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The Minitrack is concerned with an examination of this darker side of knowledge management. Papers are solicited which look at the ethical issues of raised by the practices of knowledge management, applications of KM in fields such as information warfare, and papers which provide a broader, more historically informed, definition of knowledge and knowledge management than those coming from much of the KM literature.

Frank Land (Primary Contact)

Stowford Barton

Harford

Ivybridge

Devon

PL21 0JD

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7955 7385 (Department)

Fax:+44 (0) 20 7955 7385

f.land@lse.ac.uk

Melissa Nolas

Institute of Social Psychology
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7402
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7565

S.nolas@lse.ac.uk

Urooj Amjad

London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 7712
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7565

Urooj.Amjad@soas.ac.uk

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Knowledge Flows: Knowledge Transfer, Sharing and Exchange in Organizations

Knowledge flows occur between individuals, among groups of individuals, and between organizations. This minitrack focuses on examining the nature and role of knowledge flows (e.g., knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing) among entities.

Potential topics that this session will address are:

Characterizing the nature of knowledge flows.
Design of information and communication systems that facilitate knowledge transfer and sharing.
Technical challenges and solutions in the development and implementation of systems that facilitate knowledge flows.
Managerial and organizational challenges and solutions in institutionalization and implementation of processes and activities that facilitate knowledge flows.
Intra- and inter-organizational processes for effective leverage of knowledge through knowledge transfer and sharing.
Enablers and inhibitors of knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer behaviors.
Effects of national, professional, and organizational cultures on knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing.
Knowledge transfer and sharing behaviours within emergent organizational forms such as virtual communities.
Role of information and communication technologies in managing knowledge flows.
Knowledge reuse in organizations.
Organizational and economic incentive structures for knowledge sharing and use.
Knowledge acquisition and transfer processes
Knowledge transfer enablers
Organizational culture affects on knowledge transfer

K. D. Joshi (Primary Contact)

Department of Information Systems

Todd 240B

Washington State University

Pullman, WA – 99164

Phone: 509-335-5722

Fax: 509-335-8541

joshi@wsu.edu

Mark E. Nissen
Naval Postgraduate School
555 Dyer Road, Code GB/Ni

Monterey, CA 93943-5000
Phone: 831-656-3570

DSN: 756-3570

Fax: 831-656-3407
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~menissen/

MNissen@nps.edu

Saonee Sarker
Department of Information Systems
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-4729
Phone: 509-335-1183
Fax: 509-335-1183
ssarker@wsu.edu

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Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Implementation and other Issues

During the past twelve years, HICSS has evolved into a key international forum for knowledge management, organizational learning and organizational memory researchers and practitioners. This minitrack continues this trend by encouraging paper submissions from researchers and practitioners exploring implementation aspects of KM/OM systems. These include case studies, measuring the effectiveness and/or success of implemented systems, critical issues, strategy concerns, and lessons learned.

Possible Paper Topics:

Case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory systems
Effectiveness of knowledge management/organizational memory systems
Other issues affecting the design, construction, implementation, and use of knowledge management /organizational memory systems
Knowledge management/organization/organizational memory systems for small and medium enterprises
Methodologies and processes for developing Knowledge Management and/or Organizational Memory Systems
Global issues in knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning
Knowledge management strategy
Organizational effectiveness due to knowledge management/organizational memory/organizational learning and knowledge and organizational memory use
Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning metrics

http://gcc.upb.de/HICSS

Murray Jennex (Primary Contact)

Information and Decision Science

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA 92182

Phone: 760-966-0548

Fax: 760-722-2668

mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu

Murphjen@aol.com

Stefan Smolnik

Business Computing 2 - Information Management & Office Systems

Faculty of Business Administration, Business Computing & Economics

University of Paderborn

Warburger Str. 100

D-33098 Paderborn, Germany

Phone: +49-5251-603375

Fax: +49-5251-603399

Web: http://gcc.upb.de/StefanSmolnik

Stefan.Smolnik@notes.upb.de

Susan Gasson
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-2875
Phone: 215-895-6398
Fax: 215-895-2494
sgasson@cis.drexel.edu

Knowledge Mobilization and Enterprise Coordination Capability

In his keynote address at HICSS 38, Peter G.W. Keen challenged researchers to move beyond historical interpretations of knowledge management to address ‘knowledge mobilization.’ The purpose of this minitrack is to assess this vision, investigate its tenets, evaluate relevant technical approaches to architecture, infrastructure, meta-modeling and mobile computing, and to postulate theoretical bases for addressing the knowledge paradox and the concomitant need for enterprise coordination capability.

Possible topics include:

Theories addressing knowledge mobilization and the ‘knowledge paradox’
Categorizations of organizational knowledge with implications to knowledge mobilization strategies
Applications of mobile computing technologies to knowledge mobilization
Enterprise coordination capability assessment
Enterprise model management and coordination capability
Architectural solutions for ‘demand-centered’ knowledge mobilization
Interface standardization assessment
Meta-modeling, semantic web and knowledge mobilization

Michael Goul (Primary Contact)

P.O. Box 874606

Department of Information Systems

W. P. Carey School of Business

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-4606

Phone: 480-965-5482

Fax: 480-965-8392

Michael.Goul@asu.edu

Haluk Demirkan

P.O. Box 874606

Department of Information Systems

W. P. Carey School of Business

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-4606

Phone: 480-365-9067

Fax: 480-965-8392

Haluk.Demirkan@asu.edu

Andy Philippakis

P.O. Box 874606

Department of Information Systems

W. P. Carey School of Business

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-4606

Phone: 480-965-5134

Fax: 480-965-8392

philippakis@asu.edu

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Knowledge Networks and Distributed Knowledge Systems

Organizations are faced with developing communication strategies that maintain centralized and fully accessible knowledge bases while at the same time trying to compete in a highly decentralized market place. Numerous networked devices serve the purpose of connecting human knowledge capital. This minitrack will identify and examine mechanisms for knowledge workers to access knowledge capital inherent in knowledge networks by examining the practices of knowledge workers and the networks in which they work.

Possible paper topics include:

Network Structure for the Diffusion of Knowledge
Bayesian networks
Adaptive Learning networks
Framework Knowledge Networks and Knowledge Network Architectures
Exploring the impacts of the use of knowledge and organizational memory on the effectiveness of organizations or processes
Global issues for the design, construction, implementation, and use of knowledge networks and distributed knowledge systems
Integrating organizational knowledge within the organization and across the organization’s value chain
Developing processes and systems for transferring, storing, integrating, and managing knowledge
Methodologies, tools, processes, technologies for developing knowledge networks and distributed knowledge systems
Developing processes and systems for facilitating organizational learning
Describing case studies of knowledge networks and distributed knowledge systems

Dave Croasdell (Primary Contact)

Accounting and Information Systems

University of Nevada, Reno

Reno, NV 89557

USA

Phone: 775-784-6902

Fax: 775-784-8044

davec@unr.edu

Richard Orwig

Accounting and Information Systems

Sigmund Weis School of Business

Susquehanna University

Selinsgrove, PA 17870

Phone : 570-372-4380

orwig@susqu.edu

Caroline Haythornthwaite
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Phone: 217-244-7453
Fax: 217-244-3302
haythorn@uiuc.edu

Philosophical Foundations of KM research

This minitrack is founded on the belief that we have hardly begun to tap the potential of philosophy and epistemology in our work, especially in developing a more robust foundation for what we do. The objective is to explore how philosophy has been used as a reference discipline to knowledge management research, and to foster the development of a "philosophy of knowledge management technology. Understanding and managing the ethical implications of KM-related technology seems to be a vital issue, and accordingly, it seems appropriate that we turn to philosophy as away of understanding these issues in the context of knowledge management systems.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Ethical, Epistemological and Ethnographic issues in KM
Philosophy of KM “science”
KM and philosophy and research methodologies
Roles that philosophy might play in relation to KM issues
A philosophy of KM Technology
Phenomenology and KM Technology
General Systems Theory applied to KM issues
Churchman's Inquiring Systems and KM issues
KM Technology and its impact on society
Philosophy as Practical KM Research
Philosophical case studies
Philosophy and the Internet; Philosophy and Knowledge Management

Jim Courtney (Primary Contact)
MIS Department

College of Business Administration

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida 32816-1400

Phone: 407-823-4138

Fax: 407-823-2389

http://www.bus.ucf.edu/jcourtney/

jcourtney@bus.ucf.edu

Dianne Hall
Department of Management
401 Lowder Business Building
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5241
Phone: 334-844-6443 (office)
Fax: 334-844-5159

halldia@auburn.edu

Jim Sheffield
Information Systems and Operations Management

Old Choral Hall
7, Symonds Street
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand

Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 87157

j.sheffield@auckland.ac.nz

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Information and Decision Science

San Diego State University

FAX : (760) 722-2668

Accounting and Information Systems

University of Nevada, Reno

FAX : (775)784-8044

Accounting and Information Systems

University of Nevada, Reno

Fax: 775-784-8044

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