We develop the concept of perceived proximity, understood as a symbolic representation of one's faraway coworkers. We … build on Wilson et al. (2008), present new validated measures of perceived proximity, and compare how perceived proximity … strong support for a symbolic view of work relationships. Indeed, it is the symbolic meaning of proximity and not physical …

Despite the vast literature on knowledge management, little research has addressed the specificities of knowledge … knowledge management. Anchored in a knowledge-based perspective, this paper aims at bridging the two fields, filling the gap by … analysing the role of cluster governance in knowledge management. An empirical study of two small French firm clusters was …

In order to develop an indicator measuring the proximity of e-Government and its different generic functions, we … six dimensions of proximity and we surveyed the official Websites of the French-speaking Swiss Cantons in 2002 and 2003 … give some hints for the application of a methodology based on proximity measurement. …

, knowledge is actually becoming the principal value of reference in the new business model, and beyond business, may well prove … fast, lest many will fall behind and the “Knowledge Divide”, so much more important than the widely talked-about “Digital …

Fordism. Such a crisis manifests itself as a break with respect to the polarising tendency of the forms of knowledge informing …

of the cognitive dimensions of labour. This is not to say that the centralityof knowledge to capitalism is new per se …. Rather, the question we must ask is to what extent we canspeak of a new role for knowledge and, more importantly, its … validity ofMarx's analysis of the knowledge/power relation in the development of the division of labour. Moreprecisely, we are …

Knowledge Management (KM) is a field that has attracted much attention both in academic and practitioner circles. Most … KM projects appear to be primarily concerned with knowledge that can be quantified and can be captured, codified and … knowledge cannot be quantified and cannot be captured, codified or stored. However, the predominant approach to the management …