: The paper investigates first the role of artifacts in a cooperative work environment. It shows the different types of artifacts used in work groups. Then, it stresses the charact...
Knowledge Management (KM) is a complex objective, especially in the instance of extended enterprises consisting of SMEs, and critical in new product design and development (NPD). T...
Many knowledge management (KM) systems have proven unsustainable to date, exhibiting low quantities and quality of knowledge, with systems falling into disuse. In this paper, we p...
The paper develops a generic framework for analyzing knowledge management in formal decision groups and applies it to council work. Requirements are deduced for a sociotechnical s...
Knowledge management is not one single discipline. Rather, it an integration of numerous endeavors and fields of study. This paper provides a framework for characterizing the vari...