...Marek Deja Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the problem of information and knowledge management (IKM) in higher education institutions. The research aims to determine the way in which the knowledge resources of a higher education institution are managed. The author intends to define...

... is externalized, made persistent and shared by using semantic wikis. The definition of the framework has been derived from a case study on operational knowledge management. This framework revolves around interaction with actual users for both design and evaluation. The latter exploits usability tests based...

...Samuel Kai Wah Chu; Felix Siu; Michael Liang; Catherine M. Capio; Wendy W.Y. Wu Purpose This study aims to examine users’ experiences and perceptions associated with the use of two wiki variants in the context of collaborative learning and knowledge management in higher education. Design...

...Ana Maria R. Correia Edited by Minwir   Al‐Shammari . Knowledge Management in Emerging Economies: Social, Organizational and Cultural Implementation . Hershey, PA : IGI Global/Information Science Reference   2011 . 399 pp.   Price not reported (hard cover) , ISBN...

... there is only one chapter to a heading, which to this reviewer suggests a less than thorough understanding by the editors of how knowledge in knowledge management should be organised. It is not always clear how chapters are grouped, and mostly the grouping seems contrived; in Theoretical Foundations of KM...

.... Of the 171 questionnaires returned 169 were valid, yielding a useful response rate of 84.5 percent. The gender balance was almost even: 89 were female and 80 were male. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Technology acceptance Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology Knowledge...

... Publishing Limited 2011 --> Knowledge management Group work Internet Community behaviour Decision making Collaboration is becoming increasingly important. It is linked to communities of interest as well as knowledge management and exploitation of the internet. Collaborative Search...

... 22 undergraduate students from the Information Management Programme at the University of Hong Kong. All the students had used MediaWiki for the major project in their knowledge management course and Google Docs for their final year project. Questionnaires and semi‐structured telephone interviews were...

...: 9781615207978   Price not reported (hard cover) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Information networks Networking Cities Knowledge management Today more than 50 per cent of the global population lives in cities. The premise of this book is that cities are going through another...

...F J García‐Peñalvo; C G de Figuerola; J A Merlo; Francisco J. García‐Peñalvo; Carlos García de Figuerola; José A. Merlo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to open the special issue of Online Information Review on open knowledge management in higher education. Its aim is to review...

... by one university and its members in the promotion of open knowledge. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Open systems Knowledge management Higher education Database management systems Spain The gamble made by the University of Alicante (UA) (Spain) on the promotion...

... of organisational knowledge creation is applied to knowledge management in science (with the university as organisation). In a second step the resulting framework is used to describe influences of OA on the management of scientific knowledge. Findings OA accelerates the creation and widens the dissemination...

...F J García‐Peñalvo; C G de Figuerola; J A Merlo; Baozhen Lee; Shilun Ge Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the personalised and social characteristics of open knowledge management in higher education based on social tagging in the Web 2.0 environment. Design/methodology/approach...

... ability to choose appropriate search terms, which is a major factor in determining the efficacy of a search. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Knowledge management Hospitals Information systems Information retrieval The complexity of medical terminology is a major challenge...

...Ina Fourie Social and Political Implications of Data Mining is marketed as a premier reference source addressing knowledge management in e‐government. Under the guidance of Hakikur Rahman, 18 chapters are arranged in five sections. The sections cover the following: content and knowledge...

...: Marketing and Management on the Internet and Mobile Media . Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing   2008 . 309 pp.   £75.00 hard cover , ISBN: 9781847205681 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Internet Worldwide web Trust Risk assessment Knowledge management Social...

... --> Social interaction Internet Knowledge management Social software refers to a range of software that allows users to interact and share information, and has, understandably, become of increasing interest to a wide variety of different organisations as they look to increase learning and knowledge...

... examples. Findings Web 2.0 plays a multifaceted role for communicating, collaborating, sharing and managing knowledge. Web 2.0 enables a new model of personal knowledge management (PKM) that includes formal and informal communication, collaboration and social networking tools. This new PKM model...

...David Pauleen; David Pauleen Purpose The author aims to introduce this themed issue on personal knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach The author discusses some of the issues surrounding personal and organisational knowledge management, and then introduces the papers in this themed...

...David Pauleen; Rachel Jones Purpose The purpose of the paper is to emphasise the importance of a complex view of communication for the development of personal knowledge management (PKM) and for the technology that supports PKM. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper uses complex...