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A Survey of Epistemology and its Implications on an Organisational Information and Knowledge Management Model

A Survey of Epistemology and its Implications on an Organisational Information and Knowledge Management Model
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Author(s): Ah-Lian Kor (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)and Graham Orange (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 30
Source title: Innovative Knowledge Management: Concepts for Organizational Creativity and Collaborative Design
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Alan Eardley (Staffordshire University, UK)and Lorna Uden (Staffordshire University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-701-0.ch006

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Abstract

This is a theoretical chapter which aims to integrate various epistemologies from the philosophical, knowledge management, cognitive science, and educational perspectives. From a survey of knowledge-related literature, this chapter collates diverse views of knowledge. This is followed by categorising as well as ascribing attributes (effability, codifiability, perceptual/conceptual, social/personal) to the different types of knowledge. The authors develop a novel Organisational Information and Knowledge Management Model which seeks to clarify the distinctions between information and knowledge by introducing novel information and knowledge conversions (information-nothing, information-information, information-knowledge, knowledge-information, knowledge-knowledge) and providing mechanisms for individual knowledge creation and information sharing (between individual-individual, individual-group, group-group) as well as Communities of Practice within an organisation.

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