In recent years, the ability to mine, manage, and examine big data has sparked a strong interest among scholars and managers to leverage data science and machine-learning approaches for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of various areas of knowledge management. The success of today’s enterprises increasingly depends on the efficiency and quality of their cross-boundary knowledge flows ...

Online brand communities reflect a shared interest among participants that sustains community identity around and through brand consumption. While exchanges within such a community are typically supportive, conflict can exist between different, and sometimes competing, brand communities. The phenomena of communities in conflict introduces an element of ‘other’ that allows each community to deli...

The goal of this paper is to examine whether the use of Facebook in the workplace impacts on employees’ boundary spanning activities (BSA) and social capital. Two types of social capital are examined: bonding and bridging. The sample consisted of 399 full-time white-collar workers in Taiwan. A snowball sampling technique was used to recruit participants to complete an online survey. The results...

The paper uses and extends upon a sociomaterial view of organizational IS by relating this to modalities of sensemaking across boundaries and levels of framing in managing the meaning of IS performativity. Data from a field study of Enterprise IS redesign at a US University are analyzed from an actor-network perspective to reveal a genealogy of IS design evolution. Three modalities of sociomate...

a spanning tree of graph g is a spanning subgraph of g that is a tree. in this paper, we focusour attention on (n,m) graphs, where m = n, n + 1, n + 2 and n + 3. we also determine somecoefficients of the laplacian characteristic polynomial of fullerene graphs.

P research has studied how the selection and use of control portfolios in software projects is based on environmental and task characteristics. However, little research has examined the consequences of control mode choices on project performance. This paper reports on a study that addresses this issue in the context of outsourced software projects. In addition, we propose that boundary-spanning...

In environments where risk planning does not eliminate disruptions, advancing risk management requires an improved understating of the relationships among different types of deviations. This empirical study of IT professionals in a single organization differentiates requirements fluctuations, staff fluctuations and technology fluctuations to reveal distinct performance effects from challenges e...

The fractions of samples spanning a lattice at its percolation threshold are found by computer simulation of random site-percolation in twoand three-dimensional hypercubic lattices using different boundary conditions. As a byproduct we find pc = 0.311605(5) in the cubic lattice.

Recent policy initiatives in the UK and internationally have sought to promote knowledge translation between the 'producers' and 'users' of research. Within this paper we explore how boundary-spanning interventions used within such initiatives can support knowledge translation between diverse groups. Using qualitative data from a 3-year research study conducted from January 2010 to December 201...

BACKGROUND Human knowledge and innovation are recorded in two media: scholarly publication and patents. These records not only document a new scientific insight or new method developed, but they also carefully cite prior work upon which the innovation is built. METHODOLOGY We quantify the impact of information flow across fields using two large citation dataset: one spanning over a century of...