describe.
Noting that methods of knowledge representation are necessarily products of the eras in which they originated, Brooks proposes that the "locals of meaning" in extensible technology. From this discussion of the nature of the World Wide Web and its contents, Brooks draws a fundamental conclusion: “The document paradigm does not sit well with many Web experts. First projects to address the sheer size and phenomenal growth rate of the World Wide Web.
Content Management
Much of the content management literature focuses explicitly on technological solutions enabled by enterprise content management. Creating a system that can somehow handle all the world's recorded knowledge has been a dream since ancient times. Creating such a system in the context of the late nineteenth century would necessarily require strong organizational support.
For a specialist, the World Encyclopedia will be an opportunity to participate in a broad discussion of this field. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium and a senior researcher in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of the problem is the spread of information, the essential challenge that inspired Otleto in the late nineteenth century.
The relationship is further complicated by the nature of the medium in which the content is represented. Activities in information and documentation in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Trujillo and David Bainbridge, "The Promise of Digital Libraries in Developing Countries," Communications of the ACM 44 (May
Taxonomies and Ontologies
An example of the first can be found in the organization of household items, such as plates and utensils, in a kitchen cabinet. There is nothing in the nature of the sound generated by the ATM that is intrinsically or permanently related to its meaning. In a taxonomy or classification scheme, the language of the taxonomy acts as a substitute for the language.
Extraction is the process of creating a reduced version of the full document using the language of the document. According to Kwasnik, "hierarchies are excellent representations of knowledge in mature domains where the nature and nature of entities. While a student at the library there, he completed a brand new catalog of the library's holdings.
An extremely important component in the design of the Cutter Rules is its focus on the convenience of information systems users. The problem of social knowledge - the ways in which society knows and the nature of the socio-psychological system by which personal knowledge becomes social knowledge. Jesse Shera, "The Propaedeutics of the New Library," in Documentation and the Organization of Knowledge (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1966), 66.
Informatics and Information Technology
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Humans: Cybernetics and Society Rob Kling, "Towards a Person-Centered Computing Technology". For some, knowledge management is mainly about the effective application of technology to solve knowledge and information problems. As a result, many companies are rethinking the way work gets done, connecting people through electronic media so they can benefit from each other's knowledge.
With the advent of widespread use of computer-mediated communication technologies, such as e-mail and the World Wide Web, there was an expectation that information and its more complex articulation - knowledge - would become more accessible, focused on the needs of specific social sectors and their decision-makers. , and can improve the basis on which public policies are formed."8. They mostly serve as passive infrastructure and are not as central to competitive advantage as was widely believed in the 1990s.
