Track: Knowledge Management Systems
Minitrack: Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange In ----------------Organizations
Knowledge flows occur between individuals, among groups of individuals, and between organizations. This mini-track focuses on examining the nature and role of knowledge flows (e.g., knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing) among entities. Technical, managerial, behavioral, organizational, and economic perspectives on knowledge flows will be accepted and presented in this mini-track.
Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Characterization of the nature of knowledge flows
* Design of information and communication systems that facilitate knowledge transfer and sharing
* Technical challenges and solutions in the development and implementation of systems that facilitate knowledge flows
* Managerial and organizational challenges/solutions in the institutionalization and implementation of processes and activities that facilitate knowledge flows
* Intra- and inter-organizational processes for effective leverage of knowledge through knowledge transfer and sharing
* Enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer behaviors
* Effects of national, professional, and organizational cultures on knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing
* Knowledge transfer and sharing behaviors within emergent organizational forms such as virtual communities
* Role of information and communication technologies in managing knowledge flows
* Knowledge reuse in organizations
* Organizational and economic incentive structures for knowledge sharing and use
* Knowledge acquisition processes
* Effect of organizational culture on knowledge transfer
Co-chairs:
K. D. Joshi (Primary Contact)
Department of Information Systems
Washington State University
Todd 240B , Pullman, WA 99164-4729 , USA
Phone: +1-509-335-5722
Fax: +1-509-335-5339
Email: joshi@wsu.edu
Mark E. Nissen
Naval Postgraduate School
589 Dyer Road, Room 200A, Monterey, CA 93943-5000, USA
Phone: +1-831-656-3570, 756-3570 (DSN)
Fax: +1-831-656-3679
Email: MNissen@nps.edu
URL: http://web.nps.navy.mil/~menissen/
Saonee Sarker
Department of Information Systems
Washington State University
Todd 240B , Pullman, WA 99164 -4729 , USA
Phone: +1-509-335-1183
Fax: +1-509-335-5339
Email: ssarker@wsu.edu