Cuel, Roberta and Bonifacio, Matteo and Grossele, Mirko (2003) Knowledge Nodes: the reification of organizational communities. A case study. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)
Abstract
In our work a new approach, the Distributed Knowledge Management (DKM) approach, is used and organizations are seen as constellations of communities, which \own" local knowledge and exchange it through meaning negotiation coordination processes. In order to reify communities within a DKM system, the concept of Knowledge Node (KN) is used and then applied in a case study: a complex Italian national firm, the Impresa Pizzarotti & C. S.p.A. All communities of practices are un-veiled and rei ed as KNs within a high level architecture of a DKM system. In this paper it is argued that, even if knowledge has to be organized and made useful to the whole organization, there are types of knowledge that must be managed in an autonomous way, and the DKM approach is a good system which to deal with coordination/negotiation processes.
| Item Type: | Departmental Technical Report |
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| Department or Research center: | Information Engineering and Computer Science |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Distributed Knowledge Management, Organizational Units, Communi- ties, Knowledge Nodes, Case Study |
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| Additional Information: | To be published in J.UCS conference proceedings of the I-Know '03 Conference |
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| Report Number: | DIT-03-031 |
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| Repository staff approval on: | 06 Jun 2003 |
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