This article develops a model of organizational knowledge acquisition in terms of modern psychological, sociological, economic and management theories by deconstructing the terms involved: an organization as a collective agent having goals and capabilities to achieve them; knowledge as the hidden state variables imputed to an agent as the basis of its capabilities; and acquisition as the reprod...

The central question of how adults learn has occupied the attention of scholars and practitioners since the founding of adult education as a professional field of practice in the 1920s. Some eighty years later, we have no single answer, no one theory or model of adult learning that explains all that we know about adult learners, the various contexts where learning takes place, and the process o...

Electronic knowledge repositories facilitate knowledge discovery and reuse by providing computer-mediated repositories for users to codify their expertise. However, why individuals volunteer to help strangers in these electronic networks is not well understood. There is no apparent benefit for the contributor and free-riders have same access to the public good as everyone else. Based on previou...

Knowledge transfer has long been a major focus of research in the literature on MNCs in developed countries. However, reverse knowledge transfer in MNCs in developing countries (e.g., China) have received limited attention. By integrating mentorship , social capital and international adjustment theories, this study developed a theoretical framework to demonstrate when and how mentoring improves...

Key users play an essential role in the implementation of enterprise systems (ES), undertaking a great deal of knowledge management. However, this important phenomenon has been largely overlooked by the extant literature. Drawing upon theories on cross boundary knowledge management, this research addresses why key users can facilitate cross boundary knowledge management, and how they do it. Thi...

Examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. This article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in Nigerian Universities. The structural-fu...

In this paper, we are mainly concerned with logical compilations of propositional knowledge bases. We propose a new approach to equivalence-preserving knowledge compilation based on a generalization of the standard notion of prime implicate, the theory prime implicates. Our approach consists in taking advantage of tractable theories implied by the knowledge base to make local by computing the t...

This paper describes a layers-of-quality model for designing e-Learning environments based on frameworks and models of instructional design (ID) applied in a hierarchical fashion. There have been a number of theories and models in the field of ID and technology that can be applied to make e-Learning a better quality. However, little is known about how to select appropriate models for improving ...

Knowledge compilation speeds inference by creating tractable approximations of a knowledge base, but this advantage is lost if the approximations are too large. We show how learning concept generalizations can allow for a more compact representation of the tractable theory. We also give a general induction rule for generating such concept generalizations. Finally, we prove that unless NP non-un...