Knowledge integration-the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks-is increasingly important for organizations. This book offers a consistent set of ideas, methods and tools useful to interpret, analyze and act upon the processes of knowledge integration across organizational and other boundaries.

Aimed at knowledge management professionals and students in the field of knowledge management and information science, this book highlights issues in organisational cultures that can impact the implementation of knowledge management. It also provides a model to identify and manage areas in the organisation that impact knowledge management.

"This is the defining reference source for all theories, concepts, and methodologies within the KM discipline. It includes chapters on Implementing KM in Organizations; KM Systems Acceptance; KM Communication; Knowledge Representation; Knowledge Sharing; KM Success Models; Knowledge Ontology; and Operational KM, and provides libraries with the defining reference to the field"--Provided by publisher.

Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications is the primary reference source for all theories, concepts and methodologies within the knowledge management discipline. This comprehensive resource will include chapters on implementing knowledge management (KM) in organizations, KM systems acceptance, KM communication, knowledge representation, knowledge sharing, KM success models, knowledge ontology and operational KM.

Issues for Feb. 1965-Aug. 1967 include Bulletin of the Institute of Management Sciences.

This text offers a critical oveview of underlying theory in this field, as well as a range of relevant examples from a global perspective. It places knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy.

Knowledge management involves any activity related to the capture, use and sharing of knowledge by an organisation. Evidence shows that these practices are being used more and more frequently and that their impact on innovation and other aspects of corporate performance is far from negligible. Today, there is a recognition of the need to understand and to measure the activity of knowledge management so that organisations can be more efficient and governments can develop policies to promote these benefits. This book offers a synthetic view of the results of the first systematic international survey on knowledge management carried out by national statistical offices in Canada, Denmark, France and Germany.

The aim of this volume is to provide a coherent set of chapters that address major issues in resource and environmental management. The book has a North American focus with significant, but not exclusive Canadian Content. 'Integration' is the organizing theme of the volume. Integration as a concept (meaning variously integration across disciplines, across agencies, and across sectors) has been a key theme in the policy and management rhetoric of virtually every agency in North America and abroad for more than 30 years. As one of the dominant themes of the discipline, integration has been addressed both as a component and as the main focus of a variety of texts for this course. However, there is nothing on the market at the moment that is both up-to-date and North American in approach.