Knowledge Transfer

Competency assessment: Methods for development and implementation in nursing education

by Marla Smith

How Knowledge Assets are Transformed into Value: The Case of Knowledge Flows and Service Productivity

by Harri Laihonen

How Knowledge Assets are Transformed into Value: The Case of Knowledge Flows

by Harri Laihonen

Knowledge Flow Audit: Indentifying, Measuring and Managing

by Harri Laihonen

Knowledge Flow Audit

by Harri Laihonen

How Knowledge Assets are Transformed into Value

by Harri Laihonen

Venting, joining and educating: Motivations for knowledge sharing in the UK police blogosphere

by Simon Burnett

Published in Business Information Review 2012 29: 57

This article examines motivations for knowledge sharing in blogs written by police officers. It draws on the findings... more This article examines motivations for knowledge sharing in blogs written by police officers. It draws on the findings of a
research project completed in 2011 based on content analysis of 63 blogs.

How to make qualitative research more popular and public

by Phillip Vannini

Introductory chapter for the book published in 2012 by Peter Lang

See the book's website at: See the book's website at: http://www.popularizingresearch.net/

Presentación del Simposio internacional: Forum Gestión de la inmigración y la diversidad en Québec y Canadá

by Dan Rodríguez-García

Rodríguez García, D. (2011) "Introducción: Presentación del Forum", en Fòrum sobre la gestió de la immigració i la diversitat al Quebec i al Canadà. Barcelona: Departament de Benestar Social i Família, Direcció General per a la Immigració, Generalitat de Catalunya. Col•lecció Ciutadania i Immigració, número 7, pp. 9-30.
http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/bsf/01Departament/08Publicacions/Coleccions/Ciutadania%20i%20immigracio/08forumcanada/forum_canada.pdf

Introducción-Presentación del Simposio internacional: Forum Gestión de la inmigración y la diversidad en Québec y... more Introducción-Presentación del Simposio internacional: Forum Gestión de la inmigración y la diversidad en Québec y Canadá, celebrado en Barcelona en octubre de 2008.

The problem of transfer, and the sociocultural critique of schooling

by Martin Packer

Packer, M. (2001). The problem of transfer, and the sociocultural critique of schooling. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 10, 493-514.

Last Call for Papers "Raumwissen und Wissensräume"; Deadline 25-04-12

by Stefan Schreiber

Call for Papers: "Raumwissen und Wissensräume. Interdisziplinärer Theorie-Workshop für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen" des Lesezirkels der Cross Sectional Group V „Space and Collective Identities“ des Exzellenzclusters „Topoi. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations” vom 7.–9. August 2012 in Berlin

more info at: http://www.topoi.org/event/raumwissen-und-wissensraume/

The Public Body - Collections and Exhibitions of the German Hygiene-Museum in Central Europe in the 1920s

by Thomas Steller

Forthcoming 2013

During the Weimar Republic the German Hygiene-Museum in Dresden became a prominent place to make biomedical knowledge... more During the Weimar Republic the German Hygiene-Museum in Dresden became a prominent place to make biomedical knowledge public in Germany and abroad. I focus on the question as to which actor networks allowed the German Hygiene-Museum to function as a conduit for biomedical knowledge to Central Europe and through advanced visualization strategies to become a widely recognized and sought-after partner for doing health education afterwards. In Addition this paper addresses the importance of traveling health exhibitions and educational materials in Central Europe in the nineteen-twenties for the Museum.
Initially the wide range of the Museums activities all over Europe is sketched out. Then its cooperation with the League of Nations for the provision of teaching collections to nursing schools Poland and Russia is shown.
By presenting the Hygiene-Exhibition in Vienna in 1925 processes of negotiation and the competing (political) agendas of the city of Vienna, the state of Austria, the Museum and the Deutsches Reich are reconstructed. It is argued that hygienic knowledge in the 1920s was politically significant and thus contested.

Survey of neural transfer functions

by Wlodzislaw Duch

The understanding of the concept of 'rest'in the management of a sports concussion by physical therapy students: A descriptive study (article in press)

by Hopin Lee

S. John Sullivan, Sridhar Alla, Hopin Lee, Anthony G. Schneiders, Osman Hassan Ahmed, Paul R. McCrory

Physical Therapy in Sport

Objectives: To investigate physical therapy students' understanding of the concept of rest following a sport... more Objectives: To investigate physical therapy students' understanding of the concept of rest following a sport concussion and to ascertain if this understanding changes following a lecture based on current best practice concussion knowledge. Design: Pre-post observational survey. Setting: University classroom setting. Participants: A cohort of 118 (40 male, 78 female) physical therapy students participating in volunteer sports medic training. Results: Participants provided 320 (pre) and 350 (post) responses depicting activities which should be restricted following a concussion. The responses were classified into three rest-related categories: 'Physical rest', 'Cognitive rest' and 'Mixed' (a combination of physical and cognitive rest). Pre-lecture, approximately 74% of the student's responses were categorized as Physical rest, and 25% under Mixed. There was a shift in the response pattern post-lecture, with 96% of the responses falling in the Mixed category. Conclusions: The results of the study highlight a lack of understanding of the concept of cognitive rest in concussion management among trainee sport medics. The need for wider dissemination of this concept as recommended by the recent consensus statement on sports concussion is indicated. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Knowledge Transfer Management: studying the actual process

by Apostolos Rafailidis

5th European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities (OLKC), Innsbruck, Austria 2 – 3 Apr., 2004
co-authored with Giannis Tselekidis

Intangible components like knowledge, technological capabilities and skills, constitute a major determinant of a... more Intangible components like knowledge, technological capabilities and skills, constitute a major determinant of a firm’s competitiveness and can be viewed as production factors. While keeping – up in technological capabilities presents a
challenge for any firm, in cases of firms that are technologically less developed this lack of capabilities presents a major problem. When self – sufficient development of capabilities is not enough to keep – up or catch – up with the competition, firms have to resort to external technology. A main characteristic of technology is that it is based on knowledge. The latter, however, is notoriously hard to transfer; rather, knowledge is a result of learning. This paper empirically studies variables that enhance the probability for successful technological learning through cooperation of Greek firms with foreign partners.

Anonymous Knowledge Sharing In a Virtual Environment: a Preliminary Investigation

by Simon Burnett

Knowledge and Process Management Volume 15 Number 1 pp 1–11 (2008)

The Metamorphosis of the Functional Synthesis: A Continental European Perspective on Governance, Law, and the Political in the Transnational Space

by Poul F. Kjaer

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2010, No. 2, p. 489, 2010

States remain a central form of ordering but only one among several. In the transnational space, a wide range of... more States remain a central form of ordering but only one among several. In the transnational space, a wide range of autonomous public- and private-norm producing organizations and regimes operates, which is not, or only partly controlled, by states. The consequence is that the contemporary world is characterized by a multiplicity of overlapping normative orders that rely on different organizational principles: for example, some are territorially bound and some are functionally delineated. Governance structures have emerged as the form through which the multiplicity of orders is linked together. They are inter-contextual forms which simultaneously serve as buffer zones and transmission belts between these orders. As such, governance structures can be understood as institutional mechanisms that fulfill the function of ensuring the societal embeddedness of autonomous normative orders in the wider world through increased reflexivity.

The type of law which has emerged in order to structure the governance phenomenon reflects the societal function of governance structures. Transnational law is an “in between worlds” law in the sense that a central aspect of transnational law is the framing of learning processes capable of ensuring mutual adaptability between normative orders. As such transnational law fulfills a different function than nation-state law which in essence remains oriented towards the upholding of already established normative expectations. As governance structures are the no man’s land between normative orders, they possess an intrinsic political quality. They are the battlefields were the delineation of normative orders are established and continuously reaffirmed. Grasping the kind of political processes unfolding within governance structures is however conditioned by the development of a concept of the political which reflects the inter-contextual function of governance structures.

Introduction:" The Global Transfer of Management Knowledge"

by Gerhard Fink

When a best practice migrates, its quality and perceived usefulness and applicability changes. It becomes something... more When a best practice migrates, its quality and perceived usefulness and applicability changes. It becomes something different.

What the eight contributions and the interview in their totality suggest is that it can take several years before you can be clear whether a global knowledge management system delivers the expected results. But not only that: it seems that forms of resistance to absorbing knowledge are almost inevitable and such that the transfer process cannot be hurried. That is an important message for practitioners, and it contains a major learning point for management scholars: a very rewarding way to investigate corporations’ knowledge management systems and assess their effectiveness is to study them longitudinally. We are talking then about a field of management research that is not for those whose preference is to deliver pictures of management practice as snapshots.

How gamers manage aggression: Situating skills in collaborative computer games

by Jonas Ivarsson

Ulrika Bennerstedt & Jonas Ivarsson & Jonas Linderoth (2011) Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (DOI 10.1007/s11412-011-9136-6)

In the discussion on what players learn from digital games, there are two major camps in clear opposition to each... more In the discussion on what players learn from digital games, there are two major camps in clear opposition to each other. As one side picks up on negative elements found in games the other side focuses on positive aspects. While the agendas differ, the basic arguments still depart from a shared logic: that engagement in game-related activities fosters the development of behaviors that are transferred to situations beyond the game itself. With an approach informed by ethnomethodology, in this paper we probe the underlying logic connected to studies that argue for such general effects of games. By focusing on proficient gamers involved in the core game activity of boss encounters in a massively multiplayer online game, we examine the fundamentals that must be learnt and mastered for succeeding in an ordinary collaborative gaming practice where aggression is portrayed. On the basis of our empirical analysis we then address the contentious links between concrete instances of play and generic effects. As expected, the results point to “aggression” as well as “collaboration” as major components in the gaming experience, but our analysis also suggests that the practices associated with these notions are locally tied to the game. Based on these results, we propose that to reverse this relationship and claim that game environments foster collaboration or aggression in general first assumes strong theoretical claims about the nature of cognition and learning, and second, risks confusing the debate with hyperbole.

FinalDissertation2010

by Kevin Merges