Meso, P N (2001) Knowledge management infrastructure systems development and the catalysis of knowledge management processes in web-based virtual organizations. PhD thesis, Kent State University, USA.
Abstract
This dissertation seeks to explain the role of business information infrastructure in effecting knowledge management within web based virtual organizations and to identify the systems development approach most suitable for propagating and enhancing knowledge in such organizations given a rapidly evolving business environment. Drawing from research in the area of business information infrastructure and the more recent area of knowledge management, it extends the conventional framework for business information infrastructure into a knowledge management infrastructure framework. Contributions from the theory of complexity and complex adaptive systems are then used to explain the catalytic effects of systems development methodologies on the enhancement of the knowledge management infrastructure and the leveraging of knowledge within a web based virtual organization. The impacts of key methodologies on the leveraging of the firm's knowledge via the catalysis of knowledge management processes and the continuous enhancement of the knowledge management infrastructure are then examined.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Thesis advisor: | Madey, G R and Troutt, M D |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | complexity; knowledge management; complex adaptive system; virtual organization |
| Index terms: | business information, virtual organization, methodology, knowledge management, complexity, complex adaptive system, drawing, dissertation |
| Subjects: | research dissemination and communication, business, innovation and technology management, technical documentation, professional development, research methods, information systems, systems engineering |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Digital Applications, Organizational Design, Research Practice, Information Management, Engineering Principles |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCT |
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