OuYang, Y: Knowledge Management Systems Use and Performance

With the increasing use of knowledge management technologies for collaborative work, organizations must recognize how to evaluate individual performance. User evaluations of information systems are frequently used as measures of management information system (MIS) success, since it is extremely difficult to get objective measures of system performance. This book is aimed at clarifying certain organizational factors and information technology how affecting knowledge management adoption and explaining how organizations can manage knowledge with system. On another hand, the purpose of this book has to be broad enough to cover the interesting KM concepts, frames, theories and example of KM. The content is presented with an empirical example for enhancing academic and practical implications. Therefore, this book was complemented by a knowledge management study as base. This book also takes an example about the special characteristics of the knowledge management system (KMS) and task into a research model and extends the theory of task technology fit with concepts from Fit- Appropriation Model by investigating the task and related KMS characteristics.