Conference on Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge in Organizations, Carnegie Mellon University, September 7 - 9, 2001

在过去的十年中，知识管理已经成为学术界和实践者都非常感兴趣的主题。随着来自广泛组织的经理和行政人员认识到创造、保留和转移知识对公司生存和竞争优势的重要性，关于这一主题的书籍出版物急剧增加。学术期刊也发表了更多来自不同研究传统的学者关于知识管理的文章。探究领域涵盖分析层次（群体、组织、网络、人口）、感兴趣的实质性主题（如技术转让、创新和创造力）和知识传统（如组织行为和理论、战略管理、经济学、心理学和社会学）。因此，我们现在对组织中的知识管理有了各种各样的发现。由于研究往往集中在重点探究领域内，因此很少考虑一个领域的发展与另一个领域的发展之间的关系。因此，调查领域之间存在着重要的紧张关系，跨领域利用见解的机会仍未得到利用。知识管理的研究正处于这样一个阶段，未来的研究将从调查特定领域的现有研究和整合这些领域的发现中获益良多。为此，将于2001年9月7日至9日在卡耐基梅隆大学举办为期两天的会议，主题是“在组织中创造、保留和转移知识”。会议的目标是：(1)综合组织知识管理的已知知识，(2)找出我们对组织知识管理的理解中的差距和不一致之处，(3)确定组织知识管理的未来研究方向，(4)传播关于知识创造、保留和转移的研究成果。这次会议正与《管理科学》的一期特刊协调进行。在第一轮评审后，最有希望的手稿的作者将被邀请在卡内基梅隆会议上展示他们的工作。会议的最佳论文将发表在《管理科学》特刊上。会议将在综合现有知识和开发有关组织中知识的创造、保留和转移的新知识方面发挥关键作用。会议将向撰稿人提供有关其工作的反馈，从而提高该领域的研究质量。会议上的互动也将促进来自不同研究领域的研究人员之间的联系，从而刺激未来对知识管理的研究。

Over the past decade knowledge management has become a subject of keen interest among academics and practitioners alike. Book publications on the topic have increased dramatically as managers and executives from a broad spectrum of organizations have recognized the importance of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge for firm survival and competitive advantage. Academic journals have also published more on knowledge management by scholars from a variety of research traditions. Areas of inquiry span levels of analysis (group, organization, network, population), substantive topics of interest (e.g., technology transfer, innovation and creativity), and intellectual traditions (e.g., organizational behavior and theory, strategic management, economics, psychology, and sociology). As a result, we now have an eclectic mix of findings on knowledge management in organizations. Because research has tended to accumulate within focused areas of inquiry, there has been relatively little consideration for how developments in one area relate to another. Consequently, important tensions exist between areas of inquiry and opportunities to leverage insights across areas remain unexploited. The study of knowledge management is at a point where future research stands to benefit greatly from surveying existing research in particular areas and from integrating findings across those areas. To this end, a two-day conference on "Creating, Retaining, and Transferring Knowledge in Organizations" will be organized at Carnegie Mellon University on September 7-9, 2001. The goals of the conference are to: (1) synthesize what is known about managing knowledge in organizations, (2) identify gaps and inconsistencies in our understanding of the management of organizational knowledge, (3) define future research directions on the management of knowledge in organizations, and (4) disseminate research findings about knowledge creation, retention, and transfer. The conference is being coordinated with a special issue of Management Science. Authors of the most promising manuscripts after the first round of reviews will be invited to present their work at the Carnegie Mellon Conference. The best papers from the conference will be published in the Management Science special issue. The conference will play a critical role in synthesizing existing knowledge and developing new knowledge about the creation, retention, and transfer of knowledge in organizations. The conference will provide contributors with feedback about their work and thereby improve the quality of research in the area. The interactions at the conference will also facilitate connections among researchers from different areas of inquiry and thereby stimulate future research on knowledge management.