Knowledge Based Organization

The economic, political, social, cultural, technological, etc. changes the XXI-st century is facing trigger modifications at the level of the economy, society, organization and of the management of this one. Such transformations result in the appearance of new trends at the international level, and an example would be the fact that the economy, society, organization and management that are based

Purpose – Urban areas are administratively complex, and bureaucrats are often overburdened, which means they are often working at what Herbert Simon called the bounds of their rationality. Thus, responsible bureaucrats may have little genuine knowledge of issues within their briefs that impact community members. Groups concerned with such issues may emerge in the community. Given their focus, members of such groups will have issue-related local knowledge; and probably also the time and effort to share and assemble such personal knowledge into practical and informative group proposals. This paper reviews this situation and demonstrates how simple to use and freely available socio-technical tools can be applied to support knowledge based community action.
  Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a theoretical framework for community action, discusses some of the revolutionary cognitive technologies that provide tools for implementing the framework, and presents a template based on two of Google’s cloud computing applications: Google Sites and Google Docs to demonstrate how the technology can be used (see “Template for Knowledge-Based Community Organizations” - https://sites.google.com/site/organizingcommunityaction/)
  Originality/value – The theoretical framework is new, and we are unaware that such an approach towards the support of community action groups has been previously documented.
Practical implications – The generic tools demonstrated are free and may be used by anyone with an internet connection and a Web browser. They provide action and other social groups with simple yet sophisticated tools to collect, and assemble personal knowledge; and to transform it into community knowledge. Properly used, the tools can provide bureaucrats with the necessary background knowledge to make rational decisions about allocation of resources, etc. to deal with various kinds of situations. The template developed for this project demonstrates capabilities of the cloud computing tools.

Keywords – Social technology; Community knowledge management, Cloud computing; Organization theory; Bounded rationality

Publikacja recenzowana / Peer-reviewed publicationZe wstępu: Prezentowana praca ma, podobnie ja cała nauka o zarządzaniu, charakter interdyscyplinarny. W centrum refleksji znajdują się współczesne problemy w zarządzaniu organizacjami. Sukces każdej organizacji zależy od wielu czynników takich jak: zasoby ludzkie, finansowe, kapitałowe, technologiczne i informacyjne, których ilość, jakość i koszt zależy nie tylko od procesów zachodzących wewnątrz organizacji, ale również od czynników znajdujących się w jej otoczeniu. Analiza uwarunkowań wszystkich czynników może wyznaczyć ścieżkę optymalnych rozwiązań. Duże zróżnicowanie tematyczne prezentowanych artykułów w książce spowodowało wydzielenie w niej dwóch części, do których zakwalifikowano poszczególne prace. Pierwszą część pracy stanowi dziewięć artykułów odnoszących się do kultury organizacji i procesu komunikowania się. Drugą grupę artykułów stanowi sześć prac dotyczących bezpieczeństwa, przedsiębiorczości i konkurencyjności organizacji. Praca jako owoc interdyscyplinarnego wysiłku, jest przeznaczona do wykorzystania w procesie edukacji ekonomicznej, szczególnie na kierunkach studiów: Zarządzanie, Ekonomia oraz pokrewnych. Polecamy ją również menedżerom różnych podmiotów gospodarczych (firm i instytucji) w kreowaniu przewagi konkurencyjnej. Jesteśmy świadomi tego, że zakres zamieszczonych artykułów w pracy nie wyczerpuje wielu problemów zasygnalizowanych w temacie książki. Wyniki zaprezentowanych badań mogą stanowić podstawę do stawiania dalszych pytań, studiów i efektywnych rozwiązań

The utility of knowledge depends on how it is developed, refined and tested. Where knowledge concerns more than one individual, its value is increased through social processes involving cycles of tacit and explicit sharing for intersubjective criticism. Sciences and many organizations have well developed processes for managing the tacit-explicit cycling to produce what Vines and Hall call "formal knowledge". Nousala and Hall have studied the emergence of informal communities concerned to develop and refine bodies of knowledge relating to particular issues. The present paper describes one such emergent community’s use of ICT to facilitate knowledge formalization. Their most effective solution uses free Internet applications in the Google "cloud" made possible by changes to Google Docs only released in January 2010. Although involving several poorly documented "apps" and their "gadgets" the resulting architecture is surprisingly coherent, user friendly and apparently robust.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the significance of Web 2.0 and social media for organizational development and adaptation to an ever‐changing business environment and its successful managing. A model is proposed based on the concepts of innovative economy, knowledge management and social media for value creation in knowledge‐based industries.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines critical factors that influence the role of social media in organizational change and value creation in knowledge‐based industries.FindingsThe paper contributes to discussion about the increasingly important role of social media in the value added chain in knowledge‐based industries.Research limitations/implicationsSocial media are still an emerging phenomenon and further studies are required to investigate these relationships over a longer period of time.Practical implicationsThe topic is relevant for designing corporate strategies in knowledge‐based companies becoming a part of ...

To survive and flourish in a changing and unpredictable world, organizations and people must maintain strategic power over necessary resources - often in the face of competition. Knowledge contributes to that strategic power. Without vigilance to maintain its currency and accuracy, the value of knowledge depreciates as circumstances change over time. Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and Maturana and Varela's concept of autopoiesis provide a paradigmatic framework for considering the roles and importance of time in constructing knowledge and using it to maintain strategic power. Following Popper, knowledge is constructed, used and evaluated via cyclically-iterated processes. We introduce nine time-based frames of reference based in this Popperian autopoietic paradigm to explore the relationships between time and a utility-based valuation of knowledge as it is constructed and applied. We believe this framework and associated paradigmatically consistent vocabulary provid...

Knowledge-based groups or communities are complex systems that emerge, evolve and mature through stages that display specific features and capabilities of the community or group. Understanding these capabilities and features are fundamental to building sustainable economic, social and learning networks systems. Understanding emergent behaviour within and beyond organizational communities requires understanding the social or sociological aspects in relation to the explicit formal/physical structures in the organization. Looking deeper into the development of informal networks across boundaries highlights the geographic structures and scales of knowledge flows and their influence on urban communities.

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the theory of knowledge networks through applied research

Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study approach, incorporating action research through embedded practice, utilizing interdisciplinary (or rather non-disciplinary) techniques and is thus a novel approach and application.

Originality/value –This methodology translation of knowledge networks from theory into practice to yield little known or understood technical issues when working in social complex adaptive systems.

Practical implications – The outcomes of the application contributes to the understanding of how, what and why sustainable social networks develop, offering the possibility of application in the field.

Keywords – tacit knowledge networks, small medium enterprise, company structure, formal and informal knowledge networks

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is recognized as an information and knowledge-base organization. FAO's activities comprise four main areas which are closely related to various aspects of information and knowledge: capture and analyze, disseminate and share, localize and provide. The goal of developing and maintaining tools for information and knowledge management is attributed to the Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension (OEK) of FAO. One of the most important resources for covering the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture domain is the AGROVOC thesaurus, which evolved into a semantic system in order to provide ontology services. This newly reengineered system is called the “AGROVOC Concept Server Workbench (ACSW)”. This article analyzes the different knowledge productions modes for the traditional AGROVOC and the new ACSW system: mode I assimilate to the traditional AGROVOC Thesaurus management and mode II to the ACSW...

Scientific and technical knowledge of the world grows through individual processes of speculation, making and documenting knowledge claims, the social processes of circulating and testing them, and the cyclic iteration of these processes to incrementally build on what is already known. Formal publication of claims in journals has been critical to circulating and critiquing new knowledge claims. Editorial peer review supposedly justifies the costs of the publishing activities surrounding it. Yet publishing costs, largely paid by libraries, have become unsustainable. Also, the costs discourage many from publishing and limit access of others to what is published. Today’s editorial peer review results from the exponential growth and specialization of the sciences in the second half of the 20 th Century, but offers little genuine epistemic value. It may actually thwart the advancement of innovative and revolutionary research. Following Popperian evolutionary epistemology, we consider the...