The purpose of this study is to explore the role tacit knowledge transfer in a particular type global manager - inpatriate who typically relocated from MNC’s subsidiary headquarter. To do so, we draw on social embeddedness theory. Our paper suggests that if an becomes embedded within MNCs headquarter, will occur resulting innovative practices and mindset headquarters. This takes unique approach...

Global software development (GSD) is considered as the coordinated activities of software development that are geographically and temporally distributed. The management of architectural knowledge, specifically, architectural design decisions (ADDs), becomes important in GSD due to the geographical, temporal, and cultural challenges in global environments. Based on our previous work on ADD manag...

This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted at multinational organizations’ R&D departments about their process of managing knowledge in global settings. The tension between specializing units into centers of excellence, while at the same time trying to find integration opportunities in this dispersed setting, creates challenges for management. This study approaches these challenges fro...

Organizations and health agencies working on meeting global health challenges are becoming increasingly data driven. Governments and donors are demanding rigorous and up-todate assessment of patient needs and health service delivery. These organizations work in some of the most difficult data environments dealing with limited infrastructure and human resources, inconsistent data quality and ava...

Health in All Policies (HiAP) has gained attention as a potential tool to address complex health and societal challenges at global, regional, national and subnational levels. In a recent article, Lawless et al propose an evaluation framework developed in the context of the South Australia HiAP initiative. Strategies, mediators, activities and impacts identified in the framework could potentiall...

Research efforts in Virtual Worlds domain have been mainly devoted to user interfaces, communication supports and consistency issues. To the best of our knowledge, no works clearly focused on the global problem of managing virtual world’s data. The promise of future large persistent virtual worlds, evolving during a long period of time and with large number of participants makes the question of...

a Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico b Grupo de Investigación Ecobiología Médica, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, General Escobedo, Nuevo León, Mexico c Departamento de Fisiología, Farmacología y Toxicología, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universi...