Abstract—In recent years, much research has been devoted to the knowledge management in e-business; however, few have deployed the study of the research trend. In fact, grasping the research trend is imperative for enterprises and researchers. The study aims at analyzing the trend change of the knowledge management in e-business from 2000 to 2009. The contribution of the study includes the following two points. First, the study has found the shift of the knowledge management in e-business research from the customers and community focus to the topic of organization. Second, the study finds a new way of literature survey by using the text mining method in order to explore the trend change.
Index Terms—Knowledge management; text miming; trend; konstanz information miner (KNIME)
Shianghau Wu is with Faculty of Management and Administration Macau University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (e-mail: shwu@must.edu.mo).
Jiannjong Guo is with Tamkang University, Taiwan.
Cite: Shianghau Wu and Jiannjong Guo, "The Trend of Knowledge Management in e-Business Research (2000-2009): A Text Mining Analysis," International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 534-537, 2012.