An IT-based framework for knowledge management in networked organisations

Abstract

In order to increase the competitive advantage in the near future, which will be oriented by the Knowledge Economy, the enterprises should be aware about and make use of Information Technologies solutions well-adapted for knowledge management requirements. In fact, the future competitiveness of networked economies will be determined by their ability to make effective use of new methods and technologies that are able to deal with intangible assets, such as information and knowledge. The reason leading the enterprises to be concerned is to transform ideas into commercialised products, i.e. to recover the individual knowledge - the intellectual capital - and transform it into products and services that can be exploited by the organisation. Such assertion is specially emphasised in virtual enterprise context and provides several open questions guiding to sensible research efforts. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.