Title: Exploring the situated context of knowledge management in e-government development

Authors: Haiyan Huang, Benjamin Yeo, Eileen M. Trauth

Addresses: College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA. ' College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA. ' College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802, USA

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.

Keywords: knowledge management; KM; situated culture; e-government; electronic government; knowledge economy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2006.009735

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2006 Vol.1 No.2, pp.148 - 160

Published online: 08 May 2006 *

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