The uniqueness of knowledge management in small companies: managing knowledge as an employer strategy for lifelong learning
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| adam_text | TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT III TABLE OF CONTENTS V ANNOTATED TABLE OF
CONTENTS VI LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES XI LLSTOFABBREVIATIONS XIII
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XV PART I INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 PART
II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 5 CHARTER 2: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO LEARNING 7
CHAPTER 3: FROM LIFELONG LEARNING TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 21 CHAPTER 4:
TOWARDS A MODEL FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 47 PART M CONTEXT AND
BACKGROUND 61 CHAPTER 5: THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND AND THE SWEDISH
POSITION IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMEN, INNOVATION AND TRAINING 63 CHAPTER
6: METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH PROCEDURE 85 PART IV RESULTS 95 CHAPTER 7:
EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE KNOWLEDGE-ENABLING ENVIRONMENT 97 CHAPTER 8:
EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE TRAINING ACTIVITTES 115 PARTV CONCLUSIONS
AND FURTHER RESEARCH 137 CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS 139 REFERENCES 145
ANNEXES 161 ANNEX I: CODE BOOK 163 ANNEX N: INTERVIEW GUIDE 175 ANNEX
III: DESCRIPTTVE ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANIES 177 ANNEX IV: ADDITIONAL
TABLES 197 BIBLIOGRAFISCHE INFORMATIONEN HTTP://D-NB.INFO/987974580
DIGITALISIERT DURCH ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT NI TABLE OF
CONTENTS . . .. . . V ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS . .... . . . . *
.... VI LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES... .. . . ..*.*. ..*.... XI LIST OF
FIGURES XI LIST OF TABLES XN LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS XM GENERAL
ABBREVIATIONS XM COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS XIV ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XV PART I
INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .... . . . ......... ... ...... 1
1.1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.2BACKGROUNDOFTHESTUDY 2 1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 3
1.4 LLMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 3 1.5STRUCTUREOFTHETHESIS 4 PART N
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 5 CHAPTER 2: FROM KNOWLEDGE TO LEARNING..*. .
..... 7 2.1 INTRODUCTION 7 2.2 EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 7 2.2.1 THREE MAIN EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACHES 7
2.2.2 CONSTRUCTIVISM 8 2.3 UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE FROM A KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE 10 2.3.1 DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND
EXPERTISE 10 2.3.2 EXPLICIT AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE, THE PUBLIC AND THE
PRIVATE 12 2.3.3 KNOWLEDGE CONTENT 16 KNOW-WHAT 16 KNOW-WHY 16 KNOW-HOW
17 KNOW-WHO 17 2.4 KNOWLEDGE, ACNON AND LEARNING 17 CHAPTER 3: FROM
LIFELONG LEARNTNG TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT....*......~.21 3. ANNOTATED
TABLE OF CONTENTS VII KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS A STRATEGY FOR LIFELONG
LEARNING 26 3.3 DLFFERENT DISCIPLINES CONTRIBUTING TO THE FIELD OF
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 27 3.3.1 INTRODUCTION 27 3.3.2 HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY
29 HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 31 3.3.3 ORGANIZATIONAL
LEARNING AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION 31 ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 31 THE
LEARNING ORGANIZATION 32 ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING, THE LEARNING
ORGANIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT .33 3.3.4 INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL 33
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL 38 3.3.5 THE KNOWLEDGE
CREATING COMPANY AND THE SECI MODEL 39 THE KNOWLEDGE CREATING COMPANY
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 43 3.4 INTEGRATED MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT 44 CHAPTER 4: TOWARDS A MODEL FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 47 4.1
INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HOLISTIC MODEL FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT.. 47 4.2
THE KNOWLEDGE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT 49 4.2.1 HUMAN RESOURCES AND ITS
MANAGEMENT 49 HUMAN RESOURCE CHARACTERISTICS 49 HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT 50 RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCEDURES AND NEW EMPLOYEES 50
REWARD SYSTEM 51 ORGANIZATION OFWORK 52 4.2.2 COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES
52 4.2.3 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INFRASTRUCTURE 54 4.2.4 PHYSICAL SPACE
55 4.3 THE LEARNING ARENAS 56 4.3.1 INTRODUCTION: CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE
56 4.3.2 FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES 57 4.3.3 INFORMAL
LEARNING 57 4. VIII THE UNIQUENESS OF KNOWLEDGE RAANAGEMENT IN SMALL
COMPANIES 5.4.2 CONSULTANCY AND EDUCATION IN EUROPE AND SWEDEN 80
CHAPTER 6: METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH PROCEDURE . 85 6.1 METHODOLOGY 85
6.1.1 HYPOTHETICAL DEDUCTIVE RATIONALE 85 6.1.2 DATA AND METHODOLOGICAL
TRIANGULATION 86 INTRODUCTION 86 DOCUMENT ANALYSIS 87 SEMI-STRUCTURED
INTERVIEWS 87 QUESTIONNAIRES 88 6.1.3 STATISTICAL METHODS 89 THE MEDIAN
SPLIT METHOD 89 6.2 RESEARCH PROCEDURE 90 6.2.1 SAMPLING PROCEDURE 90
6.2.2 CODIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS AND OTHER WRITTEN MATERIAL 91 6.2.3
VISITING COMPANIES 91 6.2.4 QUESTIONNAIRE ANALYSIS 92 6.2.5 DATA
TRIANGULATION 92 DATA COMBINATION 92 ANALYSIS PROCEDURE 93 PART IV
RESULTS 95 CHAPTER 7: EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE KNOWLEDGE-ENABLING
ENVIRONMENT
......................................................................................................97
7.1 INTRODUCTION 97 7.2 DESCRIPTWE ANALYSIS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ENABLING
ENVIRONMENT 97 7.2.1 HETEROGENEITY IN THE SELECTED KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE
COMPANIES 97 7.2.2 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONSULTANCY AND
EDUCATIONAL COMPANIES 100 7.3 EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF THE
KNOWLEDGE-ENABLING ENVIRONMENT: EIGHT ENABLING CONSTRUCTS 101 7.4
RELATTNG THE ENABLING CONSTRUCTS 105 7.4.1 RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE
DIFFERENT CONSTRUCT INDICATORS 105 7.4. ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS IX
COMPARISON WITH SWEDISH COMPANIES 123 8.2.4 TRAINING SUBJECTS 124
PURPOSE OF THE TRAINING 124 SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION: ISCED CLASSIFICATION
127 8.3 INFORMAL LEARNING 128 8.4 PATTERNS, SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
WITHIN THE LEARNING ARENAS 129 8.4.1 SUMMARY OF THE DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS
129 8.4.2 RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SPECIFIC INDICATORS FOR KNOWLEDGE-CREATION
130 8.5 THE TRAINING ARENAS AND THE ENABLING CONSTRUCTS 131 SIMILARITIES
AND DIFFERENCES IN CONSULTANCY AND EDUCATIONAL COMPANIES 133 8.6
KNOWLEDGE-CREATION INDICATORS IN RELATION TO CERTAIN EFFECTIVENESS
INDICATORS 134 8.7 SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS 134 PART V CONCLUSIONS AND
FURTHER RESEARCH 137 CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS 139 9.1 SUMMARY OF THE
FINDINGS 139 THE KNOWLEDGE-ENABLING ENVIRONMENT 139 THE LEARNING ARENAS
140 THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE 141 9.2 THEORETICAL MODEL RE-VISITED 142 9.3
FURTHER RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATIONS 143 REFERENCES . . . . . 145
ANNEXES .. .. . . ... . .. . ... 161 ANNEX I: CODE BOOK ... .. . . . 163
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR ANNEX 1 163 INTERVIEW AND DOCUMENT DATA 163 THE
KNOWLEDGE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT 163 GENERAL INFORMATION 163 EMPLOYEE S
CHARACTERISTICS 164 RECRUITMENT / SELECTION 165 REWARD SYSTEM 166 BONUS
SYSTEM 166 ASPECTOF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 166 ASPECT X THE UNIQUENESS
OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SMALL COMPANIES SECTION D: INFORMAL LEARNING
ACTIVITIES 173 SECTION E: ASSOCIATIONS 173 SECTION F: COMMUNICATION AND
LITERACY PRACTICES 174 SECTION G: MEETINGS 174 ANNEX II: INTERVIEW GUIDE
175 PARTA 175 PARTB 176 PARTC 176 ANNEX IN: DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE
COMPANIES 177 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COMPANIES AND MAIN FEATURES OF
THE ANALYSIS PLANS 177 SUMMARY TABLES 180 ANNEX IV: ADDITIONAL TABLES .
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