TITLE : KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
MATERIAL TYPE : BOOK
AQUISITION NO. : 14035
This book explores the application of IS to the management of
organizational knowledge. This text has arisen from extensive
investigation into the impacts of KM upon business, which has
typically been highly dependent upon recent technologocal
developments. It has also arisen from a personal review of the
available literature on this and related topics, based on the authors'
own experience, and in the context of recent developments in the
field.
While this book will hopefully be of interest to executives concerned
with some of the many complex and inter-related issues associated with
managing organizational knowledge using IS, its primary audiences are
senior undergraduates and masters students studying for degrees in
busines-related subjects or management informaion system (MIS).
Students who are about to begin research in this area should also find
the book of particular help in providing a rich source of material
reflecting leading-edge thinking.
The collected papers in this book illustrate the wide variety of
business opportunities afforded by KM systems. They describe and
discuss the important issues that follow in the wake of organizational
decisions to embark upon the development of electronic KM solutions.
The authors of this text hve written recent and emerging research and
have been chosen because their work sits well within the framework of
the book and brings a good balance of theory and practical issues.
In the development of this book, articles were solicited from authors
worldwide. In this, the purpose was two-fold. Firstly, we wanted the
content to have a worldwide appeal. KMS are a potentially global
phenomenon. It was desirable that the selection of authors should
reflect this. Secondly, the purpose wa to present the different
perspectives represented by writers from different parts of the globe.
In all, nine countries are represented, a total of 33 contributors,
largely from Europe and North America.
It is, of course, impossible to cover all aspects of of this emerging
topic. The focus is on attempting to cover some of the more recent and
possibly more important aspects and from a MIS perspective. The
implications are that whilst technological aspects are covered in some
detail, especially in section 2, the book is typically presented in a
mode accessible to the manager or MIS/business student. Moreover, the
book makes use of a considerable number of recent case studies to
illustrate, consolidate and exemplify the important concepts or issues
under discussion.
