Knowledge Management System as a Sociotechnical System

The research effort started at the 2006 Hawaii Conference on System Sciences identifies seven key areas of KM research: KM Foundations, Knowledge Transfers, KM Systems, KM Research Methods KM Success, Ethical Issues in KM, and KM Education (Jennex, 2006). In this paper, we refer to MGKME, our Model for Global Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (Grundstein & Rosenthal Sabroux, 2005; Grundstein, 2005; Grundstein, 2006). Thus considering that KM is rooted on a Sociotechnical World that constitutes the underlying fabric on which KM approaches and researches must be established, we argue that the question of Sociotechnical World must be added as another key area to the research effort initiative.ou