This book presents a series of studies that demonstrate the value of interactions between knowledge management with the arts and humanities. The carefully compiled chapters show, on the one hand, how traditional methods from the arts and humanities - e.g. theatrical improvisatio…
This book explores the undeveloped potential of video-ethnography to study the material, embodied and sensory dimensions of workplace practices. With the growing interest in sociomateriality and the development of research on the embodied and sensory dimensions of organizational…
This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific work are driven by the shift to grid-based worlds, the use of information and communication systems, and the existential infrastructure, whic…
This book offers a new look at international security management combining practical applications and theoretical foundations for new solutions to today's complex security and safety challenges. The book's focus on safety as a positive experience complements the traditional appr…
In 'Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management, ' Firestone and McElroy, the architects of the New Knowledge Management (TNKM) provide an in-depth analysis of the most important issues in the field of Knowledge Management. The issues the book addresses are central in the field t…
This book "is the first book to take an issues-orientated approach to the central concerns of knowledge management. It is also a pivotal book in the development of the new knowledge managament paradigm because it demonstrates its ability to do what a new paradigm must. Namely, i…
In 'Key Issues in the New Knowledge Management, ' Firestone and McElroy, the architects of the New Knowledge Management (TNKM) provide an in-depth analysis of the most important issues in the field of Knowledge Management. The issues the book addresses are central in the field t…
The primary purpose of this handbook is to clearly describe the current state of theories of systems sciences and to support their use and practice. There are many ways in which systems sciences can be described. This handbook takes a multifaceted view of systems sciences and de…
This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, and offers guidelines for process-management and bluepr…
This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law, business, psychology, economics, medicine and more to discuss the trade-offs between different "layers" in designing the use of b…
This book establishes constructivist, interpretivist, and linguistic approaches based on conventions about the nature of qualitative and text data, the author's influence on text interpretation, and the validity checks used to justify text interpretations. Vast quantities of tex…
Commissioned by the Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies, comprises the reports of researchers from ten leading East Asian economies (the AT10) on the changing importance of networking in the production and service sectors in their home economy.
This book provides an outline for analyzing a range of policy.
