Exploring the situated context of knowledge management in e-government development. (9th May 2006)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Huang, Haiyan; Yeo, Benjamin; Trauth, Eileen M.
• Is Part Of: International journal of advanced media and communication. Volume 1:Number 2(2006)
• Page Start: 148
• Page End: 160
• Publication Date: 2006-05-09
• Subjects: knowledge management -- KM -- situated culture -- e-government -- electronic government -- knowledge economy; Multimedia communications -- Periodicals; Multimedia systems -- Periodicals; 384.38
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-4613

Abstract

In the past decade, knowledge management has played a critical and active role in business settings at the organisation level. Recently, the importance of knowledge management is becoming increasingly recognised in e-government. A key challenge of studying knowledge management in e-government is to extrapolate our current understanding in business settings to the public domain and the societal level of analysis. Drawing upon a case study of San Joaquin Valley in central California, this paper proposes that we need to take a situated approach to explore a specific societal context in order to identify and analyse the relevant influencing societal factors.