Knowledge-based capital is a key factor for productivity growth. Over the past 15 years, it has been increasingly recognised that knowledge-based capital comprises much more than technological knowledge and that these other components are essential for understanding productivity developments and...

We analyze whether an informal second channel for communication can improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer in an electronic network of practice. We explore this question by analyzing the effect of chat rooms in the well-known Q&A forum Stack Overflow. We identify the causal effect using a...

"This research scrutinises the connection between the demographics of respondents, their personal knowledge management (PKM) skills, their leadership styles and the performance and size of their organisations: it investigates to what degree the PKM and leadership styles of top management are...