Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and...

Purpose – The study's purpose was to gather scientist end‐user perceptions of their impending phased move to a new facility within a US national laboratory site. Design/methodology/approach – The researchers, a college faculty member and three undergraduate student interns, visited 59...

Global Knowledge Work is an up-to-date account of theoretical approaches and empirical research in the multi-disciplinary topic of global knowledge workers from a relational and diversity perspective. -- This informative volume includes contributions from international scholars and practitioners...

Contemporary literature posits that knowledge workers differ significantly from other employees by their structure of motives. However, there are too few empirical studies to support this idea. This paper presents results of an empirical study aimed to discover what motives are most important...

The structure and dynamics of informal communication networks are of central importance for the functionality of enterprise workflows and for performance and innovation of knowledge-centric organizations. While most executives are aware of this fact, there is a general lack of (semi-) automated,...