Purpose – This paper presents a system-based approach to action-directed knowledge management. This approach, known as system-based knowledge management (SBKM), allows one to respond to the observations made by previous writers that knowledge management should be cognisant of the complexity of knowledge in organisations and of the limitations of codification of that knowledge. Starts with a tax...

Prior research in technology use by individuals has predominantly focused on social influence as perceived by the individual. We take an alternative perspective and drawing from literature on normative influence and social networks, we develop cross-level hypotheses related to the effects of team level social influence on extensiveness of individual technology use. We test the research hypothes...

People taking part in argumentativedebates through collective annotations face a highly cognitive taskwhen trying to estimate the group’s global opinion. In order to reduce this effort, we propose in this paper to model such debates prior to evaluating their “social validation.” Computing the degree of global confirmation (resp. refutation) enables the identification of consensual (resp. contro...

introduction: information technology might have some potential effects, such as influencing treatment process, rate and easiness of information retrieval, and information availability for making clinical decisions based on conditions and management, educational and research activities on health service systems. recognizing these effects can be concerned as a foundation to strategic planning in ...

introduction: we can facilitate hospital management and prevent organizational crises by applying quality management principles. gharazi hospital in isfahan set up a quality management system in 1380 and in 1381 received iso 9001 , 2000 certificates. this study compared the quality management principles and the quality management system established in this hospital. methods: it is a cross-secti...

Abstract: Information behavior is one of the important research fields in the knowledge management. It could be considered as an effective factor in design, development and evaluation of data mining applications. This paper introduces an approach called elite information behavior in response to educational and research evolutions. This research is quantitative and tries to investigate the diffe...

information technology as a new and very efficient tool in human communications has multiple functions that effect on public affair management is one of them. along with growth & spread of such technologies in contemporary world, this function simultaneously has spread & is changing to be an important paradigm in management & regional administration all over the world. in the other hand, good g...