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This paper aims at analyzing the differences between two major research fields: Business intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and knowledge management are two complementary aspects as regards a unique issue, which is supporting companies’ global performance. Economic intelligence shows a major focus on explicit knowledge when as knowledge management encompasses simultaneously tacit and explicit knowledge. Both concepts emphasize the following criteria (learning practices, innovation systems, decision making and understanding) relying on similar processes. Those processes encompass various fields starting from information search to knowledge analysis and interpretation. It also covers information sharing, collaborative work and learning practices. Both concepts goals are to increase the organization absorptive capacity. This requires a necessary integration between those two concepts (Economic intelligence and knowledge management). The issue could be formulated such as: which one of those two concepts would absorb the other. Answering this question is critical as far as it may affect the deployment of those strategic functions within organizations.
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