Towards a cultural ontology for interorganizational knowledge processes

E.S. Abou-Zeid
2003 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the  
The explication of national-specific and organizationalspecific value systems of the firms involved in interorganizational knowledge management processes is the necessary condition for their success. The term cultural ontology is introduced to refer to such explication. Based on an inter-organizational knowledgemanipulating process model and on framework for studying the cultural influences on knowledge transfer process, the elements of cultural ontology are specified. The cultural ontology
more » ... ification document includes its domain, purpose, level of formality, scope, possible sources of knowledge, competency questions and the possible reusable ontologies. The means of such explication is the development of cultural ontology. Ontology, from the perspective of the
doi:10.1109/hicss.2003.1173645 dblp:conf/hicss/Abou-Zeid03 fatcat:so5szmp6vzddzpzxz3buourhia