From: | Stephanie B. |
Sent on: | Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 5:50 PM |
Hi Everyone,
This is an open invitation to two up-coming presentations, fyi.
Best Regards,
Stephanie
Stephanie Barnes, BBA, MBA
Chief Chaos Organizer
Missing Puzzle Piece Consulting
www.missingpuzzlepiececonsulting.ca
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In
this inter-session break, the Knowledge Management Research Center at the
Faculty of Information has organized two interesting sessions to which the
community is invited.
On April 20th
(1100h-1230h) Rivad?via (Riva) C. Drummond a visiting scholar from Brazil
will speak about The Management Of Knowledge In The Brazilian Organizational
Context: A Shift Towards The Management Of "Ba".
On May 4th (1100h-1230h) Dr Hazel Hall, Reader in Social Informatics, Centre
for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University will speak about
Information sharing as social exchange in online environments.
These sessions will be held in room 728. These sessions are open to members and
friends of the Faculty of Information and KMDI communities.
More details
on these two presentations are below:
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April
20th, 2009: The Management Of Knowledge In The Brazilian Organizational Context:
A Shift Towards The Management Of "Ba"
Dr. Rivad?via
Correa Drummond de Alvarenga Neto is Professor at Funda??o Dom Cabral, a
Brazilian business school ranked the 16th best business school in the world and
the best one in Latin America according to the Financial Times Executive
Education ranking 2008. He holds a PhD in Information Science from Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais Federal - UFMG, Brazil.
Rivad?via speaks regularly on the subject of knowledge management and he
conducted the first in depth qualitative study within the Brazilian
organizational context in 2005. The results of this study will be presented and
discussed along with case studies conducted in the last 8 years of research.
Since 2001 he's been working with many international firms, such as Petrobras,
Embrapa, ONS, Astra Zeneca, Linde, ABN Amro Bank, Anglo American, among others.
His newest book has just been released in Brazil (Knowledge Management in
Organizations, Editora Saraiva, S?o Paulo, Brazil, 2008).
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May
4th, 2009: Information sharing as social exchange in online environments
Dr
Hazel Hall, Reader in Social Informatics, Centre for Social Informatics,
Edinburgh Napier University, EH10 5DT, UK
@hazelh
Abstract
In
2001 Hall suggested that social exchange theory might provide a suitable
theoretical framework to account for information sharing behavior in online
environments (Hall, 2001; Hall, 2003). However, empirical work undertaken in a
large multinational, where an intranet was deployed as the main channel for
information and knowledge sharing, offered only limited evidence to support
this view. Here elements of exchange theory, as drawn directly from the
domain of economics, were deemed more appropriate (Hall, 2002).
Two
further studies of online information sharing behavior were conducted to
investigate whether exchanges might be motivated differently in environments
where participants are not salaried staff. Blogging tools were provided to
students in a university setting as the main locale for the discussion of
theoretical class content. Analysis of a range of data collected from the two
most recent cohorts of students (including patterns of their online exchanges)
supports the view that social exchange theory can explain non-economic
transactions between actors (Bignoux, 2006, p. 619). From these findings it is
evident that established social connections, as well as proximity in the
physical world, translate to a greater willingness for individuals to share
information with others online. For example, students in established friendship
pairs at the start of the course were more likely to reciprocate comments on
one another's blog entries than those who were not. Added to this there was
evidence of the development of a gift economy across the class blogosphere as
students made decisions as to with whom they would discuss the theoretical
content of the class.
As
well as providing an opportunity to consider the role of social exchange theory
as an explanatory factor for information sharing practice, the paper prompts
consideration of the conditions conducive to the encouragement of participation
in online learning environments with reference to both external interventions
as incentives, and the internal management of social capital.
References
Bignoux,
S. (2006). Short-term strategic alliances: a social exchange perspective.
Management Decision, 44(5),[masked].
Hall,
H. (2001). Social exchange for knowledge exchange. Paper presented at the
International Conference on Managing Knowledge, University of Leicester,
April[masked].
Hall,
H. (2002). Sharing capability: the development of a framework to investigate
knowledge sharing in distributed organizations. In Proceedings of the Third
European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities, 5-6
April, Athens, Greece (CD ROM). Athens: Alba.
Hall,
H. (2003). Borrowed theory: applying exchange theories in information science
research. Library and Information Science Research, 25(3),
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