MITRE, KM Journal Establish "Best Paper" Award

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August 13, 2002 — The MITRE Corporation and the Journal of Knowledge Management have established an annual Best Paper Award to recognize the single archival article that made the most valuable contribution to the field of knowledge management.

The 2001 award's first winner was Josephine Chinying Lang for her article on "Managerial Concerns In Knowledge Management," which appeared in the Journal of Knowledge Management, Volume 5 Issue 1 in January 2001. Dr. Lang, an Assistant Professor in Management at Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, says, "Personally, this award encourages me to do more work in the field. I hope practitioners will be encouraged to reflect on their experience and write for the field sharing insights from that experience, and I hope academics will also strive to build better and better theory to undergird this emergent field. This award should spur such efforts which will help consolidate and advance this new discipline for management."

The award was the brainchild of MITRE KM experts Daryl Morey, Mark Maybury and Bhavani Thuraisingham. Included in the award is a $1,000 prize supported by royalties from their book, Knowledge Management: Principles and Practice, and Emerald, the publishers of the Journal of Knowledge Management. Maybury is the executive director of MITRE's Information Technology Division, and Thuraisingham is a senior principal staff in the Information Technologies Division. Morey, previously at MITRE, is a principal consultant at The Parthenon Group, a management consultancy.

"This new award is important because insofar as we have created the collection of 'the best hits' in knowledge management, the book can be used in graduate seminars, in government programs, and in research groups as a reference," said Dr. Maybury. "I think the award is a nice opportunity to give back to that community and in doing so, hopefully, we can contribute to the knowledge management process itself... there are many things we have learned, but we all need to continuously learn."

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