Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.

The need for faster, more flexible and less risky ways for organisations to expand their capabilities and competencies increasingly lead to the formation and proliferation of networking strategies and partners. Understanding the potential contribution that CoP membership can provide within these...

An Australian Pacific Islands aid project that is in an advanced state of delivery is used as a case study. One of the authors, who is project manager of this project, provides valuable reflection of practice insights together with feedback and data from the aid recipients. The project brief...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to elucidate information on what creates the different types of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – In the conceptual model it is argued that the concept of social capital provides an interesting view on the creation of market-specific and...

In this thesis we consider how user-generated content that is assembled by different popular Web portals can be exploited for Multilingual Information Retrieval. We define the knowledge that can be derived from such portals as Social Semantics. We present to approaches, Cross-lingual Explicit...

Unternehmensumfelder sind vor allem aufgrund von Globalisierungstendenzen und schneller voranschreitendem technischen Fortschritt zunehmend dynamisch und komplex und werden als turbulent bezeichnet. Durch diese Turbulenz geht für Unternehmen Unsicherheit von den Umfeldern aus, die es zu...