A Semantic Model for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Support Organizational Learning

Ala Atrash, Marie-Hélène Abel, Claude Moulin

2013

Abstract

Many efforts have been made in the last two decades to manage knowledge in organizations, especially tacit knowledge which is difficult to transfer to others as contrary to explicit knowledge. Organizational learning plays a great role in capitalizing such expertise in organizations. Large enterprises can spend high budgets on the organizational learning process which is not the case in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) where organizational learning is not supported due to the missing of standardized and codified technical supports. So there is a special need for SMEs to organize their knowledge and to facilitate the access of information. In this paper, we present the Organizational learning and its specifications in SMEs. We also present TOVE and Enterprise projects from which we defined a semantic model specially dedicated to SMEs. We explain the choice of the MEMORAe organizational memory platform to manage knowledge in SMEs.

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Atrash A., Abel M. and Moulin C. (2013). A Semantic Model for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Support Organizational Learning . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-75-4, pages 476-483. DOI: 10.5220/0004624804760483


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@conference{kmis13,
author={Ala Atrash and Marie-Hélène Abel and Claude Moulin},
title={A Semantic Model for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Support Organizational Learning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={476-483},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004624804760483},
isbn={978-989-8565-75-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)
TI - A Semantic Model for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Support Organizational Learning
SN - 978-989-8565-75-4
AU - Atrash A.
AU - Abel M.
AU - Moulin C.
PY - 2013
SP - 476
EP - 483
DO - 10.5220/0004624804760483