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One of the most influential areas of research that has emerged in the field of Information Systems in the last decade is that of Knowledge Management. This was a natural development arising from work in disciplines such as organization studies, cognitive science and informatics, which all inspired the concepts of knowledge capture and knowledge-based systems. The purpose of this paper is to map the existing research, to describe what is meant by ‘knowledge’ and the processes of ‘knowing’, as well as organizational memory, and the contexts in which they occur.
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Stenberg, M. (2006). Managing the Knowledge of the Organization. In: Zielinski, C., Duquenoy, P., Kimppa, K. (eds) The Information Society: Emerging Landscapes. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 195. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31168-8_14
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