Scientific knowledge management: Proposal for a conceptual model based on processes of scientific communication

Abstract

Knowledge management has been developed in the context of enterprises and has its research and applications related to the organisational knowledge perspective. Nevertheless, there are other contexts within which knowledge management can be studied, such as the academic context, which is concerned with the scientific knowledge perspective. Whatever is the context in which knowledge management is studied, communication processes constitute a fundamental issue to be taken into account. This piece of research, therefore, aimed to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and the scholarly communication process at a conceptual level, bearing in mind the peculiarities of the scientific knowledge and the academic context. The study is particularly concerned with a theoretical construction of a conceptual model for the knowledge management in the academic context, having the scholarly communication process as its foundation.