Posted by Yogesh Malhotra on December 31, 1997 at 23:54:45:

The notion of 'ecology' has been gaining currency in various areas of business. Some of the more recent discussions in literature have focused on issues such as business ecosystems, economy as ecosystem and information ecology (see hyperlinks for more details).

Recently, one hears of an ecology of knowledge or knowledge ecology. What is your thinking about knowledge ecology? How does it relate to many of the threads already discussed on this forum? There seem to be some relations of the knowledge ecology theme and our earlier discussions such as the discussions on social construction of knowledge, subjective versus objective views of knowledge, knowledge sharing and trust, etc.

Further elucidation of such issues toward understanding "What is Knowledge Ecology?" are welcome.

• Up Close and Personal (CIO Magazine, May 15, 1997) Book Excerpt: Information Ecology (Tom Davenport & Larry Prusak)
• Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems (James F. Moore)
• Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? Tom Sudman 11:01:04 1/08/98 (8)
  • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Yogesh Malhotra 17:58:24 1/08/98 (7)
    • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Tom Sudman 20:00:17 1/08/98 (6)
      • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Yogesh Malhotra 09:09:38 1/09/98 (3)
        • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Tom Sudman 14:47:18 1/09/98 (2)
          • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Ross Hall 14:36:08 1/15/98 (1)
            • tacit and explicit knowledge and a story of Zen Yongjian Bao 16:51:52 1/15/98 (0)
      • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Mezei 23:37:39 1/08/98 (1)
        • Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit Mike Barker 11:58:34 1/22/98 (0)
• Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? tom sudman 16:11:28 1/06/98 (10)
  • Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? George Por 11:12:00 1/11/98 (9)
    • Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? Tom Sudman 20:33:37 1/12/98 (7)
      • Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? a model Susanne Williams 06:27:41 1/14/98 (6)
        • Flow, diversity and connectedness Denham 07:32:47 1/14/98 (5)
          • Re: Flow, diversity and connectedness Susanne Williams 08:42:52 1/14/98 (4)
            • Life and water Tom Sudman 10:59:13 1/14/98 (3)
              • Life and water & CoPs Susanne Williams 20:51:54 1/20/98 (2)
                • Re: Life and water & CoPs Mezei 14:43:52 1/24/98 (0)
                • Re: Life and water & CoPs Tom Sudman 15:46:13 1/22/98 (0)
    • Correcting the URL George Por 11:20:03 1/11/98 (0)
• Exploring KE Denham 13:45:16 1/06/98 (1)
  • When KE is mising Denham 14:02:13 1/06/98 (0)
• KE x2 Denham 20:37:31 1/01/98 (3)
  • Re: KE x2 Mike Barker 08:17:01 1/04/98 (2)
    • Re: KE x2 Mike Barker 10:27:34 1/05/98 (1)
      • Re: KE x2 Mezei 15:55:52 1/05/98 (0)
• Knowledge Ecology Denham 01:03:04 1/01/98 (7)
  • Re: Knowledge Ecology & Knowledge Management Yogesh Malhotra 10:07:01 1/01/98 (6)
    • Re: Knowledge Ecology & Knowledge Management Mezei 10:52:12 1/02/98 (5)
      • Re: Managing Systems that Can Self-Manage Themselves Yogesh Malhotra 18:15:41 1/08/98 (4)
        • Re: Managing Systems that Can Self-Manage Themselves christine cabaņesas 22:31:19 7/10/98 (0)
        • Re: Managing Systems that Can Self-Manage Themselves christine cabaņesas 22:30:31 7/10/98 (1)
          • Re: Managing Systems that Can Self-Manage Themselves Yogesh Malhotra 01:49:48 7/11/98 (0)
        • Re: Managing Systems that Can Self-Manage Themselves Mezei 23:26:32 1/08/98 (0)

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