In this paper I am concerned with the challenge workplace learners and educators face, as they engage with global economies, to create `a world in common as . . . known in common¿ (Smith 1999). I focus first on why global ...

This article examines intra-group claims based on the principle of knowing receipt. There is significant uncertainty in this area of law, both in the group context and generally. In particular, there are complexities ...

Playa Abierta is a modern beach-side resort, one hundred kilometres west of Havana. Developed as a private resort in the 1950s, it was seized by the new revolutionary Cuban government in 1959 after its owner fled precipitately ...

This paper offers a critical review of relevant literature in the area of knowledge management and service innovation and suggests why previous strategy models fail to explain the relationship between knowledge resource ...

Designing virtual workspaces is largely an ad-hoc activity, and it is difficult and expensive to obtain knowledge about actual collaborative work processes to aid this design. However, workspace configurations naturally ...

A broad literature review reveals a large amount of research has been conducted in the area of Management Information Systems (MIS) in the construction industry. However, most of the existing softwares of MIS are data/document ...

The discourse on knowledge management (KM) has emerged relatively recently in the field of management. Organisational and strategic theories have been developed which seek to explain the existence, boundaries, structure, ...

In a unified conceptual model for first-order knowledge bases the data and knowledge are modelled formally in a uniform way. A knowledge base is maintained by modifying its conceptual model and by using those modifications ...

This article examines the knowledge-creating role of the Internet in international business activities of Vietnamese firms. The authors find that both the collection and the transformation of information from the Internet ...