This research attempts to develop a schema for carrying out Indigenous life histories, especially of nine Australian Indigenous tertiary business graduates, so as to gain critical data for qualitative research analysis.

A theoretical paper analysing and explaining the evolution of the marketing information system concept in marketing literature. Parallels with the evolution of knowledge management theory are drawn in terms of key drivers and conceptualisation.

The meaning of knowledge, as understood from Judeo-Christian historical perspective, relates significantly to the need for understanding and applying knowledge in diverse contemporary contexts.

A model that demonstrates the basic components of white-collar cybercrime.

The implementation of World Bank Assisted Project for Strengthening Technician Education in India and other similar initiatives taken by Govt. of India from time to time has brought significant changes in the technical education system of the country.

Academic knowledge management dispalys a reductionist appreciation of knowledge. Contemporay understrandings of knowledge management require integrated approaches. Changes in academic practices are required.

This study investigates the entry mode choice in CEE by applying organizational learning theory and transaction cost theory, complemented by international strategy arguments and testing for cultural distance and host-country risk influence.

Adaptive leadership requires effective knowledge acquisition and use. Being aware of one's environment and the options available are essential for effective decision-making and leadership.

This research emphasis on discussing the impact of culture on CRM systems and try to summarize the pervious work done on the impact of culture on CRM systems.

In 2000, Alberta SuperNet set as its goal a high-speed, high-capacity broadband fibre-optic network intended to link 4700 government offices, schools, healthcare facilities, and libraries in Alberta's 422 communities. The real promise of the SuperNet, being rolled out this year, was that all Albertans, particularly rural and Aboriginal Albertans, in over 395 unconnected communities would now be on the information highway, part of the new global knowledge economy. The SuperNet held greatest expectations for Aboriginal communities. This paper will discuss the potential and real impacts of digital content, and on line education on Aboriginal communities. The fact that there was no economic base for many of these communities was a key issue. Equally important was the fact that digital content and on line interactions could further erode Aboriginal Cultural values. The paper will describe several participatory action research initiatives to allow Aboriginal communities to control the impact of the new media and the new knowledge based economy

This paper will explore the role that social software can play in assisting the interaction and collaboration across geographically dispersed sales teams managing global customers.

This paper evaluates the application of knowledge management principles towards enhancing crisis planning efforts and minimizing the disruptive effects of crises in organizations.

There are severe organizational and social barriers to knowledge sharing between projects. This paper discusses how to overcome these barriers to improve knowledge sharing.

Socio-economic changes in Russia among other areas affected healthcare, requesting physicians to develop managerial skills. Analyses of physicians’ opinions regarding management education could assist in enhancing physicians' management and administrative knowledge.

This paper addresses the need to reduce the Service Gap within non-profit institutions of higher education through a realistic adjustment of student expectations which reflect the realities of limited resources and capacity.

This symposium aims to provoke debate on how professional doctorate programs create learning environments that enable the candidates and faculty to contribute the generation of new types of knowledge

Research autonomy and freedom are refereed to as core elements of the university culture - and the management related to this idea may be refereed to as ‘autonomy management’. The paper present actual management at Danish research institutions and compare this with empirical studies on researchers’ attitudes.

This study explores awareness, use, and importance of globalization-related issues in the daily business decisions of multinational corporations.

The quest for organizational efficiencies is a ubiquitous experience in countless organizations today. It is rare to find an organization of any kind, in any domain, that is not experiencing the press of an increased demand for higher quality work, produced in less time—all with fewer resources than ever before (Demarco, 2001). And in the “organizational trenches,” employees of all kinds and at all levels are experiencing this press for efficiencies in numerous ways, most of them stressful.

e-learning for training in content information of learning for knowledge

The thesis considers modern bibliographic instruction in light of the World Wide Web environment, and some of the inherent obstacles.

A study of SME's perceptions of various business advisors within cumbria after the foot and mouth crisis.

If knowledge is an organisational ‘resource’, how is it built over time? This paper conceptualises Knowledge Management as a dynamic resource accumulation system.

This proposed research uses what we know about interpersonal relationships from agency theory and stewardship theory, as well as relationship management/marketing, interpersonal and interorganizational trust, and product development/project management to offer an integrated model of the client-professional relationship impacting client trust and loyalty.

This paper discusses learning as discovery and sets out a method to build communities of discovery that will generate transformative learning.

This paper is exploring the relationship between building human capital, HR capabilities and organisational performance in the SME sector in the UK.

The new generation of business intelligence systems (BIS) offers the potential for significantly improving operational and strategic performance for organizations of various sizes and types.

This paper is about the monetary measurement of value in contemporary art. It is about the internal and external mechanisms that create that value

This paper suggests a model that extends the current perspective and provides a basis for a more comprehensive approach to financial digitization.

This qualitative, empirical study explores multiculturalism and knowledge management in a corporate environment.

With regards to knowledge sharing, our research in Malaysia indicates that the psychological contract of reciprocity of employer-employee relationship is under threat.

This paper examines organizational change and determinant factors of resistance to change through a comprehensive review of different strands of empirical and conceptual research studies conducted over the last few decades.

Perceptions of change management and resistance to change among MBA students from diverse backgrounds in the context of an impending University merger.

This paper discusses the findings of change management issues related to ERP systems in Australian companies.

The relations between the changing the new Chinese city magazine and the culture interface ; and the intercrossing situation between modern city and the postmodern context.

Current research deals with changing organizational culture. 360 Degree Feedback System is used for this reason. This study has been done in Arcelik Firm.

This paper examines the role of the Chief Knowledge Officer in managing knowledge management programs and the controversy surrounding the need for this role.

This is a brief history of American consumer culture.

Organization charts influence member behavior. That behavior can be channeled to better serve clients (stakeholders).

Tomorrow's most effective knowledge workers will need to be educated across multiple disciplines in a collaborative setting if they are to bring a true culture of innovation to organizations across the globe. This paper will analyze the process of collaborative cross-disciplinary design and draw conclusions as to how design education can evolve to serve the changing needs of the knowledge economy.

Recent reforms of the public sector have focused on the imposition of new performance measurement systems. This paper argues that the likely outcome of these changes will not be a transformation in performance but rather further commodification of the services and de-professionalisation of public sector workers.

A comparative study of work value orientations and patterns of minority and non-minority future managers in the US.

Models of business competition and technology may be applied to both library and corporate information services in today’s information economy.

Trust in electronic auctions is being seriously threatened by unethical and illegal practices. These practices can be exposed by computer models.

Within most organizations, it is not possible to admit failure within incurring career risk. However, real learning occurs best when we fail. Therefore, what are the implications for this with the Knowledge Management field if we are to help practitioners develop their skills? Learn how one application of "story telling" has overcome these obstacles and created real opportunities for professional learning.

Practical approach to identifying and connecting the knowledge assets of a university and developing a blueprint for action which addresses management, culture and business processes.

An examination of the contextual teaching and learning approaches from the Humanist and Constructivist perspectives.

We propose “Continuous Added-Value Management,” a system designed to continuously focus an organization on leveraging human capital to constantly add value.

This paper describes the differences in the ability to reflect individually and collectively by students in Organisation Behaviour classrooms as organisations.

A panel discussion on some controversies arising in knowledge management concerned with deproffessioanlisation, politics, tacit knowledge transfer and culture

This paper reports on a longitudinal study of a small group of New Zealand manufacturers that has faced a turbulent international business environment over the last 10 years. They have all survived but with mixed fortunes. Sales growth varied from +430% to –50% over the period due to changes in products, markets, and in ownership.

A Business Case for Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) in South Africa.

An examination of the costs associated with unhealthy work environments for Canadian health care professionals and the organizations in which they work.

This interactive workshop will focus on the essential principles that undergird the success of a twenty-year university-public school partnership in affecting the simultaneous renewal of teacher education and public schools.

The IUB Libraries created a content management system that has made it possible for their large decentralized organization to present a unified and well designed public interface on the web.

This paper presents the methods by which business management theories were utilized to develop a structure that promoted trust, open communication, participation in goal setting and decision making processes, and a decentralized control process in a one hundred twelve-year old university.

This paper presents a case study from General Practice Management within the English NHS. A research based programme of activity was delivered to engender organisational learning, skills development and sharing amongst an isolated and dispersed body of the management workforce, who are not directly employed by the NHS.

A Case Study of a four year change management project involving the establishment of the Mackay Whitsunday Region of the Department of Families in Queensland Australia. Cultural changes achieved through the application of quality improvement and learning organisation approaches.

Creative, cost efficient and empowering in-service education is required to create a professional development culture which will meet the needs of the changing teaching profession.

This paper discusses a range of issues related to the meaning of "creating actionable knowledge". This paper outlines a “work-in–progress” University-based project involving Action Research in a range of government, NFP and private organisations. The overall aim of project is the development and translation of management theory into the world of action.

An interactive workshop designed to create strategic responses that address major multi-dimensional changes.

This paper contributes to understanding organisational processes in new ways of organising work, is also explores new ways to consciously design processes in which information and communication technology are driving forces.

After a series of fatal accidents, Crew Resource Management (CRM) was introduced in the commercial airline industry. While fatalies have reduced, the question arises of what else do we have to learn?

A crucial part of the knowledge prodcution process is its validation and accepted by a community. Discourse analysis is one approach to understanding how knowledge is brought forth and accepted as reality.

This paper examines knowledge transfer impediments to social development in disadvantaged communities, using housing in Aboriginal communities as a case study to examine cultural interactions.

This research examines organizational and cultural crisis and change at the Los Angeles Police Department in the aftermath of the Rampart Scandal and September 11th.

The paper discusses the concept of gender-sensitive organisational development taking cultural aspects into account, including learning experience, leadership style, power relations, occupational gender roles and attitudes towards family life.

In this session the presenters will discuss cases of cultural dilemmas in knowledge management and change initiatives. Cultural dilemmas among stakeholders are common barriers to effective knowledge management. Being able to identify, respect, and reconcile cultural differences is very important to the successful implementation of knowledge management.

Participants will discover the hidden dynamics in their own organization’s culture that impact knowledge flow, learning, innovation and ethical action and explore possible solutions.

Market liberalization and globalization cause cultural change in the Vietnam coffee industry. This paper discusses cultural impacts at the national, corporate and individual levels.

This paper examines differences in managerial leadership styles of middle-level managers in four countries.

This study examines knowledge creation/importation through the the use of contingent knowledge professionals working with core organization staff within culturally aligned teams.

This study explores and examines how knowledge managers of 13 global firms perceived the relationship between culture and knowledge management (KM) in their organisations

In this paper we analyze how reforms in the health care sector have affected the level of corruption amongst Polish physicians.

This paper is about how technology is socially constructed in higher education during fiscally challenging times.

An application of ethical theory to the call by many organisations for stronger protection under intellectual property laws for their electronic databases.

Unfortunately, the underlying reason violence is occurring at the workplace is due to top management not taking the necessary prevention steps. Although such tactical issues as profiling, identifying behaviors, and even training that all can be implemented at the departmental, without the proper push from upper management violence at the workplace seems to go minimized and appear as unimportant.

Despite the tremendous technical advances achieved in the field of formal workplace learning, issues of culture give rise to complex and problematic problems that oppose knowledge-sharing, knowledge acquisition, and tangible benefits in the form of improved performance. The cultural factors and mental frameworks held by individuals and corporations manifest as contradictions and barriers which must be identified and understood before synergies between culture and knowledge can be developed.

This study defines practical, experience-based guidelines for overcoming organisational and management ‘cultural barriers’ to the deployment and future sponsorship of a knowledge management scheme.

Examines the effect that R&D tax concessions have on determining the level of R&D in Australia

The paper explores presents a cultural change model for a knowledge university that has academics and administrators working together as communities of practice.

Through an interactive workshop, participants learn the dichotomies of supportive and defensive climate and how to create an environment of supportive communication.

A case study of innovation and knowledge management in the public sector.

This paper discusses the role of usability heuristics in online course management systems and proposes eight usability guidelines for creating online course content in online course management systems.

This paper investigates the role of different processes of globalization versus the imprint of local cultures as explanation for different services.

Designing online curriculum that educates all kinds of learners, takes a lot of thought. There should be texts, lectures, discussion sessions, traditional assignments and Instructor student Q &A.

We will describe a process of co-inquiry that provides both the technique and the information for respectful organisational change.

The proposed paper analyzes the corporate culture from the perspective of a diversity continuum, where on one end there is a dominant tendency for culture unification and on the other end a tendency for maintaining a diversity and capitalizing on it. The diversity continuum model is proposed.The paper examines the hypotheses that an advancement of a added value creation process is dependant on company’s position on a diversity management continuum.

The evidence-based practice movement has legitimated, for some, the organizational principles of managed care. Most psychotherapists find strict adherence to statistical findings foreign and inappropriate; how, then, has managed care changed their behavior--through cultural change or economic incentives alone?

Unlike war cries such as The Art of War, Dot ZEN is a Zen-inspired philosophy for running businesses and organizations.

The key themes of this paper are Innovation; the Internet; globalisation; the virtual workplace and Japanese management and production practices.

his paper explores differences in drug distribution management in US and China - the mature market and the developing market.

This research proposes new understanding about the organization of dynamic knowledge systems and procedures to integrate knowledge metadata with meta-cognitive profiles of organizational entities.

This paper examines how culture affects the style of business organizations in the major countries in the world and in turn how the organizations styles shape economic performance.

This paper offers an innovative approach to educating for multi-cultural competence through conceptual and experiential means, including the use of museum-based cultural resources. Its relevance and transferability for diversity training in organizations will be explicated.

This article examines an ongoing program of Inclusive Leadership and Social Change, designed to prepare business students to be agents of social and cultural change in organizations.

The article proposes a theory of the influence of social network on companies' performance and empirically tests it.

A bank following a strategy of geographic diversification was constrained by culture. A system dynamics model tested five strategies possible if the culture’s grip loosened.

This paper investigates how organizational culture can serve as a lens through which firms interpret and make sense of both their internal and external environment

This study is a theoretically-justified empirical examination of the effects of information technology supported customer relationship management (CRM) on the customer to SME loyalty construct.

The paper tries to present an account on how a start up relation between an international partner and a local partner effects the development of the local partner’s business.

This paper estimates the effects of tax and government spending shocks on output in a structural Vector Error Correction model for eight OECD countries, including Great Britain.

The study uses data collected from 218 U.S. organizations to investigate the effects of organizational culture on the performance of NPD projects.

This case study supports the hypothesis that norms of politeness and defensiveness stop employees from engaging in important critical discussions. Employees who had positive interactions with their immediate supervisors however were more willing to engage in constructive critical discussion about the organization.

This paper reports a study investigating the website support that trade unions provide for learning representatives.

This paper is an examination of the response of the library field to the challenges of rapidly changing trends in information development and knowledge management.

Enterprises can reduce risks associated with email management through advance planning. This paper will report on the results of a study undertaken to understand the extent to which email users have been informed by their employers of email risk management issues and believe their employers are prepared to deal with them.

This paper describes preliminary results from research to construct a grounded theory of voluntary, informal, knowledge sharing.

This paper looks at the current and future existence and level of empowerment given to hospitality staff in both Hong Kong and China.

This paper presents the results of testing a model of the psychological 'felt' empowerment of state school principals and a number of influencing factors.

The paper examines the use of engaged research methods, giving insights into the difficulties of use problems and possible responses.