Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations

Amit, M. and Garcia-Perez, A. (2008) Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations. International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS), 3 (6). pp. 572-586. ISSN 1746-0972

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2008.018991

Abstract

Ever since the 1990s, different research communities have used the term 'knowledge warehousing' to refer to several types of IT-based tools. An extensive review of the literature on this topic revealed that existing approaches to knowledge warehousing may be classified into three completely different categories. None of the studies reviewed has been able to provide a compelling justification for their suitability. Given such lack of clarity, it seems that we are just experiencing a 'syntactic upgrade' of the concept of data warehousing into a new, more fashionable term. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether the human nature of knowledge would even allow such a resource to be warehoused. On the basis of advantages and limitations of existing notions of knowledge warehousing, this paper aims to provide tools required to unify existing disparate views of knowledge warehousing by focusing on aims of approaches rather than terminology.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	knowledge warehousing, knowledge sharing, data warehousing, document management, information management, decision support systems
Faculty/Department:	Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business Management ~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Bristol Business School ~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business and Management
ID Code:	12931
Deposited By:	Dr A. Mitra
Deposited On:	25 Nov 2010 09:14
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2012 15:44