Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Intellectual capital: the new wealth of organizations
Semiotics in information systems engineering
Semiotics in information systems engineering
Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction with Guidelines for Nonspecialists
Managing Knowledge with Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction with Guidelines for Nonspecialists
Information Systems Frontiers in Knowledge Management
Information Systems Frontiers
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Barriers to effective use of knowledge management systems in software engineering
Communications of the ACM
Information Systems Research
Facilitating tacit knowledge exchange
Communications of the ACM - E-services: a cornucopia of digital offerings ushers in the next Net-based evolution
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track1 - Volume 1
Optimal Investment in Knowledge Within a Firm Using a Market Mechanism
Management Science
The Wealth of Nations
Need to know-information, knowledge, and decision making
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Open knowledge management: lessons from the open source revolution
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Factors governing the consumption of explicit knowledge
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Knowledge risks in organizational networks: An exploratory framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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The following essay argues for a new approach to knowledge management - "need to know". The main tenets of this paper are centered on two issues. First we contend the use of the phrase "organizational knowledge" is inappropriate for its intended purpose and suggest a specific meaning based on semiotic theory and a resource-based view of organizations. We argue that only a small portion of what is commonly considered to be organizational knowledge actually meets the definition of being a resource that can sustain competitive advantages. Hence, this small portion is what needs to be known and should get the attention of management efforts. Second, using this prescribed frame of "organizational knowledge" we employ transaction cost economics and principal-agent theory to elaborate on the need for the control, protection, and constant monitoring of the knowledge based on a centralized management scheme. It is our contention that to preserve and ensure the effective and efficient deployment of the organizational knowledge, we need to ascribe to the ideology of many defense organizations and provide it on a need to know basis.