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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076861
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134487
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408132
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412885
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NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE IN PORTUGUESE HIGHER EDUCATION
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Gomes, Jorge; Mendes, Maria - EconWPA - 2002
This chapter uses key concepts in the knowledge management literature to analyse the procedures and practices used by a project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project completion. This project allowed a long...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118771
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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models
Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004
This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076604
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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION
Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000
are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076906
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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077089