Identity, Negotiation and Trust in a Distributed Knowledge Management Network

The problem of knowledge management in a distributed network is receiving increasing attention from both scientific and industrial organizations. Research efforts in this field are motivated by the awareness that knowledge is more and more perceived as a primary economic resource and that, in the context of organization of organizations, the augmented management complexity of its whole life cycle requires new reference models. In this paper, we build on recent research work to propose a distributed knowledge management framework that can be used in several application domains. First we discuss the role of identity, negotiation and trust in a distributed knowledge network, then we introduce a framework for the knowledge management that extends previous works towards the knowledge management in a network of organizations. Finally, we discuss a case study as a particular instance of the presented framework to handle the problem of risk management in enterprise alliance partnerships.