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Spatial development is a multi-dimensional process in which knowledge creation plays a crucial role. Since knowledge … central. Cities and regions strongly depend on the ability to absorb and reorganize knowledge bases in order to sustain … competitive advantage. This dissertation assesses and quantifies the interplay of knowledge creation and spatial development by …
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knowledge generation and its utilisation by research. The following four research areas are considered:(i) research before the … market.The presented approach has demonstrated its potential to generate the new knowledge needed to support innovative …
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between consumer societal knowledge and the purchase of socially-conscious products. However, the few studies which have … relationship between the knowledge and purchase. The identified potential moderating variables were then incorporated into … quantitative, survey research which was used to examine the nature of the relationship between consumer societal knowledge and the …
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study is to explore senior managers’knowledge of, feelings about, and perceptions towards their firm’s HIV/AIDS Policy … incomplete basic knowledge of thefirm’s HIV/AIDS Policy and they also express positive feelings about the policy. 75 percent of … the senior managers have no knowledge of the firm’s HIV/AIDS Policy.As far as the firm’s HIV/AIDS prevention and care …
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(from political-cultural economy), situated knowledge and participation (from gender theory), and the livelihood strategies … Kenyan women smallholders’: (1) knowledge of the horizontal and vertical ‘flows’ within their food networks; (2) their … findings of this study illustrate the knowledge, strategies and values of women smallholder farmers that are often beyond the …
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ABSTRACTCompetitive pressure and desire for success drive enterprises in general to involve in knowledge acquisition … world. In addition, with the increased mobility of information and the global labour force, knowledge and experience can be … competitive problems- and its ability to derive value from information. In this context, internal and external knowledge …
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Work process knowledge (WPK) is a concept for systems-level knowledge of the workplace and has been shown to be most … important in organisations requiring multi-functional working. Most of the previous body of knowledge on WPK has focussed mainly … comparative case studies of the work processes and knowledge within these six VAs, based on a social constructivist framework …
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Hintergrund der Untersuchung ist die zunehmende Bedeutung von Humankapital als wettbewerbsentscheidendem Produktionsfaktor in modernen humankapitalintensiven Unternehmungen. Es stellt sich die Frage nach den Auswirkungen der Bedeutungszunahme und der Regelung des „Primärhumankapitals“, also...
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The present thesis develops a formal model of endogenous growth that incorporates costly knowledge codification as a … means of intergenerational knowledge transfer. It identifies the circumstances under which knowledge codification takes … knowledge codification is central to utilize the non-rivalry of ideas for economic growth. However, while the usual models of …
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substantially improve performance at the organizational level. By synthesizing the knowledge based view of the firm with the concept … knowledge exchange and transfer. The increased knowledge stock as a result of knowledge exchange and transfer, in turn, forms … that both social capital and knowledge acquisition are crucial to the success of IT outsourcing. Evidence from the survey …
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