this editorial paper highlights the significance of scholarly contributions from non-western contexts to business and management studies in general and marketing in particular. it calls for constructive, ethical, and committed collaborations between authors and reviewers of academic articles in order to collectively enhance knowledge generation in a global era. using iranian journal of manageme...

social learning and knowledge generation are two key factors to achieve successful natural resources co-management. social learning can be beneficial by broadcasting and transmitting experiences and problem solving ideas in a group of people. social learning networks can transmit knowledge and experiences from one node to another in the network. social learning can produce a suitable learning a...

This paper presents a new architecture for summarising complex time series data, in which four main components together with a knowledge base and a database are integrated. Based on the architecture, a knowledge-based text generation system has been implemented and its main functions are briefly explained in the context of a sample of data. Evaluation of the system has been done and some conclu...

One of the main obstacles to the development of any text generation system is the difficulty of creating the knowledge base from which texts are generated. In particular, a system which performs sentence generation ‘from scratch’ requires a great deal of information about how concepts in its knowledge base are expressed syntactically. Unsurprisingly, it has proven very difficult to build tools ...

This paper describes the process of encounter between the field of knowledge management for development (KM4D) and transdisciplinary research which have led to the convergence between the two fields in terms of a focus on real world problems in a complex world; multiple actors; processes and methodologies; and knowledge integration and co-creation. The development of both fields is traced chron...