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Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations

Mitra, Amit; Garcia-Perez, Alexeis

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Amit Mitra Amit.Mitra@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Strategy & Operations Management

Alexeis Garcia-Perez



Abstract

Ever since the late 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. © 2008, Inderscience Publishers.

Citation

Mitra, A., & Garcia-Perez, A. (2008). Revisiting knowledge warehousing: Theoretical foundations. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 3(6), 572-586. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2008.018991

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jun 1, 2008
Journal International Journal of Business Information Systems
Print ISSN 1746-0972
Electronic ISSN 1746-0980
Publisher Inderscience
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 6
Pages 572-586
DOI https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2008.018991
Keywords knowledge warehousing, knowledge sharing, data warehousing, document management, information management, decision support systems
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1016654
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2008.018991