¹Baoshang Bank Post-Doctoral Research Center Post-Doctoral Research Center, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
²School of Information Engineering, Henan Institute of Science and Technology Xinxiang, Henan, China
³Department of computer, Hunan Institute of Engineering Xiangtan, Hunan, China

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Abstract—Fractal property of the knowledge of supply chain is confirmed, and the concept of fractal integration is presented. And the knowledge of supply chain is fractal integrated by building modularization fractal knowledge integration network independent of the organization structure. The process of fractal integration of the knowledge is divided into five stages: acquisition, transition, application, innovation and conversion, and the knowledge entropy model of the various stages is built to quantify and evaluate its integration effect. Finally, the knowledge transition of GE supply chain shows that the fractal knowledge integration can drop entropy significantly, and has higher structure order degree.

Index Terms—Fractal, knowledge, entropy, supply chain, evaluation.

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Cite: Wenfang Sun, Linfeng Bai, Xilong Qu, "Entropy Evaluation Model of Fractal Integration of the Knowledge of Supply Chain," Journal of Computers vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 819-826, 2012.