Call for papers
Knowledge Management conference in Asia-Pacific 2004 (KMAP 2004)

Knowledge Management in the Global Environment: the Roles of Culture, Government and Industry
in Fostering a Knowledge Society

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
December 7-8, 2004

        

        The KMAP 2004 conference program committee invites submissions of completed research papers or extended abstracts.

        Knowledge, as intellectual capital in organizations, is one of the most valuable resources in the global economy. KM research has mostly focused on knowledge and knowledge management within organizational boundaries.However, several related trends, including globalization, immigration, political and economic unification, and technological connectivity, suggest that a broader, more global perspective in KM research and practice is needed.

        Given that organizations are open systems that constantly interact with the wider environment, knowledge management must also study factors outside of traditional organizational boundaries, including industrial social networks, public policy, cultural change, international pressures, etc. Furthermore, it is now well accepted that knowing is a deeply social process and that successful KM takes into account a broader community and environment where people can interact in the discovery,
use and synthesis of knowledge.

        An understanding of contextual factors, such as national KM policies, national culture, and industry characteristics and relationships are essential for the successful implementation of KM at the fractal levels of organization, industry, nation, and world. The aim of this conference is to bring a diverse range of scholars, policy makers and managers together to bring such these factors into closer focus to stimulate new directions in knowledge management and policy research and practice.
This conference calls for papers that offer provocative, insightful, and novel ways of viewing KM from a wide variety of perspectives.

        Authors are invited to submit their original, previously unpublished papers focused on these wider themes of knowledge management. Papers may be based on research, theory, development, or practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Global institutions and KM
- National policies and KM
- Knowledge economy and society
- KM and national/ethnic culture
- Cross-cultural KM
- Virtual knowledge sharing across boundaries
- KM in multi-lingual contexts
- Government-industry-academic cooperation
- The role of industry in KM
- The role of academia in KM
- Electronic government
- Knowledge and information economics
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Creative industries
- The cultural economy
- Education and industry
- Creativity and innovation management
- Social epistemology
- Philosophy in business
- Knowledge and ethics
- Wisdom versus knowledge
- Identity and knowledge
- Knowledge management technology
- Data mining
- Knowledge and Information Retrieval
- Web-Based Technology Support

        All the accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, selected papers will be invited to publish in the special issue "cross-cultural KM" of International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management.

[Important dates]
Submission deadline: September 1st, 2004
Acceptance notification: October 1st, 2004
Camera-ready copy: November 1st, 2004
Registration: November 1st, 2004