Knowledge Management, Arts, and Humanities : Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Benefits of Collaboration

This book presents a series of studies that demonstrate the value of interactions between knowledge management with the arts and humanities. The carefully compiled chapters show, on the one hand, how traditional methods from the arts and humanities – e.g. theatrical improvisation, clay modelling, theory of aesthetics – can be used to enhance knowledge creation and evolution. On the other, the chapters discuss knowledge management models and practices such as virtual knowledge space (BA) design, social networking and knowledge sharing, data mining and knowledge discovery tools. The book also demonstrates how these practices can yield valuable benefits in terms of organizing and analyzing big arts and humanities data in a digital environment.

Meliha Handzic is Professor of management and information systems at the International Burch University, Sarajevo. Her PhD is from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Prof. Handzic’s main research interests lie in the areas of knowledge management and decision support. She has published on these topics in leading journals and books, and is the co-editor of the Springer series 'Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning'.