„The 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management: Projects, Systems and Technologies”
The papers reunited in the present volume have been submitted to the KM-10: The 10th International Conference “Knowledge Management – Project, Systems and Technologies”, Bucharest, Romania, 23-24 November 2017, hosted in Bucharest by “Carol I” National Defense University.
Throughout the last decades, a wide variety of organizational practices have been proposed to support the acquisition, storage, retrieval, application, generation, and review of the knowledge assets of an organization in a controlled way; despite this, it is often unclear how these practices relate to one another in their contribution to organizational performance.
In the information era, rather than physical assets or resources, knowledge is the key to competitiveness. What is new about attitudes to knowledge today is the recognition of the need to master, manage and use it like any other asset. This raises issues not only of appropriate processes and systems, but also of how to account for knowledge in the balance sheet.
The management literature of these last few years suggests a variety of practices meant to support the creation, storage and transfer of information and knowledge. Knowledge Management (KM) is a relatively new subject matter, being integrated in the curricula of some North-American universities and debated in a few dedicated journals starting with 1995.
As a new scientific area, there are at present quite many schools of thought referring to Knowledge Management, which therefore accounts for the difficulty or even impossibility to set the conceptual framework of this domain, starting from a unanimously accepted definition for it. As a consequence, the approach to the matter differs with each school or even author.
KM can be regarded from the following perspectives:
•The techno centric perspective, stressing technologies, especially those contributing to knowledge enlargement and sharing;
•The organizational perspective, seeking to answer questions such as: How should the enterprise is designed to facilitate the knowledge processes inside it? Or, which organizations work best and based on what processes?
•The ecological perspective, regarding the human interactions, the identity, knowledge and environment factors as a complex adjustment system.
In addition to the above, as the topic is becoming more consistent and gaining ground, more and more academic debates are taking place in the epistemological area, emerging both at the theoretical and practical level of Knowledge Management. Outstanding standardization institutions in the United Kingdom and Australia produced reference documents in a common attempt to outline the conceptual framework and scope of the subject, but so far all of them have been only slightly accepted or insufficiently grasped and adopted.
The papers gathered in this volume are all meant to facilitate communication between international multidisciplinary teams. This year’s Knowledge Management Conference itself provides – as its organizing committee has stated – a forum for discussion of topics related to the development of Knowledge Management and related subject matters.
The mission of the International Conferences on Knowledge Management is to facilitate communication between international multidisciplinary teams. The Conference provides a forum for the discussion of topics related to the development of knowledge management and
related disciplines.
The main areas of interest proposed for the submission of the papers cover the following sections:
• Knowledge, Learning and Cognitive Systems
• K-Organizations
• KM Projects
Finally, we would like to thank to all participants who shared their expertise with colleagues during the conference. We also hope that the papers included in this volume will give new ideas to the readers in their quest for solving various problems.
The publisher is honored to inform the authors and readers that the previous Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management: Projects, Systems and Technologies are indexed in the BDI – RePEc – Research Papers in Economics, IDEAS (http://ideas.repec. org), EconPapers (http://econpapers.repec.org) and Economists Online.
The conference would not have been possible without the joint effort of the organizing committee (Security and Defense Faculty / “Carol I” National Defense University, the Academy of Economic Studies and the Project Management Romania Association) and the evaluating board, to whom we are deeply grateful.
Professor Constanţa BODEA, PhD, Professor Toma PLEŞANU, PhD, Professor Daniel GHIBA, PhD, Chairs of KM-10, 2017
“Carol I” National Defense University, Romania
ISSN 2069 – 1920
