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Margo Michell Riddle-Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The value of knowledge management and the role it plays is increasingly being acknowledged by higher education, ensuring a cohesive approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating, retrieving, and sharing an institution's informational assets. The problem addressed by this case study was that many higher education institutions face challenges…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Management, Barriers, Sharing Behavior
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Ike, Ruby N.; Agbaeze, Emmanuel K.; Udoh, Ben E.; Adeleke, Bamidele S. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This study examined the challenges associated with knowledge management implementation and academic staff retention in selected tertiary institutions in South East, Nigeria. The research design adopted was a cross-sectional survey design. The main instrument used for data collection was questionnaire. The population consisted of 7,423 academic…
Descriptors: Barriers, Knowledge Management, Case Studies, College Faculty
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Lee, Jongwook; Burnett, Gary; Vandegrift, Micah; Baeg, Jung Hoon; Morris, Richard – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository makes papers available and accessible on the open Web by using 170 journal articles housed in DigiNole Commons, the institutional repository at Florida State University. Method: To analyse the repository's impact on availability and accessibility, we conducted…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Journal Articles, Academic Libraries, Access to Information
Mitchell, Susan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Uncontrollable costs, schedule overruns, and poor end product quality continue to plague the software engineering field. Innovations formulated with the expectation to minimize or eliminate cost, schedule, and quality problems have generally fallen into one of three categories: programming paradigms, software tools, and software process…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Knowledge Management
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Griffiths, Paul; Arenas, Teresita – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
This study re-visits an organisation that defined its knowledge-management strategy in 2008-9 applying an established strategy-intellectual capital alignment framework. It addresses questions "How has knowledge management evolved at ENTEL, and what lessons can be learnt? Does the strategy-knowledge management alignment framework applied at…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Web 2.0 Technologies, Alignment (Education), Models
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Ferguson, Morag – Industry and Higher Education, 2014
The importance to the economy of knowledge exchange between universities and industry has long been recognized, and in the UK a number of initiatives are in place to support such activities. These initiatives have helped to stimulate engagement between universities and the creative industries, a sector of increasing importance to the UK economy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Communication (Thought Transfer), School Business Relationship
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Tabaei, Sara; Schaffer, Yitzchak; McMurray, Gregory; Simon, Bashe – Public Services Quarterly, 2013
This case study shares the experience of building an in-house faculty publications database that was spearheaded by the Touro College and University System library in 2010. The project began with the intention of contributing to the college by collecting the research accomplishments of our faculty and staff, thereby also increasing library…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Role, Database Management Systems
Shirley J. Caruso – Online Submission, 2016
This single instrumental qualitative case study explores and thickly describes job performance outcomes based upon the manner in which self-directed learning activities of a purposefully selected sample of 3 construction managers are conducted, mediated by the use of Web 2.0 technology. The data collected revealed that construction managers are…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Independent Study, Job Performance
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Goodwill, Robyn J. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2012
Within the framework of the strategic journey undertaken between 2005 and 2010, this paper seeks to examine how the University of Melbourne sought to differentiate itself through the introduction and reconceptualisation of a "third stream" of academic work. Specifically, this paper seeks to investigate, through qualitative methods, how…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Communities of Practice, Technology Transfer, Barriers
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Blackman, Deborah; Phillips, Diane – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2011
This paper considers the concept of space and its role in both knowledge creation and overcoming knowledge stickiness. Aristotelian concepts of "freedom to" and "freedom from" are used to reconceptualise space. Informal and formal spaces, concepts and places are discussed as both specific locations and as gaps providing space for knowledge…
Descriptors: Freedom, Knowledge Level, Case Studies, Space Utilization
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Costello, Kristen; Del Bosque, Darcy – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
This case study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, University Libraries, which has one main library, three branches, and more than 110 staff, illustrates one approach to using new technologies as additional methods for internal communication. At large academic libraries, communication within the organization can be challenging. The…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Library Services
Harley, Diane; Acord, Sophia Krzys; Earl-Novell, Sarah; Lawrence, Shannon; King, C. Judson – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. This…
Descriptors: Political Science, Tenure, Research Methodology, Scholarship
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Gammelgaard, Jens – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2010
This article explores how Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) manages knowledge retrieval by employees when they need to access documents written by colleagues in geographically distant units. CSC's establishment of virtual communities of practice facilitates the coordination of knowledge, and minimises contextual gaps between senders and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Communities of Practice, Knowledge Management
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Manu, Christopher; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate how lessons learned from a case study of a construction project undertaken in the Pacific Islands relates to the interaction between social capital and knowledge transfer. The paper is reflective in nature focusing upon the experiences of one of the authors, being a Pacific Islander and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Capital, Construction Programs, Program Administration
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Sondergaard, Susanne; Kerr, Micky; Clegg, Chris – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to present the empirical findings from a case study in knowledge sharing with the aim of understanding knowledge sharing in a strategic context through a socio-technical approach. Design/methodology/approach: Knowledge sharing facilitators and barriers were examined in a UK owned multinational engineering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Shared Resources and Services, International Organizations
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