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    Multidimensional Knowledge Flow Dynamics in Context

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    Knowledge is a sustainable advantage and knowledge assets can increase value with use. A snowball effect of knowledge advantage advocates effective knowledge management and fosters its continual growth as it flows. Knowledge, however, flows unevenly throughout an organization and the problem is that the fundamental dynamics of these flows are still not well characterized in theoretical and computational models. This study built on existing work—knowledge-flow theory, need knowledge generation, and the critical success factors for enterprise resource planning implementation—to examine the multidimensional knowledge-flow phenomenon in context, and used the case study methodology for knowledge-flow theory building. The research question was two-pronged: how can need knowledge and its flow across stakeholders within an organization be explained using a multidimensional knowledge-flow model and how can Nissen’s five-dimensional knowledge-flow model be validated using a real-life immersion case? The researcher relied on three sources of evidence for this case study: project-related documentation, archival records, and interviews. Data triangulation yielded three results components: (a) a chronology of key events that obstructed knowledge flow, (b) a logic model depicting themes that contributed to knowledge-flow obstruction, and (c) explanations of the knowledge-flow patterns. This case study suggested enabling need knowledge determinants and obstructing conditions are in play that determine the path of need knowledge flow. These two research artifacts should be considered together to provide a fresh research avenue towards better understanding of knowledge flow dynamics

    Volume 21, Issue 2 (Fall 1998)

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    https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/transcript/1103/thumbnail.jp

    Special Libraries, December 1977

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    Volume 68, Issue 12https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1977/1008/thumbnail.jp

    Interorganisationale Netzwerke und digitale Gemeinschaften: Von Beiträgen zu Beteiligung?

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    In diesem Papier untersuchen wir anhand der Beispiele Wikimedia und Creative Commons das Management der Beziehung zwischen formal-vernetzten Organisationen und informaldigitalen Gemeinschaften. Die beiden Fälle stehen für die wachsende (auch: wissenschaftliche Anerkennung der) Bedeutung von Beiträgen aus größtenteils organisationsexternen Gemeinschaften für die Leistungserbringung von Organisationen. In einer vergleichenden Längsschnittstudie kontrastieren wir, wie zwei Franchisenetzwerke durch Abgrenzung (Creative Commons) oder Einbindung (Wikimedia) diffus-prekäre Grenzverhältnisse zwischen Organisation und Gemeinschaftsumwelt handhaben. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass sowohl Einbindungs- wie auch Abgrenzungsstrategien auf eine Formulierung von Gemeinschaftsgrenzen angewiesen sind, die anschlussfähig an die für die Gemeinschaft konstitutiven Beitragspraktiken ist. Dem interaktiven und historisch kontingenten Charakter dieser Grenzziehung wiederum scheint eine pragmatistische Strategie „korrigierbarer Vorläufigkeit“ am ehesten Rechnung zu tragen

    Organic foods on the public plate as a driver for learning

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