Expert systems: a question of liability?
MIS Quarterly
Shared minds: the new technologies of collaboration
Shared minds: the new technologies of collaboration
On generalizing the concept of hypertext
MIS Quarterly
EPRINET: leveraging knowledge in the electric utility industry
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
The analysis and design of embedded knowledge-based systems using box structure methods
Journal of Management Information Systems
AEI: a knowledge-based approach to integrated office systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
A method to identify candidates for knowledge acquisition
Journal of Management Information Systems
Creating and sustaining a global community of scholars
MIS Quarterly
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
European Journal of Information Systems
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Post-Capitalist Society
Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a Pluralist Methodology
Information Systems Research
DKAS: a distributed knowledge acquisition system in a DSS
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Research in integrating learning capabilities into information systems
MOTC: an interactive aid for multidimensional hypothesis generation
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Data mining
Development scenarios for organizational memory information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Data mining
The design, development, and validation of a knowledge-based organizational learning support system
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
Facilitating Interorganizational Learning with Information Technology
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Leveraging Tacit Organizational Knowledge
Journal of Management Information Systems
An Experiment to Assess the Performance of a Redesign Knowledge System
Journal of Management Information Systems
Workflow-Centric Information Distribution Through E-Mail
Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge management through the development of information schema
Information and Management
A framework for evaluating economics of knowledge management systems
Information and Management
Integrating option model and knowledge management performance measures: an empirical study
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge management performance evaluation: a decade review from 1995 to 2004
Journal of Information Science
A Multidimensional Commitment Model of Volitional Systems Adoption and Usage Behavior
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Delphi study of knowledge management systems: Scope and requirements
Information and Management
Information and Management
A paradigmatic and methodological examination of knowledge management research: 2000 to 2004
Decision Support Systems
The quality of evidence in knowledge management research: practitioner versus scholarly literature
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge management in mobile environment
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Editors' introduction special issue on multilingual knowledge management
Decision Support Systems
The IT professional and knowledge management: researching the Irish perspective
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Information and Software Technology
Predicting knowledge sharing practices through intention: A test of competing models
Computers in Human Behavior
Towards an evaluation framework for knowledge management systems
Information Technology and Management
The role of organizational knowledge management in successful ERP implementation projects
Knowledge-Based Systems
Team Knowledge and Coordination in Geographically Distributed Software Development
Journal of Management Information Systems
Postimplementation Knowledge Transfers to Users and Information Technology Professionals
Journal of Management Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
A design methodology for form-based knowledge reuse and representation
Information and Management
Trans-Situated Learning: Supporting a Network of Practice with an Information Infrastructure
Information Systems Research
Networkcentric healthcare and bioinformatics: Unified operations within three domains of knowledge
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Review: The paradoxes of knowledge management: An eastern philosophical perspective
Information and Organization
A theoretical framework of component-based software development phases
ACM SIGMIS Database
Advanced Engineering Informatics
KSEM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
The use of research methodologies in the knowledge management literature
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Measurement practices for knowledge management: an option perspective
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A unifying ontology modeling for knowledge management
KES'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part I
Bridging Artifacts and Actors: Expertise Sharing in Organizational Ecosystems
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The research core of the knowledge management literature
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Improving the problem management process from knowledge management perspective
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Research Portals: Status Quo and Improvement Perspectives
International Journal of Knowledge Management
Information Resources Management Journal
Opportunities for knowledge management tools in clinical genetic services
HIKM '11 Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management - Volume 120
International Journal of Web Portals
Determinants of knowledge management with information technology support impact on firm performance
Information Technology and Management
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In information systems, most research on knowledge management assumes that knowledge has positive implications for organizations. However, knowledge is a double-edged sword: while too little might result in expensive mistakes, too much might result in unwanted accountability. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the lack of attention paid to the unintended consequences of managing organizational knowledge and thereby to broaden the scope of IS-based knowledge management research. To this end, this paper analyzes the IS literature on knowledge management. Using a framework developed by Deetz (1996), research articles published between 1990 and 2000 in six IS journals are classified into one of four scientific discourses. These discourses are the normative, the interpretive, the critical, and the dialogic. For each of these discourses, we identify the research focus, the metaphors of knowledge, the theoretical foundations, and the implications apparent in the articles representing it. The metaphors of knowledge that emerge from this analysis are knowledge as object, asset, mind, commodity, and discipline. Furthermore, we present a paper that is exemplary of each discourse. Our objective with this analysis is to raise IS researchers' awareness of the potential and the implications of the different discourses in the study of knowledge and knowledge management.