The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice: A Social Approach
Author:   Gunilla Widen-Wulff (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Publisher:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
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9781843342847


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 April 2007
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The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice: A Social Approach


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Author:   Gunilla Widen-Wulff (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Publisher:   Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781843342847


ISBN 10:   1843342847
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 April 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1 Theories of information sharing: Information sharing in context; Patterns of sharing – enablers and barriers; Social navigation. Part 2 Two practices in information sharing: Introducing the two cases; Claims handlers; Expert organisation. Part 3 Insights into information, knowledge sharing and social capital: Dimensions of social capital in the two cases; Social capital and sharing – building structures for knowledge sharing and its management; Importance of the awareness of social capital in connection with information and knowledge sharing in today’s companies.

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Gunilla Widen-Wulff is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She has worked as a visiting researcher at Napier University, Edinburgh, 2004-05. Her teaching and research concerns information seeking, information management in business organizations, and aspects of social capital and knowledge sharing in groups and organizations. She has published several articles and papers in these areas.

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