A collaborative enterprise is a more agile organization. The ability of employees to quickly share their insights contributes to an organization's collective knowledge, and has a direct impact on its success. Successful companies continually seek and refine ways to make effective use of their...

Nowadays, when we speak about the economic performance of a firm, region or country, at the regional or world level, we always mention their state in economy of knowledge as well their competitive advantage and how their risk for doing business is being improved.This article tries to establish...

According to the RBV and the knowledge gap theory, the small-business owner with a basic business education is better able to handle the business aspects of an operation. Misunderstanding can range from misinterpretations of the business enterprise to certain aspects of the job, which causes...

Product development is a knowledge intensive process. It is widely recognized as a mechanism that produces firms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has become ingrained within the field of knowledge...

Libraries as knowledge organizations excel in organizing knowledge for the sake of its efficient retrieval. A Library, since being a storehouse of interdisciplinary knowledge and information, access to the universe of knowledge constitutes an essential precondition for information dissemination....

Ausgehend von einer Diskussion der Begriffe Wissensmanagement und Wissen wird im Beitrag der Stand des Einsatzes von Informationstechnologie für das Wissensmanagement diskutiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ansätze, die eine (semi-)formale Darstellung von Wissen ermöglichen und damit die Grundlage...

Knowledge management helps to avoid loss of knowledge, focuses on expertise and allows to accumulate knowledge of the work processes in its different forms, ensuring its permanence. The term benchmarking originates from a term used by surveyors, serving to designate a mark or reference a...

Ontologies are essential for a semantic integration of knowledge components which can be seen as superior pieces of intellectual capital. Knowledge structures connect individual or group knowledge elements from organizational knowledge bases that have been developed independently. This can aid...