In knowledge-driven industrial markets employee turnover is often quite high despite each firm’s interest in restricting knowledge flow resulting from employee departures. We present a dynamic contracting and matching model of the employment relationship between a firm and a worker (engineer) that provides an equilibrium explanation for high turnover. Incompleteness of the contracting relations...

keywords: knowledge management locational data privacy organizational learning weblogs klogs reputation systems authenticity Jo Ann Oravec is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater (USA). She received her MBA, MA, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She taught computer information systems and publi...

successful implementation of knowledge management fororganizations requires a systematic and comprehensive perspective aboutvarious organizational factors. appropriateness of these factors and theirintegration and coordination is a vital perquisite for implementingknowledge management effectively. the primary purpose of the researchis investigating the effect of three fundamental aspects of int...

It is a well known fact that a wealth of knowledge lies in the head of employees making them one of the most or even the most valuable asset of organisations. But often this knowledge is not documented and organised in knowledge systems as required by the organisation, but informally shared. Of course this is against the organisation’s aim for keeping knowledge reusable as well as easily and pe...

The target of Hall for Workshop of Meta-synthetic Engineering (HWMSE) is to organically combine the human expert systems, machine systems and knowledge systems so as to realize meta-synthesis. It is a human-centered man-machine-net cooperation system for information processing, knowledge creation and wisdom integration. The availability of HWM SE embodies in the capabilities of knowledge using ...

The co-creation of knowledge is gaining recognition and use within the science, practice, movement agroecology. Knowledge fosters participatory learning development, which differs from passive sharing. This approach can bridge real perceived gaps across diverse forms knowledge, including what often distinguished as farmers’ traditional, Indigenous, tacit, or local experts’ scientific, western, ...