Like the wave of the future, the ‘knowledge movement’ in commercial enterprises has been inexorably gaining in momentum and pervasiveness. The knowledge-based economy, knowledge management, knowledge networks, knowledge workers, knowledge markets, knowledge commodities, knowledge assets, knowledge stocks and flows, and knowledge infrastructures are recent conceptions that all carry the ‘knowledge’ tag. Indeed, the knowledge factor is very much at the heart of how organizations are run in the 21st century. The need for mechanisms to capture the value of knowledge points to the urgency of knowledge requirements today, and is made ever more intensive by rapid advancements in information and communications technology.
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Lim, S.Y. (2007). The Value of Knowledge for Extended Enterprises. In: Choucri, N., Mistree, D., Haghseta, F., Mezher, T., Baker, W.R., Ortiz, C.I. (eds) Mapping Sustainability. Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6071-7_10
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