Knowledge management: The missing link in DMO crisis management?

Despite some recognition of the role of destination marketing organisations (DMOs) in crisis management, limited attention has focused on the role of DMOs in crisis events, and in particular their role in managing knowledge across diverse stakeholder groups and domains. This theoretical paper attempts to address this deficiency by synthesising knowledge management and tourism crisis management literature, to outline the potential role of DMOs in managing knowledge across boundaries during crises. Carlile's [(2004). Transferring, translating, and transforming: An integrative framework for managing knowledge across boundaries. Organization Science, 15(5), 555-568] work on boundary spanning is used to consider potential organisational and management issues for DMOs dealing with crisis events and how they should be managed. This paper argues that because of the role and nature of DMOs, they should play an important role as knowledge spanners/brokers to transfer, translate and transform knowledge to stakeholders. The paper concludes with future research avenues related to knowledge management, DMOs and crises

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The invariant mass distribution of jet pairs observed in the UA2 central calorimeter is examined in the search for an excess of events in the region of the W -+ and Z bosons, which would reveal their decays into quark-antiquark pairs. We give a detailed account of the methods of analysis used to optimize the mass resolution achieving ~ + 10%. A structure is observed at the level of = 3 standard deviations in the mass region of W ± and Z with shape and position consistent with expectation from their qft decays. It contains 632 + 190 events, 1.4 standard deviations above the standard model prediction of 340 + 80 events. On leave from Scuola Norrnal

The LHC1 pixel detector studied in a 120 GeV/c pion test beam.

ABSTRACT Hybrid assemblies of LHC1 read-out chips and 300 um thick silicon pixel detectors have been tested with a 120 GeV/c pion beam at the CERN SPS. The equivalent noise charge at the input of the preamplifier is 200 e. The particle detection efficiency is higher than 99.9%. A 30 ns wide efficiency plateau is reached for a 60 ns wide trigger pulse applied after a 2 us delay. The 50 um, 500 um pixels yield a spatial precision of 129.4+/-0.2 um in the large pitch direction. In the other direction the precision is 12.2+/-0.2 um for single-pixel clusters