The annual International Symposium onKnowledge and Systems Sciences aims topromote the exchange and interaction ofknowledge across disciplines and borders toexplore the new territories and new frontiers. Thepast 18-ye...
the MIS Research Center of the University of Minnesota for partial support;the W.P.Carey Chair at the W.P.Carey School of Business,Arizona State University,Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management,and the Shidler School of Business at theUniversity of Hawaii for the funding of some research activities related to this work
Information sharing in procurement occurs in rich and varied industry contexts in which managerial decisions are made and organizational strategy is formulated. We explore how information sharing ought to work in proc...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Numbers 60773133,70471003,and 60573074;the High Technology Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2007AA01Z165;the Foundation of Doctoral Program Research of the Ministry of Education of China under Grant No.20050108004;Key Project of Science and Technology Research of the Ministry of Education of China.
In this paper, we first introduce the concepts of knowledge closeness and knowledge distance for measuring the sameness and the difference among knowledge in an information system, respectively. The relationship betwe...