To explain how progressive companies are using a combination of knowledge and risk management (KRM) systems and techniques in order to help them to prevent, or respond most…
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Purpose
To explain how progressive companies are using a combination of knowledge and risk management (KRM) systems and techniques in order to help them to prevent, or respond most effectively to, ethical or reputation‐damaging incidents.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper explains KRM, develops a corporate integrity framework, and then explores how the KRM process component of the framework is related to the use of knowledge management (KM)‐related procedures, techniques, and tools in use in many corporations.
Findings
In many forward‐looking corporations KM procedures, techniques and tools are being used to perform risk management. KRM, the integration of knowledge and risk management, is alive and well and, given the global importance of risk management, may provide KM with a much‐needed and revitalizing boost.
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The value of the KRM perspective is its development of a new and comprehensive application of KM to the vital global corporate need of risk management.
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Despite several years of hearty media and academic interest, for most people “knowledge management” still remains an ill‐defined and woolly concept. The problem may be that…
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Despite several years of hearty media and academic interest, for most people “knowledge management” still remains an ill‐defined and woolly concept. The problem may be that knowledge management proponents have usually focused on either the minutiae of implementation ‐ intranets and data mining techniques ‐ or worse, on abstract theories such as the value of trust in a knowledge sharing culture. This article contends that it is only really possible to appreciate the concrete importance of knowledge management in the workplace if the subject is seen in a much broader context ‐ as causally related to the enormous changes taking place in the global economic framework itself. These more fundamental changes to the economic environment are what are driving organizations toward adopting the sophisticated new set of policies and practices known as “knowledge management”. In short, there is a broad “knowledge‐based revolution” taking place, and it comes in a matching set: the knowledge‐based economy for nations, and knowledge management for organizations themselves.
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Catherine Bailey and Martin Clarke
Despite the ever‐burgeoning literature and growth of conceptual models and tools, hard‐pressed managers seem to find it difficult to appreciate the special significance that…
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Despite the ever‐burgeoning literature and growth of conceptual models and tools, hard‐pressed managers seem to find it difficult to appreciate the special significance that knowledge management (KM) has for redefining their managerial work. In two complementary articles, this problem is investigated and ideas developed to help turn existing information about KM into “usable ideas”. In this first article, the importance of helping managers to relate knowledge management to what is organisationally important (currency), to what furthers an individual’s goals and interests (personal relevance), and to what is practical within an individual’s current capacity (actionable), is explained. Currency is explored using a managerial knowledge portfolio that identifies the knowledge to be managed in the critical areas of managerial focus, strategy, operational processes and change management. Actionability is explored using an organisational knowledge management activity matrix that describes KM activities in terms which are meaningful and provides a basis for a KM audit.
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Film provides an alternative medium for assessing our interpretations of cultural icons. This selective list looks at the film and video sources for information on and…
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Film provides an alternative medium for assessing our interpretations of cultural icons. This selective list looks at the film and video sources for information on and interpretations of the life of Woody Guthrie.
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It is early days in the life of Knowledge Management (KM) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Knowledge Management Audit, undertaken during six…
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It is early days in the life of Knowledge Management (KM) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The Knowledge Management Audit, undertaken during six months of action research at the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in 1998, provided the springboard to a knowledge sharing culture. The findings of the audit prompted an urgent need to apply KM initiatives. Accordingly, two knowledge repositories: ‘OCE Central Knowledge Store’ and ‘The Knowledge Tree’ were proposed and developed for OCE consideration. Their implementation is a big step forward for leveraging corporate memory at the EBRD. These initiatives are already flourishing and providing valuable knowledge sharing guidance to other departments in the Bank.
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Christos Bimpitsos and Eugenia Petridou
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the benefits, barriers and challenges of the transdisciplinary approach to training, and to present findings of a case analysis.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the benefits, barriers and challenges of the transdisciplinary approach to training, and to present findings of a case analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on the research findings of an experimental training program for Greek local government managers co‐funded by the European Union.
Findings
The adoption of the transdisciplinary approach for the effective training of (local government) managers has a number of important advantages, including the connection of training with real problems that organizations face today, as well as the development of transdisciplinary competences necessary for the effective adaptation and activation of managers in the turbulent environment of the new economy.
Research limitations/implications
The experimental training program focuses on managers of Greek local government organizations. However, the critical factors that are described are relative to the training needs of most organizations operating in the new globalized economic environment.
Practical implications
The design of the transdisciplinary training programs, as well as their implementation and evaluation processes, can be of use to all organizations interested in the strategic training and development of human resources, regardless of their size and sector.
Originality/value
There is a great potential for the development of training programs based on the transdisciplinary approach. Fields of immediate application are those where social, economic and ecological elements interact and should be integrated in a sustainable way.
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This paper aims to quantify the quality of peer reviews, evaluate them from different perspectives and develop a model to predict the review quality. In addition, this paper…
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Purpose
This paper aims to quantify the quality of peer reviews, evaluate them from different perspectives and develop a model to predict the review quality. In addition, this paper investigates effective features to distinguish the reviews' quality.
Design/methodology/approach
First, a fine-grained data set including peer review data, citations and review conformity scores was constructed. Second, metrics were proposed to evaluate the quality of peer reviews from three aspects. Third, five categories of features were proposed in terms of reviews, submissions and responses using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Finally, different machine learning models were applied to predict the review quality, and feature analysis was performed to understand effective features.
Findings
The analysis results revealed that reviewers become more conservative and the review quality becomes worse over time in terms of these indicators. Among the three models, random forest model achieves the best performance on all three tasks. Sentiment polarity, review length, response length and readability are important factors that distinguish peer reviews’ quality, which can help meta-reviewers value more worthy reviews when making final decisions.
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This study provides a new perspective for assessing review quality. Another originality of the research lies in the proposal of a novelty task that predict review quality. To address this task, a novel model was proposed which incorporated various of feature sets, thereby deepening the understanding of peer reviews.