This is essentially a discovery activity with buyers and suppliers searching
for a match of their requirements through infomediaries. This discovery process is
influenced by historical information including the past experiences of other buyers??™
reliability and trustworthiness of the supplier. The infomediary business model can
provide valuable information to this decision process through its role as the repository
of experiential knowledge of transactional histories for both buyers and suppliers.
This information can be used to develop knowledge that informs discovery of buyers
and suppliers for subsequent transactions. A realization of the need for greater
collaboration among trading partners is fueling the growth of KM to help identify
integrative and interrelated elements to enable collaborations.
Semant c Knowledge Transparency n E-Bus ness Processes
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Knowledge.Management
KM can be defined as ???a process that helps organizations find, select, organize,
disseminate, and transfer important information and expertise necessary for activities
such as problem solving, dynamic learning, strategic planning, and decision
making??? (Gupta, Iyer, & Aronson, 2000, p.
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