One of the most exciting aspects of the knowledge-based view of organizations has been its transdisciplinarity: it has provided the means for integrating insights from a variety of disciplines and fields, such as information systems management, strategic management, organization theory, marketing, entrepreneurship, accounting, and strands of sociology, psychology, economics, and philosophy. This conference will host papers from scholars and leading practitioners from all the preceding fields, functions and disciplines that will address one, or combinations of, the following questions.

Questions

1. How are organizational knowledge and its management to be conceptualized and researched?
2. How is organizational knowledge used, renewed, stored, retrieved, transmitted, and shared? How is it measured?
3. What types of organizational knowledge are related to different types of "innovation systems" and "business systems"?
4. What information technology applications and systems support effective knowledge management in organizations? Similarly, what organization designs facilitate knowledge management?
5. What are the mechanisms that enable (or disable) organizational learning, with what consequences?
6. How do organizational learning and knowledge management contribute to organizational innovation and change?
7. How do organizations "remember" what they know, and how is organizational memory strengthened (or weakened), updated, and used in particular contexts?
8. How does social capital in organizations preserve knowledge, in what form, for what use?
9. What are the best strategies for managing organizational knowledge?
10. How is knowledge management related to business strategy and organizational performance?
11. What evidence is there that firms' competitive advantage stems from difficult-to-replicate knowledge assets?
12. What processes do organizations use to synthesize and acquire knowledge resources, generate new applications from those resources, and develop dynamic capabilities and value-creating strategies?

Insights

1. Distinguished researchers and management thinkers from top Business Schools, from all over the world
2. Leading practitioners from consulting firms and business organizations at the forefront of Knowledge Management

Aim

1. To share insights concerning the state-of-the-art research on Organizational Knowledge & Knowledge Management; Organizational Learning; and the New Competitive Advantage of Firms in the Knowledge Economy
2. To explore how organizations generate, share, and disseminate knowledge; learn; turn their learning into effective action; and develop distinctive knowledge-based dynamic capabilities
3. To learn from the Knowledge Management practices and strategies of leading firms world-wide
4. To examine the implications of viewing organizations as knowledge systems for Information Technology & MIS, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Operations/Production, and Corporate Strategy
5. To contribute to the discussion on the role of public policy and higher education in the knowledge economy