When products, processes and services are introduced for the first time totheir intended use environments, things often go wrong: Software is found to haveunanticipated "bugs"; process machines that worked very well in the developmentlaboratory promptly fail when first installed in a factory,...

To solve a problem, needed information and problem-solving capabilities must be brought together... [Eric von Hippel]<p>

This paper argues for a radical new understanding of the topic generally referred to as Tacit Knowledge. On the basis of a new appraisal of the work of Michael Polanyi, we argue that mapping, assessing, fostering, developing, and improving the tacit component in all use of skill and knowledge is...

Der Begriff Wissen ist in kurzer Zeit in das Zentrum der betriebswirtschaftlichen Diskussion geraten. Nie zuvor hat man in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre so intensiv über Wissen diskutiert, über die in Organisationen verwendeten Wissensarten, die Entstehung von organisationsspezifischem Wissen,...

... In this article, we discuss these conceptual flaws in the current knowledge debate and develop three requirements designed as a basis for qualifying knowledge from non-knowledge.

Vorliegende Fallstudie betrachtet die sd&m AG, welche individuelle Software für betriebliche Informationssysteme entwickelt.

Derzeit wird (erneut) diskutiert, die Softwareentwicklung durch einen systematischen Umgang mit der Unternehmensressource Wissen zu verbessern. Dabei dominieren datenbankorientierte Ansätze, die wie das Konzept der Experience Factory primär auf einen schriftlichen Transfer von...

Collaboration between different organisational partners is a process critical tothe success of many organisations. It is also frequently a complex process.There are many reasons to collaborate. Often partners have specific objectivesin mind. Partners may collaborate on the design of a car...

Extensive research has been conducted on collaborative R&D in the last decades. Moststudies concentrated on multinational enterprises in traditional industries andpharmaceuticals. In this paper we focus on collaborative R&D in new materials development.This field can hardly be related to a...