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Sharing and Protecting Knowledge: New Considerations for Digital Environments

Sharing and Protecting Knowledge: New Considerations for Digital Environments

G. Scott Erickson, Helen N. Rothberg
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781599048161|ISBN10: 1599048167|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616927394|EISBN13: 9781599048185
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-816-1.ch016
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Erickson, G. Scott, and Helen N. Rothberg. "Sharing and Protecting Knowledge: New Considerations for Digital Environments." Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments, edited by Ettore Bolisani, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 325-339. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-816-1.ch016

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Erickson, G. S. & Rothberg, H. N. (2008). Sharing and Protecting Knowledge: New Considerations for Digital Environments. In E. Bolisani (Ed.), Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments (pp. 325-339). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-816-1.ch016

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Erickson, G. Scott, and Helen N. Rothberg. "Sharing and Protecting Knowledge: New Considerations for Digital Environments." In Building the Knowledge Society on the Internet: Sharing and Exchanging Knowledge in Networked Environments, edited by Ettore Bolisani, 325-339. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-816-1.ch016

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Abstract

As knowledge management (KM) practice increasingly moves onto the Internet, the field is changing. The Internet offers new opportunities to use knowledge assets, defines new types of knowledge assets, and readily spreads knowledge beyond the borders of the organization to collaborators and others. This potential is tempered, however, by new threats to the security of proprietary knowledge. The Internet also makes knowledge assets more vulnerable to competitive intelligence efforts. Further, both the potential and the vulnerability of knowledge on the Internet will vary according to the nature of knowledge assets (tacitness, complexity, appropriability). Those looking to practice KM must, more than ever, understand their knowledge assets and how to best employ them.

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