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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460122603321

Titolo

VINE . Volume 40, Number 3/4 Cultural impacts on knowledge management in the twenty-first century [[electronic resource] /] / guest editors, Michael Stankosky and Francesco A. Calabrese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bingley, UK], : Emerald, 2010

ISBN

1-282-98709-7

9786612987090

0-85724-464-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Collana

VINE ; ; vol. 40, no. 3/4

Altri autori (Persone)

StankoskyMichael

CalabreseFrancesco A

Disciplina

338.4/737

Soggetti

Information storage and retrieval systems

Knowledge management

Acculturation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The journal of information and knowledge management systems".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial 1; Guest editorial 2; In memoriam; Impact of cultural differences on knowledge management in global projects; KM in China: Western heads in Eastern hands?; Knowledge-sharing intention in Vietnamese organizations; The 2020 federal knowledge worker; Business networks, "brain circulation", and the American Chinese diaspora; Knowledge management: French cooking; Accelerating acculturation through tacit knowledge flows: refining a grounded theory model; Culture and KM in China

The impact of national culture traits on the usage of web 2.0 technologiesEnablers and constraints to knowledge creation, sharing and use; Cultural impacts on knowledge sharing: empirical data from EU project collaboration; A study of knowledge flow in Six Sigma teams in a Chinese manufacturing enterprise

Sommario/riassunto

This VINE e-book is to provide an additional resource to knowing and understanding cultures, both across the world, and in organizational



settings within the same country or region. The authors hail from a variety of backgrounds and work experiences themselves. The common denominator is their intense involvement in the knowledge management arena, trying to develop principles and practices to leverage knowledge assets under their cognizance. The guest editors' wish is that the reader will take away a better appreciation of humankind, and how we all attempt to live and function in a shared world