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9 Knowledge-Based Enterprise Framework: A Management Control View Saulius Gudas Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Kaunas Lithuania 1. Introduction Contemporary organizations need to manage not only data, but the whole data-information- knowledge continuum; this is why the role and structure of the enterprise repository or enterprise knowledge base have to change adequately too. The concept of computerised knowledge base becomes important with the emergence of such intensively computer-based organizational forms as supply chains, virtual organizations etc. Organizations require having not only data in virtual environment (i.e. shared data bases), but also digital knowledge about those data, as well as about the data structure and semantics; knowledge about enteprise infrastructure and processes; process management up to strategic intentions (Gudas, 2009a). Knowledge management is the business activity intended to solve critical enterprise adaptability and competitiveness issues in a rapidly changing environment. The main goal of the knowledge management in enterprises is to create an organizational context for effective creation, storage, dissemination and use of enterprise knowledge, which are essential for securing enterprise competitiveness against the changing business environment and for setting the