Current Issues in Knowledge Management: 9781599049168: Library & Information Science Books

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ISBN13: 9781599049168

EISBN13: 9781599049199

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-916-8

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As global enterprise grows increasingly reliant on electronic data, processes, and procedures, studies of the management of organizational knowledge are emerging at the forefront of critical research.

Current Issues in Knowledge Management combines cutting-edge research on the cultural, technical, organizational, and human issues surrounding the creation, capture, transfer, and use of knowledge in today's organizations. Providing foremost information on topics such as organizational memory, knowledge management in enterprises, enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and transfer, and emerging technologies of knowledge management, this estimable reference offers vital research information to practitioners and scholars in a variety of settings.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Emergent knowledge management technologies
Global issues related to the capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use of knowledge management and organizational memory
Information and communication systems design
Knowledge Creation
Knowledge Management Systems
Knowledge Reuse in Organizations
Knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer
Organizational Culture Impacts on Knowledge Management
Organizational Learning
Organizational Memory

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Knowledge management is an evolving discipline that is growing and becoming pervasive in many other disciplines. This book documents how this initial research focus is changing.

– Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University, USA

Edited by Jennex, this reference textbook concentrates on knowledge management research, and how current electronic information technologies are used at both the corporate and academic levels.

– Book News Inc. (2008)

Murray E. Jennex is a Professor of Management Information Systems at San Diego State University, editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Knowledge Management, co-editor-in-chief of IGI Global book series, co-editor-in chief of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, and President of the Foundation for Knowledge Management (LLC). Dr. Jennex specializes in knowledge management, crisis response, system analysis and design, IS security, e-commerce, and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Jennex serves as the Knowledge, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Systems Track co-chair at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. He is the author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings on knowledge management, crisis response, end user computing, international information systems, organizational memory systems, ecommerce, cyber security, and software outsourcing. Dr. Jennex is a former US Navy Nuclear Power Propulsion officer and holds a B.A. in chemistry and physics from William Jewell College, an M.B.A. and an M.S. in software engineering from National University, an M.S. in telecommunications management and a Ph.D. in information systems from the Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Jennex is also a registered professional mechanical engineer in the state of California and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), and a Project Management Professional (PMP).

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