This book demonstrates how traditional knowledge can be connected to the modern world. Human knowledge of housing, health and agriculture dates back thousands of years, with old wisdom developing and becoming modern. But in the past few decades, global communities have increasingly become aware...

This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations. Collaboration for innovation is a topic that has attracted widespread interest from academics, business strategists and government officials. To date the collaborations have focused on the...

This book contributes to our understanding of the reasons for the uneven geographic emergence and distribution of innovative start-ups and human capital, analyzing the role of the regional knowledge base and specifically academic knowledge. Using extensive datasets from West German regions and...

Moritz Schellenberger untersucht den Prozess der Wissensemission und -absorption in zwei Tiefenfallstudien in zwei namhaften deutschen Unternehmen der Pharma- und Automobilbranche mit dem interorganisationalen Austausch von Boundary Objects als Analysegegenstand. Das Ergebnis zeigt einen...

This book links knowledge management literature and information systems research to explore the process of knowledge preservation within a community of practice. It contributes to existing literature in different ways. First, it provides a conceptualization of the “community knowledge...

Innovationen als betriebliche Notwendigkeiten -- Grundlagen der Analogiebildung -- Inventive Analogien in der Neuproduktentwicklung -- Förderung der Identifikation von Analogiequellen während der Ideengenerierung -- Fragebogenuntersuchung auf Unternehmensebene -- Experimentelle Untersuchung...

Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations "forget"? Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another? These are among the questions addressed in Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring...

Preface by Johan Roos -- Processual Knowledge Production in Autopoietic Organizations -- Organization -- Systemic View and Systems Thinking -- Autopoiesis -- Process Perspective -- Luhmann’s View of Social Autopoietic Systems -- Epistemological Assumptions -- Knowledge and Knowledge Management...

Wissenstransfer und Wissensbarrieren.- Theorie der Neuen Institutionenökonomie als Erklärungsansatz des Wissenstransfers -- Hypothesenformulierung zur Gestaltung von Wissenstransferprozessen -- Konsequenzen für die Gestaltung des Wissenstransfers in Unternehmen.

Chapter 1 Systemic Synthesis and Metaphysics: Eastern versus Western Thinking -- Chapter 2 Multiple Criteria Ranking in Future Network Management -- Chapter 3 Evolutionary Knowledge Creation from an Eastern Perspective -- Chapter 4 Data Mining of Telecommunications Data as an Example of Systemic...