Computer-Based Information Systems and Knowledge Management:Contrasting the Objectivist and Subjectivist Perspectives

This paper examines the role that computer-based information systems can play in the communication and sharing of knowledge. It considers the actual and potential symbiosis of such systems with the concepts of knowledge management within an organizational environment. It identifies the objectivist philosophy of knowledge, which typically underpins the literature advocating computer-based knowledge management, and questions the foundational...