Vicious and Virtuous Circles in the Management of Knowledge: The Case of Infosys Technologies

* Prepared for New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics

Economic activity in different industries is linked to each other through aggregate income (horizontal linkages) and input-output relationships (vertical linkages). Could such linkages give rise to vicious circles of underdevelopment or virtuous circles of development when there are increasing returns to scale at the firm level? We show that vicious or virtuous circles based on demand linkages ...

Teaching case Infosys Technologies: improving organizational knowledge flows

Knowledge is being discussed as one of the most important organizational resources. But these resources exist in specialized pockets dispersed across the organization, and dedicated knowledge management (KM) programs are required to improve their flow. However, high failure rates of such programs raise serious doubts about their ability to improve knowledge flows. This case traces the KM progra...

The Components of the Ethical Behaviour of Virtuous Nurses in Medical Teams

Abstract Introduction: Ethical behaviour is a fundamental feature of professional nursing. Objective: The present study aimed to determine challenges of premarital education program in Iran. Materials and Methods: In this qualitative research, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect information. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. The st...

Knowledge Flows Automation and Designing a Knowledge Management Framework for Educational Organizations

  One of an important factor in the success of organizations is the efficiency of knowledge flow. The knowledge flow is a comprehensive concept and in recent studies of organizational analysis broadly considered in the areas of strategic management, organizational analysis and economics. In this paper, we consider knowledge flows from an Information Technology (IT) viewpoint. We usually have tw...

Vicious and virtuous circles of offshoring attitudes and relational behaviours. A configurational study of German IT developers