Article history: Received 18 January 2013 Received in revised form 1 July 2013 Accepted 13 December 2013 Available online 24 January 2014 Radical innovations have enormous impacts on organizations, industries, and societies. The success of a radical innovation requires multiple facilitators within and across organizational boundaries. In this study, we distinguished the effects of two dimension...

We address the problem of term elimination in DLLite ontologies by adopting techniques from classical forgetting theory. Specifically, we generalize our previous results on forgetting in DL-Litecore TBox to forgetting in DL-Litebool KBs. We also introduce query-based forgetting, a parameterized definition of forgetting, which provides a unifying framework for defining and comparing different de...

Some memories of the events of our lives have a long shelf-life-they remain accessible to recollection even after long delays. Yet many other of our experiences are forgotten, sometimes very soon after they take place. In spite of the prevalence of forgetting, theories of the development of episodic and autobiographical memory largely ignore it as a potential source of variance in explanation o...

The effect of scopolamine on the consolidation and forgetting of emotional memory has not been completely elucidated yet. The aim of the present study was to investigate the time course of scopolamine effect on consolidation and forgetting of passive avoidance response. In a first experiment of the present study, we tested the effect of scopolamine (1mg/kg, i.p., immediately after acquisition),...

This work takes a historical approach to discussing Brown's (1958) paper, "Some Tests of the Decay Theory of Immediate Memory". This work was and continues to be extremely influential in the field of forgetting over the short term. Its primary importance is in establishing a theoretical basis to consider a process of fundamental importance: memory decay. Brown (1958) established that time-based...

introduction: organizational memory (om) is a tool for implementation of knowledge management. the objective of this study was designing an om for medical records (mr) departments. methods: this descriptive study was carried out in 2007. the study population consisted of all employees in five teaching hospitals in tabriz. process and required knowledge identification was performed through quest...

this study investigates the effects of financial management practices and their role in economical development and organizational performance. economic environment is changing rapidly and this change is characterised by such phenomena as the globalization, changing customer and investor demands, ever-increasing product-market competition. to compete successfully in this environment organization...

Current theories on organizational learning, knowledge representation, and knowledge management conceive organizational knowledge as shared knowledge. Furthermore, the purpose of managing knowledge in organizations is to share the not-yet-shared. The scope of this paper is to analyze current problems in the representation and management of organizational knowledge. We will outline a concept tha...