李明謙

With the advent of the age of knowledge economy, knowledge has become the most important asset of enterprises in the 21st century. Whether corporate knowledge can be accumulated and effectively employed will be the key factor for the success of an enterprise. In recent years, virtual enterprise has been viewed as one of the most promising business strategies for enterprises to meet global competition. The essence of virtual enterprise is the integration and sharing of corporate knowledge across enterprises through enterprise alliance to quickly respond to customer expectations. Therefore, the management of knowledge across enterprises is the basis for virtual enterprising. However, implementation of knowledge management in virtual enterprise is still a challenge due to lack of suitable methodology. 　　The objective of this research is to develop a knowledge management methodology to facilitate knowledge management in the environment of virtual enterprises. The objective can be obtained by (1) characterizing and modeling of virtual enterprise, (2) identifying, analyzing and modeling of the involved knowledge, (3) design of a distributed knowledge management framework for virtual enterprise, and (4) development of a knowledge management methodology for virtual enterprising. 　　The results of this research will facilitate the implementation of knowledge management in virtual enterprise and consequently help increase enterprise productivity and competitiveness.