Abstract
Current efforts in managing knowledge have concentrated on creating, sharing and storing knowledge while business problems require the combined use of these intellectual resources to enable organizations to provide innovative and customized services. The Intellectual Bandwidth model posits that an organization's potential to create value is determined by its intellectual assets and collaboration capabilities. While this is a potentially powerful assertion, the model does not explain the relationship between knowledge management and collaboration. This paper argues that knowledge management and collaboration have common, mutually interdependent purposes and practices. It demonstrates this interdependence, by mapping collaboration processes to knowledge management activities. Following an analysis of the relationship between knowledge management activities and collaboration, this paper concludes with implications for the use of collaboration technologies for increasing the potential of an organization to create value.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 197-220 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Group Decision and Negotiation |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2006 |
Keywords
- Collaboration
- Intellectual bandwidth
- Intellectual capital
- Interdependence
- Value creation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Decision Sciences
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- General Social Sciences
- Strategy and Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation