Knowledge Management in Action

The International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work is going to publish a special issue on Knowledge Management in Action. The main topics for this issue are: “organizational strategies to enact and promote KM within organizations, and their relation with ICT technology, various kinds of knowledge, application domains, organizational structures, and their implication on KM, methods and approaches for the design of KM solutions, techniques and technologies for a sustainable KM (CSCW-based approaches, web-based approaches, etc.), critical success factors for KM socio-technical solutions, evaluation of KM applications in real situations, lessons-learned in each phase of the KM application life-cycle, from conception up to continuous adaptation, critical comparison of technologies, field studies and strategies in KM and any other perspective contributing to a better understanding of KM in action.

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