Information & Knowledge Management: Organizational Perspective

The Revolution that occurred in the field of information science during the decade of the 90s, due to integration with the Process of Management Sciences, Information Technologies and Communication- led the transformation of concepts, methods and means, to fulfill broader functions of the institutions of Regarding information its organizational and social environment. Many terms belonging to the respective thesauri science and technologies that were integrated, entered a conceptual integration and then these were modified in its meaning, resulting in a vocabulary capable of expressing the changes.
Several of the concepts to be analyzed, were treated for years, from the perspectives of different sciences and for different purposes, approaches and entry points’ philosophical, ideological and political-views. So the search for truth among them could be endless but very useful, because when the starting points, in some cases even involve attitudes and ways of understanding the world- which are different issue and you get a consensus. Therefore, in this respect we refer to turn to A. Schaff- who, in addressing the problem of knowledge, stated: “The solution that is imposed in this sort of situation is to propose a projective definition, on the one side to respect, to the extent possible, the established meaning of the term, not excluding intuitions too common in the literature on the subject, and, secondly, to clarify, under his own responsibility, the meaning of terms used “.
In any case, it is argued that the socio-psychological approach to science and the pursuit of the business and information systems, underlies and integrates all other approaches and thus many of the definitions and analysis are those of the authors, who integrate the elements of socio-psychological formulations that are rooted in management approaches, marketers or others.
It should be clarified, too, that all concepts are closely linked and involve each other, so that the processing of any of them suggests or often enlarges and opens the study of new edges that connect you with others. Therefore, necessarily, in the first concepts, some issues are only mentioned and suggested; then resume later to expand and to be placed in relation to recent concepts. Progress is being made from the objects of study in itself and to the management of these objects in organizations and communities. Thus within these objects, it is t that this is possible to expand the concept and meaning, from the simplest to the most inclusive one.
The information is the product of the communicative act of transformation of knowledge into a form accessible to others, but this act and its result (the information) does not necessarily imply that it is fully produced in the communication process. This will be viewed later as an activity, in which the information flows, at least in forward and reverse among those given. In Determining What is needed, Which should flow in organizations and communities, it is important to do, in practice, the distinction between data and information, much less When your character is on the Theoretical level.
The sense of personal, group and organizational or community of knowledge, is also inexorable. Knowledge exists at the man’s subjective and inter-subjective group, organization or community in the form of domestic activity, and potential to regulate foreign activity with their respective environments.


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