Title:
A Conceptual Review on
KM
Frameworks
Abstract: Knowledge management has been
somewhat
of an impetus to business approaches among today’s global business
enterprises.
This phenomenon is evident in the changing trends of business outlook
and
perspective (example: focus on intangible assets such as ideas,
experience
and knowledge) due to the growth of knowledge-based industries
(example:
Yahoo, Goggle, Amazon) and innovation propelled by the advent of the
Internet.
Drucker (1998) predicted that the organization of the future would be
knowledge-based
and would comprise of specialists that form self-managed teams and
performs
through organized feedback from colleagues, customers and
headquarters.
The underlying theme of KM seems to be based on deriving value,
collaborative
networks and learning skills. (Malhotra, 2000). Consequently companies
are
compelled to be able to be innovative and leverage on intangible
knowledge
(example ideas, experience) to sustain performance within the
business-web
(b-webs) environment. As such this paper aims to develop a conceptual
KM
framework for B-web enterprises in order to identify new business
drivers
and understanding the level of complexity of knowledge internalization
throughout
organizational processes. This conceptual framework represents the
first
stage of an empirical study on the extent of knowledge value added
amongst
b-web entities.
Author: Asleena Helmi