Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a stage model for maturity levels for police oversight agencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review covering police oversight organizations and stages of growth models. Findings – As a conceptual...

Purpose – Transferring organizational practices requires an understanding not only of what is being transferred but also of what is needed to ensure that the transfer is successful. In line with this thinking, the purpose of this study is to examine three factors that are crucial parts of this...

Purpose – Professional communities are capable of maintaining their social status and role in society on the basis of a blend of technical and formal expertise, know‐how, and an understanding of the non‐professional's demands and expectations. In architectural work, professional expertise...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of trust on the relationship between the type of information exchange (IE) and information disclosure (ID) on social networking web sites (SNWs). Design/methodology/approach – Constructs were developed for type of IE and...

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the performance of redundancy and novelty mining in the business blogosphere, which has not been studied before. Design/methodology/approach – Novelty mining techniques are implemented to single out novel information out of a massive set of text documents....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study from which a framework for the purposeful building of knowledge communities by means of social media is formulated. Design/methodology/approach – The approach first takes the form of a literature review. Based on a review of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the theoretical link between blogs and organisational learning. It aims to provide a set of practical guidelines on how to overcome the challenges of implementing an organisational blog. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review will...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a new method for blog quality assessment. The method uses the temporal sequence of link creation events between blogs as an implicit source for the collective tacit knowledge of blog authors about blog quality....