ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Social Exchange Theory, Knowledge Management, Explicit Knowledge
Document Summary
Contributing knowledge to electronic knowledge repositories: an empirical. This article talks about how companies can use knowledge to leverage their knowledge management systems and how the kms which can also be electronic knowledge repositories (ekrs). The study uses two types of theories (social exchange theory and the social capital theory) that try to understand knowledge contributors and their incentives or actions when sharing knowledge and how can this affect the organisational performance. Knowledge management (km): a systematic and organisationally specified process for acquiring, organising, and communicating both tacit and explicit knowledge of employees so other employees can use it and be more effective. Electronic knowledge repositories (ekrs): compromise multiple knowledge bases as we all the mechanisms for acquisition, control, and publication of the knowledge. Knowledge management systems (kms): class of information systems applied to managing organisational knowledge. Key technological component electronic knowledge repository (ekrs: network model: Emphasis on the link among people for the purpose of knowledge exchange.
