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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Paraponaris, Claude
• Ermine, Jean-Louis
• Guittard, Claude
• Lièvre, Pascal
• Ribière, Vincent

Titel

Knowledge management in a French research community: a case study of GeCSO congress

Ist Teil von

• VINE. Very informal newsletter on library automation, 2012-08, Vol.42 (3/4), p.302-320

Ort / Verlag

Bradford: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Purpose - This paper aims to present the state of the art of a rising French research community on knowledge management, who organized during the past four years, a French speaking congress (GeCSO). Interests in knowledge management (KM) come from various disciplines: economy, social, engineering. These interests are not often linked. Within the firms, KM practices vary a lot depending on national cultures and on activity sectors. However, one can identify a potential symmetry between the diversity of practices and the partitioning of scientific approaches.Design methodology approach - In order to synthesize the different approaches in KM, the authors studied the 62 papers published in the first three conferences. To have a first representation of the diversity, they analyzed the keywords that were used: among 173 keywords used by the authors, eight keywords represent 27 per cent of the total amount.Findings - Three main dimensions which emerged from the articles are analysed: the practical dimension, the epistemological point of view, and the intention to define a theory of action.Originality value - KM is an emerging domain, especially in French culture. This paper can be seen as a first foundation of the domain, and also a manifesto to develop interdisciplinary research on this topic.