Increasing Specialization of Knowledge Leads to Increasing Fragmentation

Hierarchies , Specialization , and Increasing Returns to Knowledge : Theory and Evidence from the Legal Services Industry

What role do hierarchies play with respect to the organization of production and what determines their structure? We develop an equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law offices from the 1992 Census of Services. The driving force in the model is increasing returns in the utilization of acquired knowledge. We show ...

Increasing Peer Pressure on any Connected Graph Leads to Consensus

Justin Semonsen, ∗ Christopher Griffin, † Anna Squicciarini, ‡ and Sarah Rajtmajer § Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 2 Mathematics Department, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21666 3 College of Info. Sci. and Tech., Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802 4 Quantitative Scientific Solutions, Arlington, VA 22203 (Dated: June 20, 2017 preprint)

Increasing Knowledge Capturing Efficiency by Enterprise Portals

Purpose: Collaborative ontology editing tools enable distributed user groups to build and maintain ontologies. Enterprises that use these tools to simply capture knowledge for a given ontological structure face the following problems: (i) isolated software solution requiring its own user management, (ii) the user interface often does not provide a look-and-feel that is familiar to its users, (i...

Increasing IPM Knowledge Through FFS in Benin

Increasing their Usefulness by Supporting Knowledge Capture

Organizations use various resources to achieve business objectives, and for financial gain. In modern business, knowledge is a critical resource, and organizations cannot afford not to manage it. Knowledge Management (KM) aims to support learning and to create value for the organization. Based on three levels of inquiry (why, what, how), work presented in this thesis includes a synthesized view...