Received: 22 September 2011 Revised: 2 July 2012 Accepted: 17 October 2012 Abstract Numerous studies highlight the advantages of accessing knowledge from outside the firm as a means of enhancing the firm’s innovation efforts. However, access to external knowledge is not without organisational problems, including rejection of external knowledge by firm members or difficulties in applying such kn...

The knowledge economy is recognizing tacit knowledge as a resource even more valuable than their codified knowledge stocks. However, while much discussion is contained in the organizational and managerial literature, there are few technological solutions to assist its capture. In this paper we first consider the nature of tacit knowledge, the difficulties associated with its acquisition and the...

A knowledge service-oriented business has not been highly progressed because most of potential users do not expect much on it by chronic feeling of disappointment about conventional strategy of knowledge management. Since the approaches to manage and utilize knowledge within an organization were identically split into one of knowledge acquisition and distribution, few practical ways providing k...

Both machine learning and knowledge elicitation from human experts have unique strengths and weaknesses. Man-machine collaboration for knowledge acquisition allows both knowledge acquisition techniques to be employed handin-hand. The strengths of each can alleviate the other’s weaknesses. This has the potential to both reduce the time taken to develop an expert system while increasing the quali...

This paper addresses the topic of knowledge management in multinational companies (MNCs). Its purpose is to examine the role of expatriates in knowledge acquisition and transfer within MNCs. Specifically it focuses on knowledge acquisition and transfer from one MNC head office located in Germany to two Portuguese subsidiaries as a basis for competitive advantage in their Portuguese subsidiaries...

One of the major issues for knowledge management in a project environment is the poor project success analysis and the lack of proper documentation on the results of the previous projects. In this research, we investigate in which way project success analysis, presented as a framework, can improve knowledge management in project environment. An empirical research was conducted in order to defin...

d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

Within our long term interdisciplinary project Nasca/Palpa modern 3D data acquisition techniques were applied for different purposes successfully in the past, particularly for mapping of large and medium scale decorations found in the landscape such as the famous geoglyphs in the Palpa and Nasca regions as well as the petroglyphs of Chichictara. Archaeologists involved in research on the Nasca ...