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Wissensmanagement und Controlling: Eine Forschungsperspektive? [Engl.: Knowledge Management and Management Control Systems: A New Research Field?]

Kunz, Jennifer; Linder, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

GERMAN ABSTRACT: Wissensmanagement und Controlling werden seit Jahrzehnten parallel in der betriebswirt …

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Knowledge Management in Knowledge Intensive Service Networks: A Strategic Management Perspective

Blaich, Günther; Evanschitzky, Heiner; Kenning, Peter; … - EconWPA - 2004

Knowledge is the key to gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. Driven by a change in consumer needs towards “comprehensive service solutions”, more and more services are offered through networks. By so doing, individual firms can concentrate on their distinctive competencies and by...

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Computer Mediated Communications and Communities of Practice

Hildreth, Paul; Kimble, Chris; Wright, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

Within the Knowledge Management context, there is growing interest in computer support for group knowledge sharing and the role that Communities of Practice play in this. Communities of Practice are groups of individuals with a common purpose and who share some background, language or...

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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE HIGHER EDUCATION

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Gomes, Jorge; Mendes, Maria - EconWPA - 2002

project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project … that participants widened and deepened the required knowledge base in five distinct areas: project management, the team …

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Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?

Kimble, Chris; Hildreth, Paul - EconWPA - 2005

n the late 1990s, Knowledge Management (KM) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) seemed inseparable. CoPs appeared to offer the key to reversing the failure of some of the earlier technologically based attempts to manage knowledge. However, the original CoP concept was built around a very...

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Knowledge Management in Non-Governmental Organisations: A Partnership for the Future

Vasconcelos, José; Seixas, Paulo Castro; Lemos, Paulo Gens - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The aim is to help NGOs become true Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In order to deal with more donors (at the top) and more beneficiaries (at the bottom), NGOs...

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Knowledge Management: Are We Missing Something?

Hildreth, Paul; Wright, Peter; Kimble, Chris - EconWPA - 2005

As commercial organisations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have begun to realise that they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognised as an important resource and organisations are now taking...

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Trading Turnover and Expected Stock Returns: The Trading Frequency Hypothesis and Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Hu, Shing-yang - EconWPA - 1997

trading turnover as a measure of liquidity and the 1976-1993 Tokyo Stock Exchange data, I find that, cross-sectionally, stocks … with higher turnover tend to have a lower expected return. This evidence is consistent with predictions derived from an … Amihud-Mendelson type of transaction cost model in which the turnover measures investors’ trading frequency. The trading …

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Dismissals and Match-Specific Rents

Black, Dan A.; Loewenstein, Mark A. - EconWPA - 1996

Labor contracts that result in dismissals are quite common in the real world. The question that arises is why employers do not just offer reduced wages instead of asking workers with low realized productivity to leave. This paper argues that such behavior can be explained by workers'...

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Family Health Benefits and Worker Turnover

Black, Dan A. - EconWPA - 1996

In this paper, I examine the impact of employer-provided health benefits on job turnover. Because many employer … portability of health plans. The estimates suggest that spouse-provided benefits substantially increase the likelihood of turnover. …

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