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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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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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Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice

Kimble, Chris; Barlow, Alexis; Li, Feng - EconWPA - 2005

some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of trust and social bonding … to the functioning of such teams. It reports on the use of a 'Community of Practice' in a virtual team and argues that … we live and the electronic world of virtual team working. …

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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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Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - EconWPA - 2005

Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong...

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Transition in FSU and sub-Saharan countries: The role of institutions

Laurila, Juhani - EconWPA - 2002

This study compares transition processes in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union (FSU) and sub-Saharan Africa. By widening the scope from most- to least-developed transition economies, the study establishes the importance of a strong state with evolved institutional...

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Uncertainty, Trade, and Capital Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cuddington, John T.; Liang, Hong; Lu, Shihua - EconWPA - 1996

In most African economies, both agricultural production and the terms- of-trade are highly uncertain. This paper re-examines the implications of such uncertainty for the optimal mix of production and trade under alternative assumptions about international capital flows. The ultimate objective is...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Shattering the Myth of Costless Price Changes: Emerging Perspectives on Dynamic Pricing

Bergen, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Dutta, Shantanu; Levy, Daniel; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we argue that pricing is all about price changes, and that the costs of price changes are often simultaneously subtle and substantial. We discuss a framework to deal with the dynamics of changing prices. This framework incorporates customer interpretations of price changes, an...

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