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Prevailing views about what constitutes organisational knowledge need to be systematically evaluated at deep … foundation for thinking about knowledge epistemologies. We think, along with Bill McKelvey, (1997, 2002) that the “science of … knowledge contained within Karl Popper’s later epistemological works beginning with his 1972 “Objective Knowledge – an …
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If knowledge management is to be more than an art, it needs to be based on a sound epistemology and understanding of … organizations. We present a paradigm and an ontology of organizational knowledge based on Karl Popper’s 1972 and later works on … theoretical argument by providing examples of how several different types of knowledge created by people within organizations …
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Recently, Nature published an article comparing the quality of Wikipedia articles to those of Encyclopedia Britannica (Giles 2005). The article, which gained much public attention, provides evidence for Wikipedia quality, but does not provide an explanation of the underlying source of that...
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This paper studies how labor income taxation interacts with the organization of knowledge and production, and …
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This study presents a conceptual model of when and how knowledge demonstrability and superordinate social identity … impact the likelihood that organizations capitalize on their knowledge resources. To test the model, an experimental … methodology was used in which a member transfers from one group to another, transmitting knowledge in the form of a production …
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as knowledge, subject to their own awareness constraints. I characterize the interactive knowledge hierarchies under … knowledge. Aumann's classic characterization of common knowledge does not immediately apply in this environment, even if there … is "common awareness" of the event involved. An alternative characterization of common knowledge is provided …
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Scientific models structure our perception of reality. This paper studies how we choose among them under expert advice. Scientific models are formalised as probability distributions over possible scenarios. An expert is assumed to know the most likely model and seeks to communicate it to a...
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