Knowledge management (KM) is now widely recognized to be important to the success or failure of business management. Seeking to better understand the determinants of the evolution of KM, this study focuses on two main problems: (1) whether firms change their KM processes over time to improve KM effectiveness as well as develop their KM practices, and (2) whether socio-technical support results ...

Knowledge management, innovativeness and innovation have an important impact on business development and survival. Empirically analyzing these three concepts is critical because of the importance of these concepts for creating competitive advantage. Organizations need to generate, modify, and manage knowledge in order to maintain their innovation capability. This study examines the relationship...

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions, and suggests major research gaps in the literature. Although growth in knowledge enables skill acquisition and specialization of labor, which generally raises labor productivity, and technical change, the dominant effect on agriculture has been technical change. A puzzle remains ...

Technology development and the fast changing market have resulted in the life cycle of high-tech products becoming shorter. Enterprises must therefore continuously conduct innovative research to meet customer demand and increase industrial competitiveness. Innovative product research and management have become the most important activities in enterprise survival and sustainability. This study i...

In interactive design processes, strategic decisions are made at different levels. To support designers, design support systems need to include corresponding strategic knowledge at these levels. In this paper three levels of strategic interaction and strategic knowledge are identified within a compositional model of design. These levels are identified in reasoning about the manipulation of requ...

The paper develops a generic framework for analyzing knowledge management in formal decision groups and applies it to council work. Requirements are deduced for a sociotechnical support of their knowledge management and organizational memory. It is then shown how this computer support has been implemented for the Stuttgart City Council. The Cuparla system has been in widespread use since fall 1...

Knowledge Management (KM) is not only about Knowledge Technology. The organisational debris from failed attempts to impose new technical infrastructures that are either inappropriate to their work environments, or where people are not willing to share knowledge is ample evidence. However, even if we accept the slogan, “80% people, 20% technology”, large scale KM initiatives will invariably depe...

The purpose of this research was to analyzing the perception and technical knowledge of wheat farmers in shoushtar township, Khouzestan province, Iran regarding organic farming products. The research method employed was correlative-descriptive. The population consisted of wheat farmers in Shoushtar township Khuzestan Province of Iran. A random sample of wheat farmers (n = 163) was selected. The...