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Abstract: "This book presents new technologies, approaches, issues, solutions, and cases that can help an organization implement a knowledge management (KM) initiative, presenting issues that drive the technologies, processes, methodologies, techniques, and practices used to implement KM in a variety of ways and in the multi-faceted modern environment that we find ourselves in today"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Measuring knowledge management outcomes at the individual level: towards a tool for research on organizational culture / Shahnawaz Muhammed, William J. Doll and Xiaodong Deng
• 2. Using agent based simulation and game theory analysis to study knowledge flow in organizations: the KMscape / Richard Jolly and Wayne Wakeland
• 3. A comprehensive model for assessing the organizational readiness of knowledge management / Babak Sohrabi, Iman Raeesi, Amir Khanlari and Sakineh Forouzandeh
• 4. Knowledge management toolkit for SMEs / Kerstin Fink and Christian Ploder
• 5. A framework for managing the life cycle of knowledge in global organizations / Mark Salisbury
• 6. Social network structures for explicit, tacit and potential knowledge / Anssi Smedlund
• 7. A simulation system for evaluating knowledge management system (KMS) implementation strategies in small to mid-size enterprises (SME) / Robert Judge
• 8. Knowledge sharing behavior of graduate students / Shaheen Majid and Sim Mong Wey
• 9. Cocreating corporate knowledge with a Wiki / Joseph A. Meloche, Helen Hasan, David Willis, Charmaine C. Pfaff and Yan Qi
• 10. Reaching for the moon: expanding transactive memory's reach with Wikis and tagging / Mark B. Allan, Anthony A. Korolis and Terri L. Griffith
• 11. Assessing the impact of knowledge transfer mechanisms on supply chain performance / Stephen McLaughlin
• 12. Capturing tacit knowledge from transient workers: improving the organizational competitiveness / Salah Eldin Adam Hamza
• 13. Organization of lessons learned knowledge: a taxonomy and implementation / Subramanian Rama Iyer, Ramesh Sharda, David Biros, Joyce Lucca and Upton Shimp
• 14. Investigating the impact of knowledge management factors on new product development performance / Belbaly Nassim
• 15. Knowledge strategy and its role in the organization: an exploratory study / Joseph E. Kasten
• 16. Zooming in on the effect of national culture on knowledge sharing behavior / Wei Li
• 17. Utilizing the Rasch model to develop and evaluate items for the tacit knowledge inventory for superintendents (TKIS) / Christian E. Mueller and Kelly D. Bradley
• 18. Exploring qualitative differences in knowledge sources: a study of hierarchical effects of judgmental confidence and accuracy performance / Carina Antonia Hallin, Torvald Øgaard and Einar Marnburg
• 19. An experiment of information elaboration in mediated knowledge transfer / Kelly J. Fadel, Alexandra Durcikova and Hoon S. Cha

• 20. Facilitating knowledge transfer and the achievement of competitive advantage with corporate universities: an exploratory model based on media richness and type of knowledge to be transferred / M. Suzanne Clinton, Kimberly L. Merritt and Samantha R. Murray
• 21. Knowledge management utilization: a case study of two Jordanian universities / Dalal M. Zoubi.

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Contributors:

Jennex, Murray E., 1956-

IGI Global

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Knowledge management

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed June 16, 2011).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HD30.2 .G572 2011eb

ISBNs:

9781609605551 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9781609605568 (ebook)

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-60960-555-1

OCLC Numbers:

807845952

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00548348 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00047437