knowledge hopefully created. And innovations, ideas and individuals are central for everything that takes place. We are all … supposed to be flexible, exercising our knowledge in a setting characterized by diversity. This setting is also characterized … concepts such as the knowledge society and the practice of managing knowledge, creativity, diversity and flexibility. This …

Purpose <p> The purpose of the paper is to identify changes in different types of knowledge in a service outsourcing … relationship as knowledge is transferred from the client to the provider, which correspond to the research question that guides the … paper: ‘What are the effects on knowledge types when parts of service production are outsourced to a third party and …

organizational downsizing affects innovation. Our model contains three components: a) the organization’s stock of knowledge, b) the … individual’s creativity, and c) the knowledge creation process. These are three components which previous research on innovation …. Overall, we can expect downsizing to have a negative effect on innovation, but there are aspects of the knowledge creation …

on the acceptance of mobile services. The knowledge of and interest in mobile services of individuals using such services … interviews and secondary empirical data provide the main data. Concerning the youth’s general knowledge of and interest in mobile … information search, there is little knowledge of the enabling technology, and the understanding of the pricing is generally low …

This paper investigates the role of knowledge in the evolution of new financial services ventures in Sweden between … 1990 and 2002. Drawing upon economic theories of human capital and spin-out entrepreneurship, we investigate if knowledge … knowledge from the financial services and high-tech sectors have higher chances of survival than firms with more narrow …

interpreted within a framework combining theories about knowledge management with concepts from structuration theory and cognitive … knowledge management system might start a horizontal and vertical movement, a movement of coordination and enhancement. I … propose that what the employees want to achieve with the knowledge management system depends on what strategy they have for it. …

about knowledge management with concepts from Anthony Giddens structuration theory in the theoretical framework that I use … society. I therefore concern myself with a pair of twin concepts that are interrelated. The first one is knowledge structuring …; the second is knowledge domination. These two concepts are of vital importance when trying to understand, assess and …

Improving the artefacts a knowledge worker uses and how he or she exercises his or her knowledge is a desire that is … part of being professional, especially since we are supposed to live in a knowledge society. In the knowledge society there … an awareness of how an artefact such as a new knowledge management system becomes a driving force behind expanding the …