-specific knowledge of how and why to implement new knowledge. Pilot projects, a type of organizational experiment, involve making … adopting new knowledge prior to embarking on full-scale implementation. Despite the popularity of pilot projects used to test … developed based on the knowledge transfer, innovation diffusion, and organizational learning literature, and which were …

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 …

estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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 …

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 …