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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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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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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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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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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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Comparison between minimum purchase, quantity flexibility contracts and spot procurement in a supply chain

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

When, in a supply chain, a supplier and a buyer have the choice of transaction form to do business, the equilibrium transaction form which emerges is much more constrained than previously envisaged in literature. In this paper, two forms of long-term supply contracts and procurement in the spot...

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Transport contract optimization under information asymmetry: an example

Brusset, Xavier; Temme, Nico - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper shows why information asymmetry and bivariate stochastic demand and spot price induce different behaviours and economic inefficiency in a carrier – shipper relationship. An example is offered of a single period, single echelon, shipper-carrier transport model where demand...

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How information influences the cost of transport in a supply chain, a monte carlo simulation

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper studies the impact of information sharing and contractual instruments on a shipper and her transport suppliers through a monte carlo simulation. After reviewing the literature, we propose a model to measure the benefits in terms of expected transport cost and variance of this...

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The impact of coordination and information on transport procurement

Brusset, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Transport cost is second in importance after production cost in industry. It is the purpose of the present paper to study the impact of information sharing and contractual instruments between a supply chain and its transport suppliers. After reviewing the literature, we propose a model to...

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