David Schwartz

Dr. David Schwartz’s career spans both academia and business. Since 1998 he has served as Editor of the journal Internet Research. David’s research has appeared in publications such as IEEE Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, Information Systems, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. His books include Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems, Internet-Based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory, and the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology. David’s main research interests are Knowledge Management, Ontology, Internet-based Systems, and Computer-mediated Communications. He serves as a board member of Psagot Investment House, Cham Foods Ltd. (TASE), and Copernic (NASDAQ: CNIC). David received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University; MBA from McMaster University; and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto.

Publications

Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition
David Schwartz, Dov Te'eni. © 2011. 1730 pages.
Knowledge Management has evolved into one of the most important streams of management research, affecting organizations of all types at many different levels. The Encyclopedia of...
An Aristotelian View of Knowledge for Knowledge Management
An Aristotelian View of Knowledge for Knowledge Management
David Schwartz. © 2011. 10 pages.
Defining and understanding knowledge is a rather broad and open-ended pursuit. We can narrow it considerably by stating that we are interested in defining and understanding...
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Doron Tauber, David G. Schwartz. © 2011. 11 pages.
Information systems research has clearly recognized that knowledge management systems (KMSs) have different characteristics and requirements than those of a classic management...
Organizational Attention
Organizational Attention
Eyal Yaniv, David G. Schwartz. © 2011. 10 pages.
Attention is a term commonly used in education, psychiatry, and psychology. Attention can be defined as an internal cognitive process by which one actively selects environmental...
The Semantic Integration of Information: A Business Ontology Proposal with Semantic Interoperability
The Semantic Integration of Information: A Business Ontology Proposal with Semantic Interoperability
Antonio Paredes-Moreno, Francisco J. Martínez-López, David Schwartz. © 2011. 23 pages.
Nowadays, firms need to refocus the way they manage the knowledge generated from business processes in order to optimize their Information Systems’ performance. Business...
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Doron Tauber, David G. Schwartz. © 2008. 11 pages.
Information systems research has clearly recognized that knowledge management systems (KMSs) have different characteristics and requirements than those of a classic management...
Organizational Attention
Organizational Attention
Eyal Yaniv, David G. Schwartz. © 2008. 9 pages.
Attention is a term commonly used in education, psychiatry, and psychology. Attention can be defined as an internal cognitive process by which one actively selects environmental...
Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management
Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management
David G. Schwartz. © 2008. 10 pages.
Defining and understanding knowledge is a rather broad and open-ended pursuit. We can narrow it considerably by stating that we are interested in defining and understanding...
The Emerging Discipline of Knowledge Management
The Emerging Discipline of Knowledge Management
David G. Schwartz. © 2008. 11 pages.
This article presents some of the findings from the editorial process of creating an Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. The global view of knowledge management (KM) research...
A Birds-Eye View of Knowledge Management: Creating a Disciplined Whole from Many Interdisciplinary Parts
A Birds-Eye View of Knowledge Management: Creating a Disciplined Whole from Many Interdisciplinary Parts
David G. Schwartz. © 2007. 12 pages.
Knowledge management is a fragmented field, whether of necessity or of design. In this chapter, we present and discuss data that maps out a number of the characteristics of the...
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management
David Schwartz. © 2006. 902 pages.
The Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management is the most comprehensive source of coverage related to the past, present, and emerging directions of knowledge management. The...
Strip-Mining the Web with SAIM: A System for the Analysis of Instant Messaging
Strip-Mining the Web with SAIM: A System for the Analysis of Instant Messaging
David G. Schwartz, Zac Sadan. © 2006. 20 pages.
There is no shortage of knowledge waiting to be mined on the Web. But there is a difference between mining to the depths of the Web and examining what is occurring on its...
Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management
Aristotelian View of Knowledge Management
David G. Schwartz. © 2006. 7 pages.
Defining and understanding knowledge is a rather broad and open-ended pursuit. We can narrow it considerably by stating that we are interested in defining and understanding...
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Integrating Knowledge Management with the Systems Analysis Process
Doron Tauber, David G. Schwartz. © 2006. 8 pages.
Information systems research has clearly recognized that knowledge management systems (KMSs) have different characteristics and requirements than those of a classic management...
Organizational Attention
Organizational Attention
Eyal Yaniv, David G. Schwartz. © 2006. 6 pages.
Attention is a term commonly used in education, psychiatry, and psychology. Attention can be defined as an internal cognitive process by which one actively selects environmental...
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour. Est. 2005.
The International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM) provides a forum for academics, researchers, and educators to analyze global aspects of knowledge management from...
The Emerging Discipline of Knowledge Management
The Emerging Discipline of Knowledge Management
David G. Schwartz. © 2005. 11 pages.
This article presents some of the findings from the editorial process of creating an Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management. The global view of knowledge management (KM) research...
Semantic Information Management
Semantic Information Management
David G. Schwartz, Zvi Schreiber. © 2005. 8 pages.
The need to manage enterprise data has been coming into increasingly sharp focus for some time. Years ago, data sat in silos attached to specific applications. Then came the...
Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management
Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management
David Schwartz, Terje Brasethvik, Monica Divitini. © 2000. 269 pages.
The Internet is quickly moving from a marketing tool in which businesses and organizations promote sales and awareness, to a core element of any information system architecture....
On Knowledge Management in the Internet Age
On Knowledge Management in the Internet Age
David G. Schwartz, Monica Divitini, Terje Brasethvik. © 2000. 23 pages.
Knowledge management in general, and Internet-based knowledge management in particular, is one of the foremost strategic directions being investigated and adopted by corporations...