Does cultural similarity affect destination choices of foreign direct investment (FDI)? To answer this question, I provide a novel identification strategy which explores discontinuous changes in investment from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (HMT) to Mainland China at borders of Chinese dialect zones. Mainland China can be geographically separated into various dialect zones. People who speak the s...

Bedside teaching is a vital component of medical education. It is applicable to any situation where teaching is imparted in the presence of patients. In teaching in the patients' presence, learners have the opportunities to use all of their senses and learn the humanistic aspect of medicine such as role modeling, which is vital but difficult to communicate in words. Unfortunately, bedside teach...

Ontologies evolve over time to adapt to the dynamically changing knowledge in a domain. The evolution includes addition of new entities and modification or deletion of obsolete entities. These changes could have impacts on the remaining entities and dependent systems of the ontology. In this paper, we address the impacts of changes prior to their permanent implementation. To this end, we identi...

the purpose of this research is to study the role of knowledge management in building an e-business strategy. in terms of purpose, nature and data collection, the research is respectively an applied, descriptive-survey and field study research. the population of the research consisted of two groups. the first one included 10 experts in the field of knowledge management and e-who determined the ...

Significantly, many of these problems can be traced to the internal workings of the organization. For example, the absence of a learning culture and negative attitudes towards knowledge creation and reuse by employees reflect organizationally-engrained problems that are difficult to be uprooted. These problems could be mitigated if the dysfunctional internal workings of the organization can som...

This study aimed to investigate the association between organizational agility and knowledge sharing process in the Iran's Central Plateau Contractor Company (ICPCC). For this purpose, one main hypothesis and three subsidiary hypotheses were formulated to assess the relation between organizational agility parameters, leadership and shared identity, strong strategy, and adaptable organizational ...

The knowledge-intensiveness of economy today is one of the reasons for researchers to consider that the foundation of organizational competitiveness has shifted from physical and material resources to intangible resources, and knowledge in particular [1]. The adoption of Knowledge Management (KM) as company practice was driven by large organizations and consulting companies world-wide. The comp...