The process of knowledge acquisition of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) components may provide many difficulties. The existence of a huge amount of diffused information is one of the existing inconveniences related to the selection process. Furthermore, the problem of a choice of a proper methodology supporting COTS component selection and evaluation processes is characterized by a high level o...

Knowledge Management is considered to be important for organisational success in the context of the information society, where it is knowledge workers that are supposedly the sources of new value creation. The literature is mixed on exactly what constitutes knowledge management and there are various perspectives of what the important issues are. These range from technological perspectives that ...

A key step for success of marketer is to discover influential users who diffuse information and their followers have interest to this information and increase to diffuse information on social media. They can reduce the cost of advertising, increase sales and maximize diffusion of information.  A key problem is how to precisely identify the most influential users on social networks. In this pape...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has for a number of years been seen as a systemic interorganizational innovation that will have great impact on the efficiency of the construction process as a whole. In this study both successful and unsuccessful attempts to diffuse a BIMservice in the construction sector by a building material manufacturer has been studied through multiple data collection ...

Drawing from Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory and Hofstede’s typology of national culture, this study proposes that the diffusion VSNs in a country is influenced by the levels of its information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and human capital, which in turn are contingent on the national cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance. Utilizing the publicly available arch...

Spatial navigation in the absence of vision has been investigated from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. These different approaches have progressed our understanding of spatial knowledge acquisition by blind individuals, including their abilities, strategies, and corresponding mental representations. In this review, we propose a framework for investigating differences in spatial knowle...

This paper attempts to ascertain if skill-biased technologies developed in R&D-active countries diffuse to the rest of the world. First, using a model of international trade, I show the effects of skill-bias knowledge diffusion. The theory suggests that skill-biased technological diffusion need not increase skill premia, as sectoral biases can exert countervailing forces. Second, I test implica...

Prior studies have identified two major approaches of managing organizational knowledge assets: Codification and Personalization. The decision regarding which of the two major knowledge management (KM) approaches to adopt for an organization is a function of the organization’s core business, the competence so required, technological complexity of the critical processes responsible for the value...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and develop the argument that e-learning technologies and techniques can play a pivotal role in encouraging and facilitating organizational learning, by transforming tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge and diffusing it throughout the organization. Design/methodology/approach – By synthesising the evidence in organizational learning, inform...