Dissertations / Theses: 'Share of knowledge'

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Wang, Sheng. "To share or not to share an examination of the determinants of sharing knowledge via knowledge management systems /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117177005.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 290 p.; also includes graphics (some col.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-233). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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White, Kenneth. "Employee Determinants to Share Knowledge in a US Federal Government Environment." NSUWorks, 2013. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/363.

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Although the literature indicates that knowledge sharing (KS) research is prevalent in the private sector, there is scant empirical research data about KS in the public sector. Moreover, organizations lack an understanding of employee KS behavior. This study investigated two research questions: First, how does the perceived importance of five determinants of KS behavior (organizational culture, workplace trust, incentives, management support, and technology) vary based upon the variables of job function, gender, and work category? Second, what is the relative importance of the five determinants of KS behavior to U.S. federal government employees? This descriptive study employed a Web-based survey methodology and interviews to collect data. The survey was administered to 121 employees in a single U.S. government organization, with a response rate of 69%. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used for data analysis, and the multivariate analysis of variance and analysis of variance statistical techniques were used to compare variables. The study findings indicated no statistical differences in perceptions of the five facets investigated relative to the variables of work category, gender, and job function, and no statistical differences in the importance among the five determinates investigated. As a result, the null hypotheses were not rejected. Additional findings were that respondents perceived the five facets investigated to be positive KS determinants and that they agreed or strongly agreed that each facet was important to the success of KS initiatives. Although the results indicated no statistically significant difference between the five facets investigated, the results support literature findings that the five facets are important to the KS process. The investigation also advances the current state of KS implementation in the public sector by providing empirical data on a subject that is rarely investigated in the U.S. federal government. Future studies in similar and larger organizations are recommended. The investigation is a positive step toward improving the understanding of the determinants that affect employee KS behavior and provides a tool for KS planners to use to ascertain the state of KS in their organizations.

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Mansour, Osama. "Share with Social Media : The Case of a Wiki." Licentiate thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, fysik och matematik, DFM, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-11430.

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Traditional approaches to knowledge collaboration and sharing have proven to be limited in the sense of addressing organizational needs of dynamic and distributed knowledge. More recently, the emergence of social media and the second generation of web technologies have introduced new ways and possibilities for sharing knowledge in organizations. In particular, the wiki technology, as one type of social media, is argued to mark a shift in the way people collaborate and share knowledge with each other on the web. It represents a new, open style of knowledge collaboration and sharing which allows anyone to freely and openly create and shape knowledge. In this respect, organizations have been attracted by this new dynamic approach which is based on open collaboration and flexible participation. More organizations are using wikis in order to effectively leverage distributed knowledge and improve their competitive edge. Against this backdrop, this research is concerned with examining how such organizations use social media, the wiki technology in particular, for sharing knowledge among individuals and groups. The aim is twofold: to develop an understanding of the ways by which these individuals and groups exchange and share knowledge with each other and to identify different factors that influence knowledge collaboration and sharing using a wiki in an organizational setting. The research is based on three published research papers which provide both theoretical and empirical accounts of knowledge collaboration and sharing using wikis. To these ends of this research, an interpretive case study was used as an empirical research method with interviews as primary sources of data. Several other data sources have been triangulated during the empirical inquiry including field visits, observations, and documents. The case took place at a large multinational organization that used a wiki as a collaborative platform to support knowledge sharing among members of several professional communities of practice. Eventually, the outcome of the research is a thorough understanding that describes knowledge collaboration and sharing using a wiki as a dynamic social process involving recursive and dynamic social interactions among members of communities of practice through which knowledge is collaboratively constructed and reconstructed and thus shared. It also presents a dual impact of wiki openness on knowledge collaboration and sharing within organizations.

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Stighammar, Catrin, and Diana Puerto. "How to share what you cannot see : A study of the sharing of tacit knowledge within PricewaterhouseCoopers." Thesis, Linnaeus University, Linnaeus School of Business and Economics, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-5858.

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The necessity of managing the tacit knowledge sharing is becoming more significant because of the upcoming demographic changes facing companies all over the industrialized part of the world. The so called baby boomers born in the middle part of the 20th century will soon reach the retirement age and this is anticipated to create an extensive loss of knowledge. In light of that, companies face a dilemma when over bridging the knowledge gap between their more experienced senior employees who have accumulated plenty of knowledge and the novel ones. It opens the discussion concerning how to “capture” that knowledge since it is the competitive advantage in the contemporary world. This is particularly sensible for knowledge-based firms which are the main focus of this study.

Scholars have developed different approaches of the knowledge sharing phenomenon, but still there is a lack of understanding regarding how this abstract process should be supported in a daily basis. This work investigates the factors that aid or hinder the knowledge process within consulting firms as a prerequisite to reach a greater awareness of the particular setting that will foster the sharing. Supported by a theoretical background, this was accomplished by following a systems approach, favoring qualitative methods. The empirical data was collected using semistructured qualitative interviews within the headquarter offices of Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Stockholm, Sweden.

The exploratory results suggest that by converging specific aspects, consulting firms can overcome the most common barriers when sharing knowledge transfer. Furthermore, it is pointed out the positive conditions a firm has to develop as well as Theoretical and Managerial implications.

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Lönnström, Ellinor, and Cajsa Rimås. "How do Leaders Share Knowledge? : A single case study of a multinational corporation." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39694.

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Problem: The number of MNCs in the world are expanding and there is an ever-growing interest in how knowledge is shared since it is said to improve the organization's competitive advantage. It is further argued in existing literature that leadership, and more specifically the leadership behaviors, play a role in how knowledge is shared within multinational corporations. However, few examples from the international setting exist, which led the authors of this thesis to further explore this area of research. Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to explore what types of leadership behaviors influence knowledge sharing in a multinational corporation, and how these behaviors impact how leaders share knowledge. Methodology: In order to fulfill the purpose of this thesis and to properly answer the research question a qualitative approach was chosen. The empirical data was collected through a single case study of a Swedish MNC, Alpha, with subsidiaries abroad. The sample consisted of six participants who hold leadership positions within Alpha, and who continuously travel abroad to the subsidiaries in their work assignments. Findings: The authors of this thesis found evidence that leaders working in an international setting, such as an MNC, need to possess certain behaviors found in the description of both transactional and transformational leaders. However, the empirical data contribute to the current body of research by showing that these leaders also need to possess the behavior of cultural awareness, to have a deeper understanding of how the different cultures are represented within an organization.

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Ding, Zhikun. "Interpersonal trust and willingness to share knowledge among architects : a two-stage triangulation research." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38165430.

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Ding, Zhikun, and 丁志坤. "Interpersonal trust and willingness to share knowledge among architects: a two-stage triangulation research." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38585893.

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Pääkkö, Yasmina, and Kristine Samuelsson. "HRM as a motivator to share knowledge : The importance of seeing the whole picture." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-354424.

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Connecting Human Resource Management (HRM) and knowledge transfer through motivation is a new research area. Out of the few existing studies there is a predominance of quantitative studies, which are showing inconclusive results. As a response, this study uses a qualitative micro perspective to investigate how HRM practises influence intrinsic- and extrinsic motivation to share knowledge. It is important to divide motivation into intrinsic and extrinsic, as it impacts knowledge sharing differently. Former studies have identified a need to study the whole HRM system, therefore, to capture differences in motivation among employees exposed to the same system, this thesis takes on a single case study approach. Qualitative interviews were held with employees at an MNC that relies on knowledge intensive activities. The findings showed that employees were motivated intrinsically through career development and extrinsically by the performance management system. The supportive climate showed to influence motivation to share knowledge, both directly and indirectly. Job design was shown to work well in combination with other practises. Finally, a key finding was the importance of having an aligned HRM system.

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Strickland, Vhondy. "A correlational study on the absence of incentives to share knowledge in a virtual community." Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3627190.

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Extrinsic motivation may affect knowledge sharing in a virtual community. As virtual communities have become ubiquitous, understanding knowledge sharing in virtual communities has become very important. Knowledge sharing is one of the factors that allow virtual communities to be viable. This study sought to observe knowledge sharing in a virtual community, which does not use extrinsic motivation techniques as incentives to share knowledge. This correlation study used a framework that included the elements of social capital and outcome expectations. This study found that extrinsic rewards over time appear not to be important in knowledge sharing. The long term effect may be that extrinsic rewards are much less important than the design of the virtual community and the internal motivation of the members of the virtual community. One-hundred and thirty-three persons participated in this study.

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Khumbula, Chiedza. "Investigating the extent to which students share tacit knowledge using moblie phones in group projects." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10841.

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The benefit of group-learning to enhance the sharing of knowledge among students in group projects is increasingly preferred over traditional methods. However, there are still many challenges facing students learning in groups. These include: lack of leadership, time and scheduling of workload, free riding, individual and social barriers, lack of team development, lack of social interaction, lack of motivation, inadequate rewards, skills and attitude problems or social loafing. The integration of the mobile context and technologies in group-learning can assist in minimizing some of these barriers. Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are believed to transform teaching and learning processes through the facilitation of communication and interaction among teachers and learners. Researchers have also found that tacit knowledge has much greater importance to industry and academia. For instance, it allows individuals to achieve goals they personally value. It can be used to measure or predict job performance and those possessing it have been found to manage themselves and others better. This research investigates the extent to which students share tacit knowledge using the mobile phone in group projects, and examines if they achieve better performance with this technology.

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Bajracharya, Pranisha, and Masdeu Natalia Roma. "Tacit Knowledge Transfer in Small Segment of Small Enterprises." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-6209.

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Background: Though small enterprises are regarded as engine for the modern economy, they are not pioneers when it comes to implementing new advances like tacit knowledge transfer procedures. Tacit knowledge is often referred as skill, know-how and expertise which are embedded in each individual in an organization. The critical skills and competences of employees are intangible assets and firms’ intellectual resources. In this context, the tacit dimension of knowledge is potentially important to be transferred among individuals, either in tacit or explicit form, to build the core capabilities of small enterprises.

Problem Discussion: The existent Knowledge Management (KM) research has been mainly focused on big companies, providing little information for small enterprises. Authors believe the lack of attention that those small enterprises are putting on the strategic management of their knowledge is worrying. Tacit knowledge is one of the less explored areas within KM due to the difficulty to codify, formulate or express it. Despite this fact, it is perceived as “some kind of Holy Grail that will enable magnificent things to happen as soon as the codes of tacit knowledge have been deciphered”.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of the transference of tacit knowledge among individuals within small segment of small enterprises.

Method: To gather the information pertaining to tacit knowledge transfer in the small segment of small enterprises, authors have performed a qualitative and explanatory research by conducting several interviews with two small companies.

Result: Tacit to tacit knowledge transfer has been identified as more relevant than tacit to explicit conversion in the small segment of small enterprises. Therefore the main drivers of the transference of tacit knowledge are learning at personal level and common culture. Time, cost and distance have been recognized as major problems for small enterprises when transferring tacit knowledge.

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Hauck, Roslin Viprakasit. "SHOULD THEY SHARE OR NOT? AN INVESTIGATION ON THE USE OF COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING TECHNOLOGY IN A POLICE ORGANIZATION." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1021%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Fernkvist, Marcus, and Dick Wästberg. "Knowledge - Find it, Work it, Share it! : En kvalitativ studie som jämför kunskapsanvändande mellan konsulter med olika erfarenhetsnivåer." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro Universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-43301.

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Facione, Anethra Adeline. "Baby Boomers Retiring: Strategies for Small Businesses Retaining Explicit and Tacit Knowledge." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2651.

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More than 35% of the U.S. workforce is composed of Baby Boomers who are eligible to retire within the next 5 years. Despite the potential loss of critical expertise, a gap in knowledge retention exists in small consulting businesses. The purpose of this case study was to explore effective strategies for retaining the tacit and explicit knowledge of retiring employees, to avoid operational knowledge drain. Exploration ensued through semistructured interviews at 2 small consulting businesses in the Washington, DC metropolitan area that are adept at innovatively retaining requisite knowledge. The conceptual frameworks of Bass' transformational leadership and Nonaka's knowledge creation led to the identification of strategies to retain tacit and explicit knowledge of retiring Baby Boomers. Seven small business leaders addressed questions on knowledge types, knowledge stimulation and sharing methods, and retention strategies to provide meaningful responses to the knowledge retention phenomenon. Data analysis included the Colaizzi and modified van Kaam methods of mining, categorizing, organizing, and describing participants' statements. Subsequently, the themes that emerged during the analysis identified reward, communication, and motivation as strategies for knowledge-share and transfer. Succession planning, mentoring, documentation, training, and knowledge sharing also emerged as effective methods for knowledge retention. The findings will contribute to social change by illuminating the roles effective leaders practice to influence and foster knowledge management, offering insight to other small businesses having difficulties remaining sustainable as the operational knowledge of Baby Boomers becomes unavailable as they retire.

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Alotaibi, Arif Nasser. "The role of reward in individuals' motivation to share knowledge : a case study of two healthcare hospitals in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47986/.

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Organisations leverage their knowledge assets through the implementation of knowledge sharing. This process enables the movement of knowledge from the domain of the individual into the domain of the organisation. Since individuals are the primary actors in knowledge sharing activities within the organisation, they also incur the costs that are associated with them. Previous research has investigated how reward outweighs the involved costs, with a view to identifying how individuals can be encouraged to engage in knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is mainly perceived as being driven by intrinsic motivation. However, there is scant research evidence examining the role of motivation in the relationship between reward and knowledge sharing. This study explores the effect of reward on individuals‘ motivation to share knowledge within the healthcare sector of Saudi Arabia. A multiple-case design was used, as informed by Yin (2003), within the real-life context of two knowledge-based hospitals in the region. A sequential, exploratory mixed-method approach was used for data collection purposes with employees. This comprised a qualitative phase of 30 semi-structured interviews with managers and other employees, followed by a quantitative phase of a survey of 480 employees, who completed and returned questionnaires. The research findings from the qualitative analysis revealed that managers consider knowledge sharing to be a new concept; hence, it is not adequately implemented. However, knowledge sharing is considered to be important to employees. Motivational factors such as self-development and reciprocal relationships were identified as antecedents of employees‘ knowledge-sharing attitudes. These factors reflect the needs for both knowledge holders and knowledge seekers to engage in knowledge sharing. The quantitative analysis of the survey results revealed that these motivational factors significantly influence employees‘ intentions to share knowledge, and they are also significantly influenced by reward. The research study concludes that reward has a significant role in motivating employees to share knowledge. Therefore, non-financial rewards, such as training and recognition, are important motivational factors in employees‘ willingness to engage in knowledge sharing.

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Thersthol, Jonathan, and Eskil Höglund. "Hjälp, var tog kunskapen och kompetensen vägen? : En fallstudie av Svea Hovrätt och Uppsala Kommuns arbete med att kompetenssäkra verksamheten." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385737.

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Syftet med studien var att bidra till en djupare förståelse över hur organisationer arbetar med att kompetenssäkra verksamheten och hantera kunskapsförlust till följd av personalomsättning. Den här undersökningen utgörs av en fallstudie av Uppsala kommun och Svea Hovrätt och har en kvalitativ ansats. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju respondenter. Studiens teoretiska ramverk vilar på Nonaka och Konnos uppdelning av kunskapsbegreppet i implicit respektive explicit kunskap. Hansen, Nohria och Tierneys begrepp kodifiering och personalisering om överföring och bevarande av kunskap samt Hansson respektive Lindelöws olika modeller över kompetensutveckling och behållande av personal. Studiens resultat visar att det effektivaste sättet att behålla kunskap och kompetens inom organisationen är genom att behålla personalen. Arbetet med att behålla personal inkluderar lönesättning, att organisationen erbjuder utvecklingsmöjligheter och andra hygienfaktorer som anställningstrygghet. Resultatet visar att kompetensutveckling fyller flera syften, både som ett sätt att se till att rätt kompetens finns inom organisationen, men också som ett sätt för att personalen ska trivas och vilja arbeta kvar. Arbetet med kompetensutveckling innehåller delar som introduktionskurser, medarbetarsamtal, seminarier och utbildningar samt uppföljning. Ytterligare ett sätt att kompetenssäkra verksamheten är att bevara den kunskap som finns inom organisation genom kodifiering och personalisering. Det framkommer i studien att det svåra är att dela och behålla implicit kunskap som bygger på erfarenhet när en medarbetare lämnar organisationen.
The purpose of the study was to contribute to a deeper understanding of how organizations work to secure the competence and handle knowledge loss as a result of staff turnover. This study consists of a case study of Uppsala kommun and Svea Hovrätt and has a qualitative approach. The empirical material has been collected through semi-structured interviews with seven respondents. The study's theoretical framework rests upon Nonaka and Konno's breakdown of the concept of knowledge in implicit and explicit knowledge. Hansen, Nohria and Tierneys concepts of codification and personalization on transfer and preservation of knowledge, as well as Hansson and Lindelöw's both models of competence development and retention of staff. The study's results show that the most effective way of retaining knowledge and competence within the organization is by retaining the staff. The work of retaining staff includes wage setting, that the organization offers development opportunities and other hygiene factors such as job security. The result shows that competence development fulfills several purposes, both as a way of ensuring that the right skills are within the organization, but also as a way for the staff to feel comfortable and want to work. The work on competence development includes parts such as introductory courses, staff appraisals, seminars and training courses and follow-up. Another way to secure the competence is to preserve the knowledge that exists within the organization through codification and personalization. It appears from the study that the difficult thing is to share and maintain implicit knowledge based on experience when an employee leaves the organization.

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Chiu, Grace May. "Why not share the knowledge? how after-school community technology centers nurture community and agency among urban adolescent peer support networks /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666165081&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Chumg, Hao-Fan. "Investigation of factors that affect the willingness of individuals to share knowledge in the virtual organisation of Taiwanese non-governmental organisations." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19701.

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With the advent of knowledge-intensive economies, plus the ever-accelerating development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), organisational knowledge has become the key driver of an organisation's value and ultimately, an important source of an organisation's sustainable competitive edge. Thus, numerous organisations have started to invest heavily in establishing knowledge management systems (KMSs). Subsequently, they wish to access knowledge from individuals in order to enhance their acquisition of knowledge and ultimately transform this into organisational knowledge. Even though existing research studies have evidenced extensively the intrinsic and extrinsic motivators of individuals' knowledge-sharing behaviour in organisations from diverse perspectives (e.g. organisational behaviour, sociology and psychology), individuals still seem inclined to hoard their knowledge, rather than share it with others in organisations. To this end, this research aims to investigate and identify essential elements related to individuals' knowledge-sharing behaviour within the complex context of the virtual organisation of Taiwanese Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs), comprising the whole system of Taiwanese Farmers' Associations, by integrating multilevel perspectives of individuals in organisations (the micro-level), workplace networks in organisations (the meso-level) and organisational culture (the macro-level).

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Kwon, Kyung-Joon. "The role of knowledge share, satisfaction, social commerce usage experience on smart mobile device users' purchase intentions : evidence from South Korean consumers." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2018. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/q5521/the-role-of-knowledge-share-satisfaction-social-commerce-usage-experience-on-smart-mobile-device-user-s-purchase-intentions-evidence-from-south-korean-consumers.

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This thesis analyses the factors that contribute to consumers’ intention to make online purchases via smart mobile devices. To examine consumers’ purchase intentions, frameworks described in the marketing and information system literatures were integrated, and a theoretical framework was then proposed. In total, 498 Korean consumers were recruited to participate in the study, and structural equation modelling was used to examine the proposed model. The results confirm that (1) consumers’ mobile commerce usage experience positively influences their usage experience with social commerce sites, their satisfaction toward social commerce sites, and their intentions to share knowledge; (2) usage experience with social commerce sites has a significant impact on consumers’ intention to purchase; (3) satisfaction toward social commerce sites has a positive influence on consumers’ intention to purchase; and (4) consumers’ intention to share knowledge positively influences their intention to purchase. Implications are drawn for both academics and practitioners, providing directions for future research.

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Attoff, Tove. "Encouraging knowledge sharing in a web- based platform : A study concerning how to encourage engineers to share knowledge in a web-based platform for knowledge sharing and to use the platform as a tool for measuring the performance of work procedures." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170451.

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A design department in the company Sandvik AB in Kista, Stockholm, has built a web-based platform for knowledge sharing that allows the employees to share knowledge, regardless of their role and position in the hierarchical structure of the organization. The web-based platform gathers disseminated information and provides a way of finding needed information in an easy way and thus enables increasing productivity and efficiency of the employees. The purpose of the research was to find out what the potential users find encouraging and motivating in order to use a web-based platform for knowledge sharing and a functionality for performance measurement. Compared to what technically is possible today, there is lack of transparency in the company. The knowledge that exists within the company is dispersed and difficult to access for the employees in the organization. By gathering the knowledge and information and enabling the employees to share knowledge, they could potentially increase their performance of work assignments. The problem that this report addresses is that currently there are not good enough ways of measuring and keeping track of the performance of work assignments or routines in some departments in the company. The qualitative method of semi-structured interviews has been used for gathering data in this research. The data have been analyzed with the method of content analysis. The result of the research is that there are several aspects that need to be considered when encouraging and motivating users to share knowledge in a web-based platform for knowledge sharing and to use it as a tool for performance measurement. The main aspects identified in this research are corporate culture, choice of performance measures, managers’ responsibility, visibility and usage of the performance data and availability of the web-based platform. These aspects concern the attitude of the company and how to encourage and motivate the users to want to use the web-based platform.

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Magoula, Anastasia, and Giovanni Benevento. "An approach to collect and share Lessons Learned in order to improve Knowledge transfer across New Product Development projects : A case study in a Swedish company." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Industriell organisation och produktion, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21473.

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This thesis examines the state of reporting Lessons Learned in a Swedish company that operates globally and explores the areas of potential improvements through better classification and reporting of Lessons Learned from previous projects. Particularly, it explores which the most effective ways to capture and document Lessons Learned are as well as how a System that supports efficient storage, sharing and retrieval of Lessons Learned can be specified. The research is a case study in a Swedish company and is a mixed-model research as it uses both quantitative and qualitative data from primary sources. Indeed, the data collection was done via interviews, questionnaires, a focus group and the study of the company’s documents. The findings revealed some issues in the Lessons Learned methods used in the company, especially in documentation. Additionally, the need for a Lessons Learned System to manage the knowledge and experience from projects was also identified. The thesis concludes with explicit answers to the research questions and more specific with the suggestion of certain guidelines for the employees, a new template for reporting Lessons Learned and the specifications of a Lessons Learned System that can support efficient storage, sharing and retrieval of Lessons Learned.

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Erdem, Ibrahim Aykut. "Category Knowledge, Skeleton-based Shape Matching And Shape Classification." Phd thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610118/index.pdf.

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Skeletal shape representations, in spite of their structural instabilities, have proven themselves as effective representation schemes for recognition and classification of visual shapes. They capture part structure in a compact and natural way and provide insensitivity to visual transformations such as occlusion and articulation of parts. In this thesis, we explore the potential use of disconnected skeleton representation for shape recognition and shape classification. Specifically, we first investigate the importance of contextual information in recognition where we extend the previously proposed disconnected skeleton based shape matching methods in different ways by incorporating category knowledge into matching process. Unlike the view in syntactic matching of shapes, our interpretation differentiates the semantic roles of the shapes in comparison in a way that a query shape is being matched with a database shape whose category is known a priori. The presence of context, i.e. the knowledge about the category of the database shape, influences the similarity computations, and helps us to obtain better matching performance. Next, we build upon our category-influenced matching framework in which both shapes and shape categories are represented with depth-1 skeletal trees, and develop a similarity-based shape classification method where the category trees formed for each shape category provide a reference set for learning the relationships between categories. As our classification method takes into account both within-category and between-category information, we attain high classification performance. Moreover, using the suggested classification scheme in a retrieval task improves both the efficiency and accuracy of matching by eliminating unrelated comparisons.

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Djerf, Farangis. "Kommunikation och samspel i språkutvecklande undervisning ur ett flerspråkigt perspektiv." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34964.

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AbstractThe purpose of the present study is to find out how three high school teachers with different subject skills use interaction and interplay in their teaching. The main part of the study is based on observations of six different class sessions in history, religion, Swedish as a second language and regular Swedish. The study also includes interviews with the sessions’ corresponding teachers. The final analysis focuses on the forms of teaching, where the focus is on interaction and interplay, as well as multimodality in teaching contexts. The result is compared to the Läslyftet modules that relate to interaction and interplay, and also multimodality for the purpose of language development. The results show which interactive and multimodal strategies are used when interacting with students. Furthermore, the results show interest and commitment, as well as learning potential, potential support by applying explanations, clarifications, discussions, conversations, the Think-Pair-Share model part and the Initiate-Response-Feedback pattern (IRF) to enable students to reformulate to written language style and recontextualize their responses. In this way, knowledge and language development have been made visible in ongoing teaching.

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Prisacariu, Victor Adrian. "Shape knowledge for segmentation and tracking." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:68dd7205-219a-45e1-830d-f55e530ed8aa.

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The aim of this thesis is to provide methods for 2D segmentation and 2D/3D tracking, that are both fast and robust to imperfect image information, as caused for example by occlusions, motion blur and cluttered background. We do this by combining high level shape information with simultaneous segmentation and tracking. We base our work on the assumption that the space of possible 2D object shapes can be either generated by projecting down known rigid 3D shapes or learned from 2D shape examples. We minimise the discrimination between statistical foreground and background appearance models with respect to the parameters governing the shape generative process (the 6 degree-of-freedom 3D pose of the 3D shape or the parameters of the learned space). The foreground region is delineated by the zero level set of a signed distance function, and we define an energy over this region and its immediate background surroundings based on pixel-wise posterior membership probabilities. We obtain the differentials of this energy with respect to the parameters governing shape and conduct searches for the correct shape using standard non-linear minimisation techniques. This methodology first leads to a novel rigid 3D object tracker. For a known 3D shape, our optimisation here aims to find the 3D pose that leads to the 2D projection that best segments a given image. We extend our approach to track multiple objects from multiple views and propose novel enhancements at the pixel level based on temporal consistency. Finally, owing to the per pixel nature of much of the algorithm, we support our theoretical approach with a real-time GPU based implementation. We next use our rigid 3D tracker in two applications: (i) a driver assistance system, where the tracker is augmented with 2D traffic sign detections, which, unlike previous work, allows for the relevance of the traffic signs to the driver to be gauged and (ii) a robust, real time 3D hand tracker that uses data from an off-the-shelf accelerometer and articulated pose classification results from a multiclass SVM classifier. Finally, we explore deformable 2D/3D object tracking. Unlike previous works, we use a non-linear and probabilistic dimensionality reduction, called Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models, to learn spaces of shape. Segmentation becomes a minimisation of an image-driven energy function in the learned space. We can represent both 2D and 3D shapes which we compress with Fourier-based transforms, to keep inference tractable. We extend this method by learning joint shape-parameter spaces, which, novel to the literature, enable simultaneous segmentation and generic parameter recovery. These can describe anything from 3D articulated pose to eye gaze. We also propose two novel extensions to standard GP-LVM: a method to explore the multimodality in the joint space efficiently, by learning a mapping from the latent space to a space that encodes the similarity between shapes and a method for obtaining faster convergence and greater accuracy by use of a hierarchy of latent embeddings.

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Alves, Luiz Ernesto Fonseca. "O Compartilhamento do conhecimento nas organizações: um estudo desconstrucionista." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3877.

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Organizations have shown a speech focused on Knowledge Management and share of knowledge that reveal the relevance of both the age of knowledge and the capture and transference of individual and colective knowledge. Due to its continued repetition, the speech has been legitimated, not establishing, however, what can be shared, which methods shall provide it and which personal and corporate reasons can stimulate sharing the knowledge. This speech tries to convince that the implementation depends exclusively on the actions promoted by the firm. It also admits the presence of necessary environment conditions to make share of knowledge possible. The speech makes one believe that individuals and teams, formal or informal, are prepared and desire to share their knowledge, not considering feelings, wishes or availability to do so. The research has revealed the difficulty of sharing knowledge within service companies, which are strongly results oriented, due to the competition among employees in order to catch better jobs, the fight to retain power and the lack of time to develop daily tasks. Such organizations prevent people from the desire and the availability to share knowledge.
Existe um discurso dominante nas organizações a respeito da Gestão do Conhecimento e do compartilhamento do conhecimento que afirma a existência de uma era do conhecimento e que assevera a importância da captura e disponibilização do conhecimento individual e coletivo. Trata-se de um discurso que, de tão repetido, revestiu-se de legitimidade, não tendo evidenciado, contudo, o que pode ser compartilhado, que métodos garantem o compartilhamento, e os motivos, pessoais e empresariais, que podem incentivá-lo. Este discurso faz crer ser esta uma disciplina cuja implementação depende unicamente da efetividade das ações conduzidas pela empresa. Admite, igualmente, que as condições ambientais necessárias ao compartilhamento do conhecimento estão presentes. O discurso parte da premissa de que as pessoas, equipes e grupos, formais e informais, estão preparados e desejosos por compartilharem seu conhecimento, desconsiderando os seus sentimentos e sua vontade ou disponibilidade para tanto. A pesquisa, contudo, revelou a dificuldade para o compartilhamento do conhecimento em organizações prestadoras de serviços fortemente orientadas para resultados, pois as condições de trabalho em organizações deste tipo são pautadas por uma competição interna ferrenha na luta pelos melhores cargos e funções, pela disputa de poder e pela escassez de tempo para o desenvolvimento das atribuições básicas dos cargos. Nestas organizações, em geral, os indivíduos não encontram vontade nem disponibilidade para compartilhar conhecimento.

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Palonen, Tuire. "Shared knowledge and the web of relationships /." Turku : Turun yliopisto, 2003. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017748367&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Cremers, Daniel. "Statistical shape knowledge in variational image segmentation." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB10605028.

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McDougall, Daniel. "Knowledge flows in knowledge management : an examination in an HR shared services environment." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631237.

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This I doctoral thesis examines a specific aspect of Knowledge Management (KM). This is knowledge sharing and the knowledge relationships that exist in knowledge flows through processes in organisations. It focuses on cultural influences on knowledge flows through knowledge coordinating mechanisms. This study is conducted through qualitative methods. The study involves immersion and snow ball sampling interviews to uncover the forms, perceptions and cultural factors influencing the operation of knowledge flows. The interpretive approach makes possible a deeper examination of perceptions of knowledge on the operation of a process from the perspective of those involved, and their perceptions of the other agents involved. Human Resources (HR) Shared Services are a means to address concerns surrounding qUality and cost in transactional oriented HR services. This study compares internal HR Shared Services and externally outsourced models. They are currently one of the most lucrative and popular means of outsourcing aspects of the firm. As a process they incorporate a broad range of knowledge flows that can be considered as reasonably stand alone. The hierarchical construction of HR Shared Services makes them representative of many processes within organisations from which generalisations can be drawn. This study argues in favour of KM being applicable to hierarchically oriented organisations and not just suitable for specific knowledge focused organisations. Knowledge flows are seen as the means for organisations to focus their corporate cultures to facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange. In this case it provides more relevant HR advice through better use of resources and improves the quality of the prOduct. It facilitates sustained competitive advantage in the use of combining resources of organisations in unique ways. It builds on a theoretical foundation of Cultural means of coordinating knowledge and by considering perceptions of agents in knowledge studies. It also considers how conflicts can be resolved and the issue of knowledge hierarchies.

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Saund, Eric. "The Role of Knowledge in Visual Shape Representation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6833.

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This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are placed on a Scale-Space Blackboard, (2) Dimensionality-reduction captures deformation classes in configurations of tokens. Knowledge lies in the token types and deformation classes tailored to the constraints and regularities ofparticular shape worlds. A hierarchical shape vocabulary has been implemented supporting several later visual tasks in the two-dimensional shape domain of the dorsal fins of fishes.

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Laval, Ernesto. "Shared construction of knowledge through electronic mail communication." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268712.

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Funk, Eugen. "A knowledge integration framework for 3D shape reconstruction." Thesis, Open University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702419.

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The modern emergence of automation in many industries has given impetus to extensive research into mobile robotics. Novel perception technologies now enable cars to drive autonomously, tractors to till a field automatically and underwater robots to construct pipelines. An essential requirement to facilitate both perception and autonomous navigation is the analysis of the 3D environment using sensors like laser scanners or stereo cameras. 3D sensors generate a very large number of 3D data points in sampling object shapes within an environment, but crucially do not provide any intrinsic information about the environment in which the robots operate with. This means unstructured 3D samples must be processed by application-specific models to enable a robot , for instance, to detect and identify objects and infer the scene geometry for path-planning more efficiently than by using raw 3D data. This thesis specifically focuses on the fundamental task of 3D shape reconstruction and modelling by presenting a new knowledge integration framework for unstructured 3D samples. The novelty lies in the representation of surfaces by algebraic functions with limited support, which enables the extraction of smooth consistent shapes from noisy samples with a heterogeneous density. Moreover, many surfaces in urban environments can reasonably be assumed to be planar, and the framework exploits this knowledge to enable effective noise suppression without loss of detail. This is achieved by using a convex optimization technique which has linear computational complexity. Thus is much more efficient than existing solutions. The new framework has been validated by critical experimental analysis and evaluation and has been shown to increase the accuracy of the reconstructed shape significantly compared to state-of-the-art methods. Applying this new knowledge integration framework means that less accurate, low-cost 3D sensors can be employed without sacrificing the high demands that 3D perception must achieve. This links well into the area of robotic inspection, as for example regarding small drones that use inaccurate and lightweight image sensors.

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Ferguson, Rebecca. "The construction of shared knowledge through asynchronous dialogue." Thesis, Open University, 2009. http://oro.open.ac.uk/19908/.

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This thesis investigates how groups of learners use asynchronous dialogue to build shared knowledge together over time. To do this, it takes a sociocultural approach, with a situated focus on learners' social and temporal settings as well as on the tools they employ. It utilises concepts developed to support understanding of knowledge co-construction in face- to-face environments, particularly the social modes of thinking identified by Mercer and his colleagues (Mercer, 1995, 2000, 2002; Mercer & Littleton, 2007; Mercer & Wegerif, 1999) and the improvable objects described by Wells (1999). Analysis shows that, over short periods of time, groups of learners construct shared vocabulary, history and understanding slowly through the use of a series of discursive devices including those identified here as 'constructive synthesis', the 'proposal pattern' and 'powerful synthesis'. Over longer periods they may engage in 'attached dialogue', a form of asynchronous dialogue that is mediated by improvable objects. The development of these improvable objects involves learners engaging in exploratory dialogue that builds into progressive discourse, a coordinated form of co-reasoning in language. While doing this, they actively work to avoid unproductive interaction by consistently shifting responsibility from the individual to the group. Previous studies have suggested that asynchronous dialogue may act to limit learners to cumulative exchanges (Littleton & Whitelock, 2005; Wegerif, 1998). The analysis over time presented here shows that asynchronous exchanges are enriched by the use of textual affordances that are not available in speech. In the case of attached dialogue, groups of learners are prompted to share knowledge, challenge ideas, justify opinions, evaluate evidence and consider options in a reasoned and equitable way. They do this more successfully when their co-construction of knowledge is not solely task-focused but also focuses on tool use and on the development of social knowledge about the group.

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Wang, Minjuan. "The construction of shared knowledge in an internet-based shared environment for expeditions (iexpeditions) : a study of external factors implying knowledge construction /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3013041.

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Ellis, Sue. "The shifting shape of useful knowledge in literacy teaching." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607444.

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This submission for a PhD explores some of the paradigms of literacy research, and how teachers are positioned to use the knowledge generated to inform literacy education in schools. It draws on the candidate's published work from specific intervention and research projects to examine. on one hand, how a variety of research paradigms position teachers and teaching in relation to evidence based practice, and on the other, how Scottish teachers are professionalized to attend empirical evidence. It highlights how the class of rhetorical traditions creates a theory-practice divide which teachers are not well-placed to negotiate. Recasting educational theory to develop and empirical evidence base to ground the theorization of teachers' classroom work would help promote evidence-informed decisions and about literacy curriculum design and teaching.

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李秀麗 and Sau-lai Lee. "Communication and shared representation: the role of knowledge estimation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31243277.

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Lee, Sau-lai. "Communication and shared representation : the role of knowledge estimation /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B24729632.

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Muller, Anna Magdalena. "Shared knowledge and the formal housing process in Namibia." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3151.

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This study investigates issues related to housing in the period immediately preceding Namibia's independence in 1990. A formal housing process was inherited from the colonial era and during the decade before independence, this process became the one that was applied to provide housing for low-income people. Indigenous Namibians were excluded from decision making and participating in their own housing process in the municipal areas. Policies of apartheid maintained cultural distances and contributed to a condition of lack of shared knowledge concerning the formal housing process. To solve the housing problem, an increased role by low-income people in the housing process is emphasised by international agencies, as well as the new Namibian government through its National Housing Policy and the housing strategy. In the context of policy and strategy proposals based on this emphasis, lack of shared knowledge is identified as the research problem for this thesis. This follows from the argument that shared knowledge is important to enable people to take actions in solving their own housing problems. This lack of shared knowledge is investigated through aspects of the formal housing process dealing with the commercialisation of housing and the creation of the domestic environment. The research is done by using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, which include fieldwork in various urban areas in Namibia. It was determined that a limited awareness concerning certain financial and contractual aspects exists among house buyers. On the other hand, the domestic environment designs are based on principles of 'closed domesticated environments' for nuclear family and 'suburbs' for domestic purposes only, which do not reflect the way of life of the people occupying the houses. This is illustrated by an in-depth comparison of the socio-spatial characteristics of domestic environments designed on these principles, with those inhabited and created by the inhabitants themselves. To conclude, proposals are made in context of housing developments after independence. It is proposed that increased participation by low-income people can only overcome this lack of shared knowledge, if the housing process is made more accessible to people. An accessible process also has to be developed in partnership with people in need of shelter.

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Lefebvre, Haidee. "B-boy (dance) cipher: an innovative knowledge community's shared activity." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106265.

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My study focuses on b-boying, the archetype of hiphop dance, to better understand the informal teaching and learning processes embodied in the freestyle or raw b-boy cipher (improvisational dance circle). I draw from an ethnographic approach to investigate how hiphop aesthetic practices influence people's ways of doing and habits of mind. In particular, participant observation structures my activities at 13 hiphop events. These observations are complemented by an in-depth interview with Buddha, co-founder of the Canadian Floor Masters, Canada's oldest b-boy dance crew. The theoretical framework uses Lave and Wenger's concept of situated learning in tandem with Nonaka's organizational theory of knowledge creation. By analyzing the cipher as a potential site for dancers to experience a conscious readiness to change I find that 1) situated learning and knowledge creation are closely related; 2) knowledge creation and hiphop practices are connected; 3) b-boy culture resembles an innovative knowledge community that shares personal knowledge to create and advance communal knowledge. The research approach I practice may help educators better understand how a neighbourhood activity created over 30 years ago by and for some South Bronx youth has developed into a global practice produced and consumed by many of today's youth and adults.
Mon étude porte sur le b-boying (break boy, danseur), archétype de la danse hip-hop, pour dégager l'enseignement et les procédés d'apprentissage informels inhérents aux cercles de danse improvisée – création libre (freestyle ou raw cipher). Ma méthodologie intègre certains aspects d'observation participante selon la trajectoire de recherche s'intéressant à l'influence des pratiques hip-hop sur les façons de faire et de penser. Ceci oriente mon observation participante de 13 événements et mon entrevue en profondeur avec Buddha, de la plus ancienne troupe de breaking du Canada, Canadian Floor Masters. Mon cadre théorique s'appuie sur l'apprentissage situé de Lave et Wenger, et la création du savoir de Nonaka. J'analyse le cercle de danse comme lieu permettant de s'ouvrir consciemment au changement, constatant que : 1) il existe une corrélation entre l'apprentissage situé et la création du savoir; 2) la création du savoir et les pratiques hip-hop sont interreliées; 3) la culture b-boy évoque une communauté de savoir novatrice partageant des connaissances personnelles pour générer et faire progresser un savoir collectif. Mon approche aiderait les éducateurs à mieux comprendre comment cette activité de quartier créée il y a trente ans, par et pour des jeunes du South Bronx, s'est transformée en pratique réalisée et consommée à l'échelle du globe par les jeunes et les adultes contemporains.

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Saad, Susan M. "A knowledge-based fair-share scheduler." 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/23753.

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Hou, Chia-Chang, and 侯嘉昌. "Pressure Relief and Knowledge Workers' Effort to Share Knowledge via Blogs." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67075336777975528618.

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大同大學
資訊經營學系(所)
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Globalization makes the management steps of enterprises become faster and faster. To keep and promote the competitiveness, take care of the high-quality employee and help them advancement is the basic to maintain the business. But, to these knowledge workers in enterprises, faster working speed and exchanging information make them think that they are lack of knowledge and nervous. It may cause tensely, anxiously, agitatedly, leave office with the harmful effects of closing oneself when working pressure and lack of knowledge makes their negative emotion over loaded. In age of Web2.0, with the characteristic of the network made Blog become to one of best choose which personal recording, search information and sharing experience for personal and group. Knowledge workers use the important digitize medium that carry huge contents of digital to discuss with knowledge and relieve stress. The research made a analyzed of documents first and then executing methods of investigate research, classify the tester in to four groups which active sharing, extend sharing, develop sharing and passive sharing by Blog interaction and involution. All group had positive effect in pressure relief which in Blog interaction, involution, mind adjust and personal speciality that analysis by linear regression. We found an argument that the active group shows negative relation between the Blog interaction and involution. It is explain that knowledge workers too much involve things of Blog may cause a negative effect on work. And in pressure relief effect, personality traits type A is better than type B. The result provide a reference which negative effect on pressure relief by understanding the tendency of using Blog and avoided employee excessive involving Blog. Let the industry understand the feasibility and benefit of helping the staff to solve the pressure by Blog and to avoid causing the work to be languid.

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Jao, I.-Ping, and 饒翊平. "Personality and Intention to Share Knowledge Online/Offline." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07258638565014931148.

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國立成功大學
企業管理學系碩博士班
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Previous studies have investigated motivations for knowledge sharing. No study was found to address the role of personality in knowledge sharing, both in the online and offline contexts. This study thus investigated the relationships between personality traits and intentions to share knowledge online and offline. The sample comprised 265 Bulletin Board System (BBS) users. Among them, 51.3% were male and 66.9% were aged below 24 years. Analytical results indicated that agreeableness was positively related to intention to share knowledge both online and offline. Impulsiveness was positively related to intention to share knowledge online, while need for achievement was positively related to intention to share knowledge offline.

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Chang, Chun Chieh, and 張鈞傑. "Factors of Continuing Knowledge Share in e-Learning." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45161472287945190594.

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國立高雄師範大學
資訊教育研究所
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Previous research suggests that an eventual information technology (IT) success depend on both its initial acceptance and subsequent continued usage. Expectancy disconfirmation theory (EDT) has been successfully used to predict users’ intention to continue using information technologies. This study proposed a decomposed EDT and equity theory model to examine cognitive beliefs and affect that influence users’ continuance decision in the context of e-learning service. The proposed model extended EDT by decomposing the perceived performance component into usability, quality, and value. The equity theory by decomposing distributional justice and procedural justice Research hypotheses derived from this model anrm empirically validated using the responses to a survey on e-learning usage among 319 users. The results suggest that users’ continuance intention is determined by satisfaction , which in turn is jonitly determined by percived usability, perceived quality, perceived value, and usability disconfirmation.

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Gallagher, Marlene. "Anishinaabe Elders share stories on their perceptions about Anishinaabe identity for school success." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22149.

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The purpose of this study was to examine Anishinaabe identity development for school success. A group of six Elder’s, also known as Knowledge Keepers shared their life experiences that are integral to Mino Pimatisiwin – a good way of life for Anishinaabe people. The Elders that participated in this study are gifted with Indigenous knowledge in language, history, culture and a connection to the land/community. At a personal level and as an Anishinaabe person, this study was significant to me because my life foundation was embedded in an Anishinaabe worldview from birth. Dibaajimowin or storytelling was a big part of the learning process therefore; I utilized an Indigenous methodology of Dibaajimowin to share the stories of the Elders, which demonstrated a positive worldview, with meaningful exemplars despite the negative experience of attending residential school and government policies. The stories, which reflected cultural practices of the Anishinaabe Elders, provided lessons about the past and present, and insight into the future direction needed in education to support Aboriginal students. This study revealed the importance of the interconnected relationships of family, community and the environment, as key elements in developing cultural identity. The Elders also identified that balance is needed for Mino-Pimatisiwin known as a good life to live in the realm of two worlds (Anishinaabe and Western). This ideal needs to be extended into the classroom and school so the teachers can build upon the interconnected relationships through program planning and creating an engaging environment that validates an Aboriginal worldview

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Huang, Hui-Yi, and 黃慧怡. "Why People Share Knowledge in Virtual Communities? ─ Use YAHOO! Kimo Knowledge+ as an Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37639099100565149582.

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國立清華大學
服務科學研究所
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Through the developing of Internet, more and more users are used to seek knowledge on it. The knowledge need people to share them on the internet. Therefore, why the “people” do like to share, become a very interesting issue. In Taiwan, the most famous Q&A website is Yahoo! Kimo Knowledge+ (thereafter, denoted as Knowledge+.) Google launched a Q&A website called Google Answers on 2002, and it was closed on 2006. What reason to make this result (One survive and one decay)? In this study, we focus on Knowledge+. At the beginning, we spent three months to observe on 10 users who reached the highest rank of Knowledge+, and we then interviewed with three of them. In this research, we focus on the higher level sharing people. We adapted Theory of Reasoned Action. In the reward way, Knowledge+ uses virtual reward whereas Google Answers used monetary awards. In expert identification, everyone can share on Knowledge+ whereas Google will identify the expert before they have the right to share. From the different, we add “Reward” and “Self-efficacy” as our constructs. On the other hand, we also think about the personality and the virtual community feature of Knowledge+ and add “Altruism” and “the Sense of virtual Community.” We received 167 available responses, and also analysis them by different ranks. According to the result, we conclude that for higher level sharer, they need emotional attachment rather than physical reward whereas the lower level sharer will motivate by physical reward. Secondly, the higher sharers do not like to feel control; they share because they are willing to rather than other reasons or motivates. For all these sharers, altruism is a factor that influence share or not.

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Lin, Yu-Chun, and 林育群. "Why share knowledge? Developing a model for knowledge transfer and the role of motivation." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84720040005443173776.

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淡江大學
資訊管理學系碩士班
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The knowledge-sharing issue has become an important topic in the business organization when they face the era of knowledge economics. The main purpose of our research is to analyze knowledge-sharing behavior by integrating “Psychology Contract” and “Hierarchical Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation.” In our sample, 211 knowledge workers who often use IT to share their knowledge of daily work with their colleagues were included. There are three major conclusions being produced by our study. First, commitment and motivation are two important factors that would affect knowledge-sharing behavior. We find that there has a big difference between the knowledge-sharing behaviors caused by the two factors. Knowledge-sharing behavior would be influenced more when they are caused by motivation than those caused by commitment. Second, motivation won’t be affected directly by commitment in our study, only if the needs were being motivated, commitment would produce significant impact on motivation. Third, motivation would be influenced directly by needs of employee toward knowledge-sharing behavior, furthermore, needs of autonomy and relatedness influence motivation more than needs of competence. 　 Our study has three main contributions. First, the hypothesis of the Hierarchical Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation (HMIEM) that could be used to promote knowledge-sharing behavior in organization has been proved. Second, we suggest that organization can efficiently promote their knowledge-sharing behavior by exploiting the traits of conformity and needs to design a knowledge-sharing mechanism. Third, the result of commitment won’t have direct influence on motivation as the model of the psychological contract said was finding by our study. Therefore, knowledge won’t be shared directly by staff as organization expected, organization should find someway to intrigue the needs of employee toward knowledge-sharing behavior before asking them to share their knowledge.

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Chung, Shih-Ying, and 鐘詩瑩. "Why Do People Share Knowledge On Line?－Using “Yahoo!Kimo Knowledge+” As An Example." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92648031563951540316.

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大葉大學
資訊管理學系碩士在職專班
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Not only pervasive worldwide in use today, but also not restricted by the space-time continuum, the internet has a far-reaching effect in our daily modern life. The essential ground for the internet to be the successful knowledge sharing platform, in particular, has piqued our great interests to probe deeply into it. However, the previous studies on the knowledge sharing were virtually lying in a somewhat limited domain, such as the knowledge management in the organization behavior, rather than in an open-structured system as the internet. This study is based on the theory of Knowledge Transaction Market and the TAM model, surveying the users of the “Yahoo! Kimo Knowledge+”. Through the questionnaire on the website, we effectively collect the data from 332 users, and literally analyze the cognitive factors that influence the willingness of people to share the knowledge on the internet by means of SPSS for Pearson’s Correlation, Multiple Regression analysis. The results of our study find that the main incentives for people to do knowledge sharing lie in both extrinsic motivators (eg. substantial rewarding, and usefulness), and intrinsic motivators (eg. practicability, altruism, mutualism, and trust). The conclusion of this paper and the purport in management should provide informative reference for further academic research and practical applications.

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陳世明. "Knowledge Share with the Performance of Innovation– Transaction Cost Perspective." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63525708089621498989.

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長榮管理學院
經營管理研究所
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With the age of knowledge economy, the kernel technology and function of each industry is used to construct a strategic industry structure. The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) of Taiwan indicates that the spread of globe knowledge is to contribute to the knowledge innovation, knowledge progress and productivity in the world. In recently studies of Knowledge Management (KM) are divided into two major streams. One is information sect and another is behavioral sect. On the contrary, the majority of KM systems in the enterprise perform information coding, storing, and flowing. As Devenport & Prusak (1998); Sarvary (1999) emphasize, “Without the perfectible governance machine, even the best information system still were not able to enhances the system to effect it shall be.” This research will focus on the factor that the organization member exchange and share their experiments and knowledge with each other. The main problem of the inefficient knowledge transaction market formed by the knowledge supplier and knowledge demander can be found from the transaction cost theory point of view. Finally, technology innovation performance and new product development performance are used to evaluate the R&D innovation performance of the R&D department in order to realize the relationship between the behavior of knowledge sharing of the R&D members and the R&D innovation performance of organization. By these results, forming a culture or behavior of knowledge sharing can be achieved. Keywords：Knowledge Sharing, Transaction Cost Theory, Knowledge Transaction Market, Uniquely Know-How, Knowledge Uncertainty, Interactive Elements.

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Wang, Chin-cheng, and 汪金城. "A Research of Knowledge Share Mechanism in Research and Development Institution." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51138249619760536309.

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Chao, Ming-Feng, and 趙銘鳳. "The Study of Sharing Willingness and Share Model of Tacit Knowledge." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09802066638043090751.

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碩士
靜宜大學
管理碩士在職專班
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Tacit knowledge is hidden in the individual mind, hard to be explicit expressed but easy to lose with the turnover of the employee. However, it’s the key indicator to predict business success of the future. Therefore, to manage the tacit knowledge and to develop the effectiveness in an organization will be the key to lead the business success. Based on documentary analysis, this study summarized that organizational culture, trust, and motivations are the key factors to affect the willingness of tacit knowledge sharing and the employees could share tacit knowledge with others through communication and cooperation models. This study is based on semi-structured depth interviews of the qualitative research. Five senior, professional and with more than ten years working experienced staff are interviewed for the willingness of tacit knowledge sharing and share model analysis. The study results are as follows. 1. The organizational culture, trust, motivations will affect the willingness to share tacit knowledge. 2. Communication and cooperation model can make tacit knowledge become externalized. 3. To preserve the complete work instructions and shop floor operation record are the main conservation mechanism for the establishment of tacit knowledge. While the business promotes the sharing of tacit knowledge, it shall be focus on sharing willing among the employees. The business will increase knowledge assets by means of communication, cooperation and then have to establish the conservation mechanism for tacit knowledge. This will help to overcome the crisis upon the loss of the knowledge and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.

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TSAO, YA-HSUAN, and 曹亞璇. "What makes players Share Knowledge within games? – A study on Knowledge Sharing intentions among MMORPG game players." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88f7ae.

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國立中央大學
資訊管理學系
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This study investigates the reasons why players are willing or unwilling to share knowledge in massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPG? Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, TPB, this study explores the motivation of knowledge sharing intentions among players in games. Self-efficacy and social value orientation are identified as moderators. The motivation of knowledge sharing includes altruism, need for achievement, expected rewards, expected contributions, and expected relationship. The subjective norm of TPB is instead of the behavioral norm which is combined with the injunctive norm and the descriptive norm. Self-efficacy is substituted for the perceived behavioral control in TPB. This study carried out a web-based questionnaire, and collected valid data from 235 respondents, out of a total of 273 samples. Results analyzed with PLS reveal three findings as follows. First, on motivation of knowledge sharing, altruism and expected relationship have positive effects on attitude of knowledge sharing, while need for achievement has significant but negative effect on attitude of knowledge sharing. Second, behavioral norm have positive effects on both attitude and intention of knowledge sharing. Attitude of knowledge sharing, social value orientation and self-efficacy have positive effects on intention of knowledge sharing. Third, on moderating effects, self-efficacy is found to moderate the relationship between attitude of knowledge sharing and intention of knowledge sharing.

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