[PDF] Power In Intercommunal Knowledge Networks eBook

Author : Denise Bedford
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1839829508

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Knowledge Networks describes the role of networks in the knowledge economy, explains network structures and behaviors, walks the reader through the design and setup of knowledge network analyses, and offers a step by step methodology for conducting a knowledge network analysis.

Author : Longbing Cao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642154204

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Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2010. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents for data mining; data mining for agents; data mining in agents; and agent mining applications.

Author : Adi Weidenfeld
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2023
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Studying inter-regional knowledge exchange has recently shifted to a more systematic analysis of knowledge exchange mechanisms between networks of groups of actors, which have seen a rapid growth in number and impact. Although arbitrary or top-down decisions on network membership can result in low commitment and inefficient use of time and financial resources, empirical studies on such networks' knowledge exchange mechanisms remain rare. This paper is the first to study such a mechanism at the national level and explore its role, structure, membership, scope, communication channels, power relations, geopolitical environment and systemic qualities, and their impact on knowledge exchange and learning practices. Based on in-depth text analysis of a variety of online documents and descriptive data collected from NILGA's websites as well as interviews with 15 key informants from member and partner organisations of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association as a case study of a knowledge network of regions, it suggests policy recommendations on improving the efficiency of a knowledge networks of regions and how this benefits its members as well as fruitful directions for future studies.

Author : Adel Moslehi
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2014
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Knowledge intensive or high-tech industries are widely regarded as important for overall national economic growth and competitiveness, while survival of these industries relies on their ability to create new knowledge and transform that knowledge into new technologies. In these industries, one increasing mode of knowledge creation is through collaboration with peers and other partners. Such collaborations often happen within inter-organisational knowledge networks (k-networks). The increasing attention on k-networks stems from several reasons like turbulent and dynamic markets, cost reduction, fast response to market demands or limited core competencies. The high pace and radical innovation projects in knowledge-based industries emphasise the need for research in the area of k-networks, particularly in the biotechnology industry.In this context, understanding the way that k-networks can contribute to knowledge creation, seems critical for the survival of knowledge-based industries and accordingly also has a significant influence on society as a whole. While the literature focuses on the contribution of network structure, it also shows that the prior research has produced seemingly contradictory results. A growing body of research highlights the need for going beyond the network structure to address other constructs of k-networks and understand the way that interactions among these constructs may influence knowledge creation. My research first reviewed the k-network literature thoroughly and identified content and process together with network structure as inter-related constructs of k-networks. More particularly knowledge diversity as a characteristic of content, collaboration with partners as the characteristics of process and centrality and density as the characteristics of structure are identified as the constructs interacting with each other in the context of knowledge creation. These constructs are conceptualised into a theoretical model that is examined by employing a quantitative-qualitative mixed method inquiry.Focusing on the biotechnology industry of Victoria, Australia as a knowledge intensive industry in which knowledge creation is normally tied with patenting, my research used patent co-authorship network as a k-network that involves innovation-driven collaborations. To map the network and study the structural constructs, first social network analysis, was used. Then my research studied the interaction between constructs of the k-networks by using moderated multiple regressions followed by interaction analysis. As a result, three significant interactions were found which provided a basis to introduce a novel typology of k-network configurations. To seek confirmation and explanation for these quantitative findings, four cases were selected purposefully to study all the possible k-network configurations in more detail. Using this sequential quantitative-qualitative mixed method inquiry, my research shows how the interactions of the content-process-structure of k-networks may support knowledge creation for actors in the knowledge intensive industries. My research extends the knowledge network research particularly in the domain of inter-organisational innovation-driven collaborations. The thesis explores the implications of findings and the potential to contribute to explaining previous contradictory results in k-network research, as well as practical contributions for private companies and for policy makers.

Author : Stephen L. Quackenbush
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1452240981

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Introducing students to key theories and empirical findings of international conflict stemming from scientific research on core facets, this book covers the whole process of interstate war, from causes of conflict to escalation, conduct, resolution and recurrence.

Author : Arne S. Steinforth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030769240

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When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.

Author : Gyanendra Pandey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804752640

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This book investigates the ideological and political conditions that allow, and sanction, the undisguised political violence of our times. It is concerned with the regnant demands of nationalism and of history writing, and the unity and uniformity upon which these insist.

Author : Giuditta Fontana
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319314262

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This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-conflict education in these post-conflict societies, as well as the repercussions that emerged from the end of civil war. This book demonstrates that education policy affects the resilience of political settlements by helping reproduce and reinforce the mutually exclusive religious, ethnic, and national communities that participated in conflict and now share political power. Using curricula for subjects—such as history, citizenship education, and languages—and structures like the existence of state-funded separate or common schools, Fontana shows that power-sharing constrains the scope for specific education reforms and offers some suggestions for effective ones to aid political stability and reconciliation after civil wars.