Understanding knowledge use for sustainability

Understanding Sustainability as Knowledge Practice

Agent-Based Modelling for Understanding Sustainability

Our aim is to demonstrate how agent-based models can play an important role in understanding sustainability. Here, we describe how the agentbased motivation models support the description of desirable outcomes and help to develop relevant and shared high-level goals in particularly complex areas such as sustainability. We focus on sustainable behaviour in households, and how to provide guidance...

Understanding Boundary-Spanning in Knowledge Work: Implications for IT Use*

interests include understanding collaboration practices on multi-party systems development projects, knowledge management in IT service delivery organizations, IT outsourcing strategy and implementation, and technology design principles in heterogeneous environments. Her research interests concern the construction of intra-organizational boundaries with practices of IS and the transformation of...

Understanding Dimensioning of Knowledge Transfer Perspectives

Most current conceptualisation of knowledge transfer emerges from the premise of occidental heritage. This paper examines the dialectical procedure, underpinning the unification of knowledge as an entity, and discusses dimensions of knowledge and knowledge transfer from the practitioner’s perspective. The study asks why, if knowledge is vital for business success and competitive advantage, the ...

Knowledge-based system for manufacturing sustainability

Today, sustainability becomes one of the biggest challenges. It represents a key issue in every production activity. To face this issue, a possible solution is to enhance knowledge usage in manufacturing and sustainability domains. In this paper, we extend the ONTO-PDM ontology for formalizing sustainable manufacturing knowledge. An industrial case is presented for instantiating the extension. ...