Knowledge is considered a source of
competitive advantage (Drucker, 1992; Simon, 1992) and it has emerged as the most
strategically significant resource of the firm (Grant, 1996). Knowledge sharing in
the context of supply chain has been recognized to enhance competitive advantage
of the supply chain as a whole (Holland, 1995). We posit that in order to achieve
such advantages knowledge transparency must exist. We define semantic knowledge
transparency as the dynamic on-demand and seamless flow of relevant and unambiguous,
machine-interpretable knowledge resources within organizations and across
inter-organizational systems of business partners engaged in collaborative processes.
Current systems integration models suffer from a lack of knowledge transparency
(Singh, Iyer, & Salam, 2005). Integrating knowledge resources across collaborating
organizations requires knowledge integration for global, inter-organizational, access
to knowledge resources. A process view of semantic knowledge integration incorpo-
Semant c Knowledge Transparency n E-Bus ness Processes
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