Learning (in its broad meaning of “knowledge gaining”) represents one of the Knowledge Management pillars. It can be studied from different angles. The SECI learning model by Nonaka and Takeuchi presented knowledge as an eternal process running in human communities. It shows how learning is born and growing in individuals and society. Bloom’s taxonomy is a key learning model in pedagogy. It ser...

We are reaching the end of the second generation of knowledge management, with its focus on tacit-explicit knowledge conversion. Triggered by the SECI model of Nonaka, it replaced a first generation focus and in support of BPR initiatives. Like BPR it has substantially failed to deliver on its promised benefits. The third generation requires the clear separation of contest, narrative and conten...

This paper explores the relationship between organisational knowledge, organisational culture, and Process Based Systems (PBS), in the U.K. National Health Service (NHS). Links between PBS and organisational culture have been observed before(Perry, 2003); the contribution made by PBS to organisational knowledge has also been suggested (Perry, 2004). However, links between organisational knowled...

Correspondence: Gregorio Martín-de Castro, Department of Business Administration & Nonaka Centre for Knowledge and Innovation, CUNEF, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract From the publication of seminal works in the 1990s until now, a great deal of theoretical proposals and empirical evidence has been published on intellectual capital (IC) and the firm....

Transaction cost economic theory (Williamson 1975; Grossman and Hart 1986; Klein, Crawford and Alchain 1978) supports expectations that market forces will increase with the proliferation of information technology since coordination costs between firms will decrease (Malone, Yates and Benjamin 1987). Despite the ability of rr to reduce coordination costs, there has been a trend to fewer but clos...

Management consulting firms are typical examples of knowledge-intensive organisations in which the consultants’ knowledge, in particular tacit knowledge, is critical to the success of the firms. The firm’s success depends on its continuous effort to retain the consultant’s tacit knowledge. This chapter will explore the conversion processes of consultants’ tacit knowledge to the organisational e...

We have carried out a radio-wavelength imaging survey of 45 bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs), using the Australia Telescope Compact Array to characterise the physical properties in their ionised boundary layers. We detected radio emission from a total of 25 clouds and using a combination of Digitised Sky Survey and mid-infrared MSX 8 μm images classified the emission into that associated with the io...

We have carried out a radio-wavelength imaging survey of 45 bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs), using the Australia Telescope Compact Array to characterise the physical properties in their ionised boundary layers. We detected radio emission from a total of 25 clouds and using a combination of Digitised Sky Survey and mid-infrared MSX 8µm images classified the emission into that associated with the ion...

BACKGROUND GNE myopathy is a rare autosomal recessively inherited muscle disease resulting from mutations in the gene encoding GNE (UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-2-epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase), a key enzyme in sialic acid biosynthesis. 154 different pathogenic variants have been previously associated with GNE myopathy. OBJECTIVE Describe novel pathogenic variants associated with GNE myopat...

Distal myopathies are a group of heterogeneous disorders classified into one broad category due to the presentation of weakness involving the distal skeletal muscles. The recent years have witnessed increasing efforts to identify the causative genes for distal myopathies. The identification of few causative genes made the broad classification of these diseases under "distal myopathies" disputab...