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Utilising Knowledge Resources: An Activity Perspective of Knowledge Management

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The corporate world has embraced knowledge management as a contribution to business practice and as a strategic issue. Yet there is little consensus on what knowledge management is. This paper draws on a number of case studies that address knowledge management from the perspective of a community of practice. It presents a generalised framework that is grounded in a theoretical understanding of knowledge work.

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  1. School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, 3145, Australia

    Henry Linger

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland

    Witold Abramowicz (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska (Dsc, Professor) (Dsc, Professor)

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Linger, H. (1999). Utilising Knowledge Resources: An Activity Perspective of Knowledge Management. In: Abramowicz, W., Orlowska, M.E. (eds) BIS ’99. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0875-7_8

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