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Societal View on Knowledge Representation and Management: A Case Study of an ICT Consulting Company

Authors:
Cheng-Chieh Huang
Ching-Cha Hsieh

Keywords: Knowledge Respresnentation; Knowledge Market; Comunities of Practices

Abstract:
This article tries to understand knowledge management issues in markets instead of within organizations past literature focuses. It examines different knowledge integration and representation issues while facing different communities of practice in knowledge markets. In institutionalized markets, the knowledge commodity will tend to represent and integrate knowledge for dominant communities of practice in the regions or country. The practical issues, such as legitimacy of knowledge representation, complexity and dependences of knowledge boundaries, conflicts of social identities, bias of government technology policy are addressed. This paper contributes towards more societal views to understand knowledge exchange, representation value generation issues in knowledge markets.

Pages: 102 to 107

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4332

ISBN: 978-1-61208-115-1

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011