The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, providing, and filtering of explicit knowledge. The information in a...

Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen haben in den letzten Jahren versucht, dem verschärften Wettbewerb durch Einführung neuer, innovativer Organisationskonzepte entgegenzutreten. Die Etablierung zwischenbetrieblicher Kooperation in Form von virtuellen Organisationen stellt dabei einen viel...

Computer-unterstütztes kooperatives Lernen ist ein zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnendes interdisziplinäres Forschungsfeld. Das Buch präsentiert die Proceedings der ersten deutschsprachigen Tagung zum Thema. In einem qualitätsorientierten Auswahlprozess wurden 15 Beiträge ausgewählt, die...

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that...

There has been little research on how social activists use information technology in carrying out their activities. Most of these activists belong to social organizations and recent literature has highlighted that most civil society organizations lack IT appropriation in their work practices. To...

The notion of a knowledge society demands equal access of knowledge for every stakeholder in the society. Modern information and communication technologies play a significant role in accessing and storing knowledge, which is a vital enabler for fostering knowledge society paradigm. Voluntary...