Search Results - subject:"Knowledge Workers"

Domain analysis in information science : Eleven approaches – traditional as well as innovative

Hjørland, Birger - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 4, pp. 422-462

What kind of knowledge is needed by information specialists working in a specific subject field like medicine, sociology or music? What approaches have been used in information science to produce kinds of domain‐specific knowledge? This article presents 11 approaches to domain analysis....

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Co‐term network analysis as a means of describing the information landscapes of knowledge communities across sectors

Jacobs, Neil - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 5, pp. 548-562

Many and varied information sources are used by researchers and managers across sectors relevant to public policy development. When aggregated, these sources can be described in terms of sector‐specific information landscapes. This paper describes results from a survey that investigated such...

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Evidence for the existence of geographic trends in university Web site interlinking

Thelwall, Mike - In: Journal of Documentation 58 (2002) 5, pp. 563-574

The Web is an important medium for scholarly communication of various types, perhaps eventually to replace entirely some traditional mechanisms such as print journals. Yet the Web analogy of citations, hyperlinks, are much more varied in use and existing citation techniques are difficult to...

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Intellectual capital : Managerial perceptions of organisational knowledge resources

Valentine St Leon, Mark - In: Journal of Intellectual Capital 3 (2002) 2, pp. 149-166

States that if organisations are to more effectively identify, measure and manage their intellectual capital, the responsibilities for initiating and executing these tasks will fall upon the managers of organisations. Addresses the question “To what extent does organisational type and...

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An inquiry into the motivations of knowledge workers in the Japanese financial industry

Kubo, Izumi; Saka, Ayse - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 3, pp. 262-271

effective management of knowledge workers as crucial in sustaining an organisation’s competitive advantage. The paper views the …The knowledge base of companies is increasingly seen as underlying a firm’s performance, and the role of knowledge … workers within this framework is seen as strongly associated with a firm’s competitive performance. This perspective views the …

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Knowledge tasks and teleworking: a taxonomy model of feasibility adoption

Pérez Pérez, Manuela; Martínez Sánchez, Angel; … - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 3, pp. 272-284

taxonomy is used together with the distribution of productive work time of knowledge workers to ellaborate groups of knowledge …

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An analysis of co‐operative agreements from a knowledge‐based perspective: an integrative conceptual framework

Escribá‐Esteve, Alejandro; Anastasio Urra‐Urbieta, … - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 4, pp. 330-346

The last decade has been witness to an unprecedented growth in the number of alliances between companies. This growing importance of interfirm co‐operation, together with its inherent complexity, have generated a progressive interest in the study of this phenomenon, which has materialised in a...

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Basque Country: the knowledge cluster

Luis Arboníes, Angel; Moso, Mónica - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 4, pp. 347-355

Clusters have basically been conceptualised as a concentration of firms that prosper on the basis of their interaction. However, the classical cluster concept is developing in a more cultural perspective. The so‐called Knowledge Society and the development of information and telecommunications...

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Knowledge partnerships for a sustainable, equitable and stable society

Malone, Thomas F.; Yohe, Gary W. - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 4, pp. 368-378

Continued exponential and asymmetrical growth in both population and individual economic productivity would propel world society along a path that is environmentally unsustainable, economically inequitable, and hence socially unstable. Terrorist activity in September 2001 may be vivid evidence...

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Evolving knowledge for development: the role of knowledge management in a changing world

Castro Laszlo, Kathia; Laszlo, Alexander - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 6 (2002) 4, pp. 400-412

In today’s changing world, knowledge, and the processes to generate it and manage it, have become key factors in creating competitive business advantage. However, the challenges facing contemporary global societies, from human conflicts to environmental degradation, call for an expanded...

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