Knowledge formation in strategic management

Author

Carlsson, Christer

Author_Institution

Inst. for Adv. Manage. Syst. Res., Abo Akademi Univ., Finland

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

230

Abstract

It is shown that the knowledge formation taking place in strategic management processes can be adequately represented and formalised with a methodology which combines elements from systems and hyperknowledge theory. This methodology is used to build a mathematical systems model of strategic management, and to construct a management support system, which is a hybrid of an object-oriented expert system and a hyperknowledge support system. It is also shown that a systematic knowledge base can be built for strategic management and that knowledge-based systems, as management support systems, can have a significant impact on strategic management. These results are based on an implementation of a prototype of the hybrid system in 12 profit centers in two major forest industry corporations.<>

Keywords

behavioural sciences; commerce; decision support systems; expert systems; forestry; knowledge engineering; management; object-oriented programming; forest industry corporations; hyperknowledge support system; hyperknowledge theory; knowledge formation; management support system; mathematical systems model; object-oriented expert system; profit centers; strategic management processes; systematic knowledge base; systems theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323349

Filename

323349