Volume 1, Issue 2


Vol 1, Issue 2 - December 2003
Editorial Comment Fergal McGrath, Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, University of Limerick, Ireland

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Shared Languages and Shared Knowledge Rafif Al-Sayed and Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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The Impact of Question Structure when Sharing Knowledge Heather Bircham: University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Issues of Knowledge Management in the Public Sector Xiaoming Cong and Kaushik V Pandya, University of Luton, UK
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Developing Systems to Support Organisational Learning in Product Development Organisations, Brian Donnellan, Analog Devices BV, Limerick, Ireland, and Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
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Knowledge Management Development Challenges of Transition Economy Organisations representing different Value Creation Models, Tiit Elenurm, Estonian Business School, Tallinn, Estonia
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Designing for Innovation or Adaptation: The Symmetry, Syntopy and Synchrony of Boundary Spanning Partnerships Sean Gadman, International Business School, Isle of Man
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Knowledge Management System Building Blocks Georg Hüttenegger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria,
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KM Infrastructure and Electronic Services with Innovation Diffusion Characteristics for Community Economic Development Dawn Jutla, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada ; Steven Feindel, Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations, Nova Scotia, Canada ; Peter Bodorik, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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Towards Process Modelling in ‘Knowledge Management’ Work John Kawalek and Diane Hart, Sheffield University, UK,
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Determinants of Successful Knowledge Management Programs Mohamed Khalifa and Vanessa Liu, City University of Hong Kong,
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Case-Based Reasoning as a Technique for Knowledge Management in Business Process Redesign Selma Limam Mansar and Farhi Marir, London Metropolitan University, UK, and Haig A Reijers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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.A New Insight into the Valuation of Start-ups: Bridging the Intellectual Capital Gap in Venture Capital Appraisals Blanca María Martins Rodríguez, Polytechnic University of Catalonya, Barcelona, Spain
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Towards Understanding KM Practices in the Academic Environment: The Shoemaker’s Paradox Gary R Oliver, The University of Sydney, Australia, Meliha Handzic and Christine Van Toorn, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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The effect of Managerial Power and Relational Trust on the Skills and Traits of Knowledge Acquisition: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates John D. Politis, Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Knowledge Networking: A Strategy to Improve Workplace Health & Safety Knowledge Transfer Mario Roy, Robert Parent and Lise Desmarais, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Facilitating Organisational Sustainability Through Expert Investment Systems Carol Royal and Farhad Daneshgar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and Loretta O’Donnell, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Understanding Knowledge-Sharing in Online Communities of Practice Mark Sharratt and Abel Usoro, University of Paisley, Scotland
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Achieving Closure Through Knowledge Management Strategy, Duncan Shaw, John S. Edwards, Brad Baker and Paul M. Collier, Aston Business School, Birmingham, England.
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CULTURE AS AN ISSUE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING: a means of competitive advantage, Martin Soley and Kaushik V. Pandya, University of Luton, UK
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In Search of an Intellectual Capital General Theory, José María Viedma Martí, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
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