Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if wages reflect marginal social products. We propose an approach that yields positive average human capital externalities if and only if the marginal social product of workers with above-average human capital e...

How do R&D employees use their social networks to acquire user information? Carl Wadell Jennie Björk Mats Magnusson Article information: To cite this document: Carl Wadell Jennie Björk Mats Magnusson , (2014),"How do R&D employees use their social networks to acquire user information?", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 18 Iss 5 pp. 919 936 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org...

As suggested by prior studies, tacit knowledge sharing is a natural process of social interaction. The perspectives of social capital and behavioural control are thus employed in this study to investigate an employee’s tacit knowledge sharing and behaviourwithin aworkgroup. This study collects data through a multi-informant questionnaire design. Three interesting results were obtained in this s...

The research area of knowledge transfer is a critical one in the current era of the knowledge economy. Previous studies have channelled much effort into understanding how knowledge transfer could be facilitated efficiently. Yet most of these studies conducted research only at the individual level, ignoring the fact that, in many organizations, the team now serves as the basic unit for transferr...

This conceptual paper introduces the important link between law and knowledge resources. We analyse the three key types of institutions: common law, civil law, and social norms, conventions and how they define the nature of property rights for knowledge resources and assets. Knowledge, because of its intangible nature and value, raises fundamental issues of, measurement and property rights that...

In the information age, a common problem for employees is not lack of resources but rather how to sift through multiple resources, both electronic and interpersonal, to retrieve and locate true expert knowledge. The main objective of this study is hence to explore employees’ simultaneous usage of both resources and to identify situations where employees showed a clear preference of interpersona...

background: the aim of this study was to assess community knowledge and behavioral impact of the social mobili­zation and communication strategy applied in a dengue high-risk area in sri lanka. methods: a group of adults visiting selected primary care facilities in colombo district were interviewed to collect socio-demographicdata, attributes of knowledge regarding dengue and the responsive beh...

This paper presents Klout Topics, a lightweight ontology to describe social media users’ topics of interest and expertise. Klout Topics is designed to: be human-readable and consumerfriendly; cover multiple domains of knowledge in depth; and promote data extensibility via knowledge base entities. We discuss why this ontology is well-suited for text labeling and interest modeling applications, a...

Planning a visit to Expo Milano 2015 or simply touring in Milan are activities that require a certain amount of a priori knowledge of the city. In this paper, we present the process of building such a comprehensive knowledge base, the 3cixty KB, that contains descriptions of events, places, transportation facilities and social activities, collected from numerous static, nearand real-time local ...