As managers continue to use varied set of information technologies in this fast moving era of globalisation, electronic commerce, and mobile commerce, organisations should adopt an information technology architecture that manages knowledge and meta-knowledge, and enables decision-makers to use...

Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from their small farms and returns on all the inputs used depend critically on this decision. Yet no...

Analyzing an information system through knowledge’s point of view causes a change that, inevitably, engenders the awareness of the importance of the human and sociocultural dimensions to improve its performances. This chapter, based on a Model for Global Knowledge Management within the...

Computer-based information systems feature in almost every aspect of our lives, and yet most of us receive handwritten prescriptions when we visit our doctors and rely on paper-based medical records in our healthcare. Although electronic health record (EHR) systems have long been promoted as a...

The term knowledge management (KM) first came to prominence in the late 1990s. Although initially dismissed as a fad, KM continues to be featured in articles concerning business productivity and innovation. And yet, clear-cut examples that demonstrate the success of KM are few and far between. A...

Although Communities of Practice have become a core concept in understanding how knowledge is managed within organizations, there have been few studies of the praxis of formation of Communities of Practice. In this article, we report on a Grounded Theory study of the members of a previously...

In last decade, Romanian IT sector register a sustained grown up, accordingly with official statistics. Also, by Romanian adhesion to EU, the emergent market to this sector is growing to entire European coverage. So, new technologies must be applied, together with relative low cost for labor, in...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human resources for health, supply chain management, health care financing, governance and service...

In the centre of attention of Recovery Plan of the EU for period 2010-14 are, so called, “smart investments” which, during long-term, should ensure higher growth and sustainable prosperity. "Smart investments" mean investments in research and development (R&D) and investments in education...

We combine new information technology (IT) offshoring and IT workforce microdata to investigate how the use of IT offshore captive centers is affecting the skill composition of the U.S. onshore IT workforce. The analysis is based on the theory that occupations involving tasks that are...