This book deals with two important topics for a firm's competitiveness in the framework of the information society: alliance strategies and the role played by IT in alliances. While technical solutions to distance work abound, there is a lack of a strong and theoretically-grounded approach on...

"This book seeks to fill the knowledge gap surrounding Communities of Practice and their role within developing nations, focusing on critical topics related to different types of knowledge communities and the ways in which such communities generate innovation"--Provided by publisher

"This book covers the key topics of opinion mining and sentiment analysis. It includes future trends and research directions related to opinion supervised and unsupervised approaches for opinion mining, machine learning techniques, deep learning and opinion spam detection. The book also includes...

1. Introduction -- 2. Learning theory and technology : behavioral, constructivist and adult learning approaches -- 3. Tutorial method : profiling, customization and agents -- 4. Group method : virtual teams and communities -- 5. Human-computer interaction in education -- 6. Interactivity and...

This book explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then...

Although it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to regularly collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information, a definitive work on the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable this collaborative information behavior has been lacking. This...

"This book details practices of and technologies for e-collaborative knowledge construction, providing insights in the issue of how technologies can bring advancements for learning"--Provided by publisher.

"This book outlines different tools and technologies that can be applied depending on the type of innovation an organization desires, providing concrete advice on the different types of innovation, situations in which innovation may be useful and the role of knowledge and different tools and...

"This book offers indepth analysis of the different forms of collaborations on the Internet presenting several dimensions including sociological, psychological, and technical perspectives"--Provided by publisher.

"This book focuses on knowledge management theoretical models and empirical research findings for developing economies to create an understanding of the social, organizational, and cultural implementation aspects of knowledge management in the context of developing economies"--Provided by publisher.