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Social capital and information technology
A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (ix, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 9780262266772
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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The workplace within :psychodynamics of organizational life
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experienc…
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- 0262275449
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We are Big Data The Future of the Information Society
This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, in which everything will be measured fro…
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- 978-94-6239-183-3
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WCOM (World Class Operations Management) Why You Need More Than Lean
This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about. Utilising real-world case studies illustrated by companies that have adopted this model (interviews with Saint-Gobain, L’Oréal, Tetra Pak, Bemis, and Bel Executives), it describes common patterns drawn from decades of hands-on …
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- 978-3-319-30105-1
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Business Cases in Organisation Behaviour and HRM
This book provides perspectives on various dimensions of organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM) in an ever-changing world. The world has been experiencing disruptions and technological changes at an unprecedented level in the last two decades. This book is a collection of handpicked cases and teaching notes on the various critical dimensions of OB, such as organization…
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- 978-981-99-2031-0
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- Business
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Entrepreneurship and the Community
Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs. Recent research efforts have focused on the dynamics of communities and how they facilitate entrepreneurship among a diverse group of people and organizations. This book highlights research on the importance of communities and their role in providing an entrep…
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- 978-3-030-23604-5
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- Kewirausahaan
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Social Innovation and Social Enterprises
This book provides an exhaustive, critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with social enterprises and social innovation. More specifically, it addresses questions such as: What is a social innovation? Which are the best theories that explain how social innovations are generated and propagated in the global society? What is a social enterprise? Which are the theoretical…
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- 978-3-030-96596-9
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Management: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Dieses Lehrbuch zeigt, wie etablierte Unternehmen eine unternehmerische und innovative Organisation schaffen und erhalten können, um langfristig ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu sichern. Dies wird erreicht über eine unternehmerische Strategie, flexible Organisationsstrukturen und eine passende Organisationskultur. Etliche Instrumente ermöglichen sowohl mehr unternehmerisches Engagement einzelne…
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- 978-3-658-13066-4
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The Origin of the Capitalist Firm
The book addresses the entrepreneurial origin of the capitalist firm and its asymmetric contractual relationships between capitalists, workers, managers and entrepreneurs, and explains the origin of the firm by focusing on entrepreneurship. A hidden action model shows how assigning residual claim to entrepreneurs can provide a better overall incentive; a hidden information model demonstrates th…
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- 978-981-10-0221-2
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- Business Management
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