Use of e-book as formal resource of sharing and dissemination of explicit knowledge in organizations

There are a wide range of fragmented knowledge within organizations, mainly because knowledge are within the particularity of each person who carries their knowledge according their experiences, culture and way of life. This fact leads to what might be called tacit knowledge, which is something personal and important to construct the explicit knowledge. The use of technological tools has a great importance as a way of disseminating explicit knowledge and, in this sense, this paper has the objective study the use of electronic book (e-book) as a strategic tool in order to materialization the knowledge and, consequently, its spread. The fundamental and conceptual aspects related to e-book, knowledge management, knowledge's materialization, knowledge's activist and the electronic book make part of the scenery of the object of study and part of these concepts, emerges a proposal to use the electronic book as a technological tool for knowledge dissemination. The research method used was a literature review with analysis of them on e-books in his new appearance, in the twenty-first century, resulting in a survey of potential concepts for the knowledge sharing in organizations. Quantitative analysis was performed over the theories that support the creation means for formal dissemination of knowledge through the e-books. As a result, these paper found that materialize the knowledge using e-book can be a strategic and technological tool to add value in organizations, since the user can have real time access to knowledge using both computers and cell phones, which generates competitivity and a power knowledge advantage for organizations.