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Knowledge Groupware and the Internet

Knowledge Groupware and the Internet details the convergence of modern knowledge management theory and emerging computer technologies and discusses how they collectively enable business change and enhance an organization's ability to create and share knowledge. This compendium of authoritative articles explains the relationship between knowledge management and two major technologies enabling it: Groupware and the Internet. These critical technologies help an organization evolve from individual to group knowledge quickly make tacit knowledge explicit and enable people to use and apply this knowledge. Knowledge Groupware and the Internet helps readers understand how to unite the people and technologies that define effective knowledge management.

Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems

Pulished in 2000 a selection of contributions presented in 1998 at the conference of Udine entitled The Development of Industrial Districts in Italy. The theoretical aim of the book is to explain the dynamic mechanism of the growth of Italian industrial districts shifting attention from Marshallian industrial districts where focus is not just on the decentralization of production among small-batch firms. Determinant factors explaining growth seem related to the ways in which firms explore the markets learn tacit knowledge network with subcontractors and make incremental innovations. In substance the work offers a cognitive approach to the issue of industrial districts. | Evolutionary Patterns of Local Industrial Systems

Professional Uncertainty Knowledge and Relationship in the Classroom A psychosocial perspective

The extent to which teachers should make use of theoretical and expert knowledge as opposed to tacit experiential knowledge and how these might be combined is a perennial issue in discussions on pedagogy. This book addresses these debates through a creative development of the concept of productive uncertainty. Using case studies focusing on teachers working with children with autism a particularly fertile crucible for considering uncertainty the book explores how the radical 20th century psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion's epistemological approach to uncertainty can be used to re-frame Donald Schön's concept of reflection in action offering a new perspective on the practice of teachers and other caring professionals. Several areas of potential uncertainty are identified including uncertainty relating to areas of practice including diagnosis the relationship between expert knowledge and practice the implications of autism for autonomy and agency and uncertainties in relation to the understanding of and use of new technologies. A strong argument is made based on both theoretical and empirical grounds that in juggling between theoretical and tacit knowledge in the classroom there is more to be gained by staying with the struggle with uncertainty than by fleeing from it too early into the promise of expert solutions. Consideration is also given to the relative importance of specific theoretical training for teachers both in general and in relation to working with children with special educational needs in the context of international and UK policy developments in this area. This book will be of key value to researchers and postgraduates in the fields of education studies teacher thinking and research psychoanalytically informed psychosocial studies as well as to practitioners working in special educational needs/autism education. | Professional Uncertainty Knowledge and Relationship in the Classroom A psychosocial perspective

Theology and Climate Change

Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change. PDT is a distinctive and Western form of Christian theology out of which the modern scientific revolution and technological modernity arises. Basic attitudes to nature to instrumental power over nature and to an understanding of humanity’s relationship with nature are a function of the deep theological preconditions of Western modernity. Much of what we like about Western modernity is indebted to PDT at the same time that this tacit cultural theology is propelling us towards climate disaster. This text argues that the urgent need to change the fundamental operational assumptions of our way of life is now very hard for us to do because secular modernity is now largely unaware of its tacit theological commitments. Modern consumer society including the global economy that supports this way of life could not have the operational signatures it currently has without its distinctive theological origin and its ongoing submerged theological assumptions. Some forms of Christian theology are now acutely aware of this dynamic and are determined to change the modern life-world from first assumptions up in order to avert climate disaster. At the same time that other forms of Christian theology – aligned with pragmatic fossil fuel interests – advance climate change skepticism and overtly uphold PDT. Theology is in fact crucially integral with the politics of climate change but this is not often understood in anything more than simplistic and polemically expedient ways in environmental and policy contexts. This text aims to dis-imbed climate change politics from polarized and unfruitful slinging-matches between conservatives and progressives of all or no religious commitments. This fascinating volume is a must read for those with an interest in environmental policy concerns and in culturally embedded first-order belief commitments.

Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities. It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries including Bulgaria France Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain Turkey and the UK as well as Australia Canada Cameroon Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles). | Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

Architecture and Identity Responses to Cultural and Technological Change

Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity formation. From his earliest writings predicting the computer-based revolution in customized architectural production through his novel studies on ‘tacit knowing’ in design or hybridization in regional and colonial architecture to his radical theory of the ‘extended self’ Abel has been a consistently fresh and provocative thinker contesting both conventions and intellectual fashions. This revised third edition includes a new introduction and six additional chapters by the author covering a broad range of related topics up to recent concerns with genetic design methods and virtual selves. Together with the former essays the book presents a unique global perspective on the changing cultural issues and technologies shaping human identities and the built environment in diverse parts of the world both East and West. | Architecture and Identity Responses to Cultural and Technological Change

Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks Decode the Critical Thinking of Your Discipline

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks – the places where students get stuck – that impede learners’ paths to expert thinking in a discipline. The process is based on recognizing the gap between novice learning and expert thinking and uncovering tacit knowledge that may not be made manifest in teaching. Through “decoding” implicit expert knowledge can be turned into explicit mental tasks and made available to students. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them. The authors explain how to apply the seven steps of Decoding the Disciplines – how to identify bottlenecks unpack the critical thinking of experts teach students how to do this kind of thinking and how to evaluate the degree to which students have learned to do it. They provide in-depth descriptions of each step and at the end of each chapter at least one exercise the reader can do on his or her own. Because the decoding process works well with groups they also provide exercises for leading groups through the process making available to informal groups as well as groups led by professional developers the tools to transform their understanding of teaching and learning by getting the student view that they refer to as “the bottleneck perspective”. Because it focuses on the mental moves that underlie the cognitive competencies we want students to develop spelling out what critical thinking consists of for any field the methodology helps teachers to get beyond focus on content delivery and transmission and provides criteria to select from the bewildering array of teaching tools the methods most appropriate to what they are teaching. This is a book for faculty who want their students to develop disciplinary forms of reasoning and are moreover interested in a methodology with the potential to transform and reinvigorate their teaching. It is particularly suitable for use in communities of practice and should be indispensable for any one engaged in cross-disciplinary teaching as it enables co-teachers to surface each other’s tacit knowledge and disciplinary assumptions. | Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks Decode the Critical Thinking of Your Discipline

Data Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emerging Economies

This book focuses on understanding the analytics knowledge management process and its comprehensive application to various socioeconomic sectors. Using cases from Latin America and other emerging economies it examines analytics knowledge applications where a solution has been achieved. Written for business students and professionals as well as researchers the book is filled with practical insight into applying concepts and implementing processes and solutions. The eleven case studies presented in the book incorporate the whole analytics process and are useful reference examples for applying the analytics process for SME organizations in both developing and developed economies. The cases also identify multiple tacit factors to deal with during the implementation of analytics knowledge management processes. These factors which include data cleaning data gathering and interpretation of results are not always easily identified by analytics practitioners. This book promotes the understanding of analytics methods and techniques. It guides readers through numerous techniques and methods available to analytics practitioners by explaining the strengths and weaknesses of these methods and techniques. | Data Analytics Applications in Latin America and Emerging Economies

Marxism and Psychoanalysis In or against Psychology?

The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book the discipline of psychology itself is screened through the twin dynamics of Marxism and psychoanalysis. David Pavón-Cuéllar asks to what extent the terms concerns and goals of psychology reflect in fact the dominant bourgeois ideology that has allowed it to flourish. The book charts a gradual psychologization within society and culture dating from the nineteenth century and examines how the tacit ideals within mainstream psychology – creating good citizens or productive workers – sit uneasily against Marx and Freud’s ambitions of revealing fault-lines and contradictions within individualist and consumer-oriented structures. The positivist aspiration of psychology to become a natural science has been the source of extensive debate critical voices asserting the social and cultural contexts through which the human mind and behaviour should be understood. This challenging new book provides another voice that in addressing two of the most influential intellectual traditions of the past 150 years widens the debate still further to examine the foundations of psychology. | Marxism and Psychoanalysis In or against Psychology?

Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

In this third book of the Shingo Model series Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection embrace scientific thinking focus on process assure quality at the source and improve flow and pull. Each chapter in Continuous Improvement is designed to enhance your comprehension of one or more aspects of the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and to increase your understanding of how the dimension interrelates with and complements the other principles in the Shingo Model. Ultimately this explanation grounds the technical science of continuous improvement with a powerful social science that focuses on people development. It is this combination that creates the opportunity for improvement to be truly continuous. Because tacit learning is critical to deepening your continuous improvement knowledge Reader Challenges are included throughout the text to encourage you to apply what you have read within the context of your own organization. This hands-on practice is necessary to understand the interrelatedness of principles systems and tools that are inherent in the Shingo Model. The Shingo Institute recognizes that the transformation from traditional philosophy and practices to organizational excellence does not occur without the courage creativity and persistence of everyone in the organization—from executives to managers to team members on the frontline. | Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

Intersections of Tourism Migration and Exile

This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism migration and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions yet they often intertwine overlap and influence one another. Tourism migration and exile evoke widely varying policies diverse popular reactions and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender class ethnic and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people’s movements? This book presents 12 predominantly ethnographic case studies from around the world and a pandemic-focused conclusion that address these issues. In recounting and juxtaposing stories of refugees’ and migrants’ returns marriage migrants voluntourists migrant retirees migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs mobile investors and professionals and refugees pursuing educational mobility this book cultivates more nuanced insights into intersecting forms of mobility. Ultimately this work promises to foster not only empathy but also greater resolve for forging trails toward mobility justice. This accessibly written volume will be essential to scholars and students in critical migration tourism and refugee studies including anthropologists sociologists human geographers and researchers in political science and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to non-academic professionals and general readers interested in contemporary mobilities. | Intersections of Tourism Migration and Exile

Knowledge Management in Practice

This evidence-based book provides the framework and guidelines that professionals need for working with the contemporary explosion of data that is creating opportunities and challenges to all phases of our society and commerce. –Larry R. Medsker Research Professor in Physics and Data Science The George Washington UniversityKnowledge Management in Practice is a resource on how knowledge management (KM) is implemented. It provides specific KM methods tips techniques and best practices to gain competitive advantage and the most from investing in KM. It examines how KM is leveraged by first responders the military healthcare providers insurance and financial services companies legal firms human resources departments merger and acquisition (M&A) firms and research institutions. Essential KM concepts are explored not only from a foundational perspective but also from a practical application. These concepts include capturing and codifying tacit and explicit knowledge KM methods information architecture search KM and social media KM and Big Data and the adoption of KM. Readers can visit the book’s companion website KM Mentor (www. KMMentor. com) where they can access:Presentations by industry leaders on a variety of topicsKM templates and instruction on executing KM strategy performing knowledge transfer and KM assessments and auditsKM program and project implementation guidanceInsights and reviews on KM toolsGuidance on implementing and executing various KM MethodsSpecialized KM publicationsA private secure collaboration community for members to discuss ideas and get expert answers and advice

Psychological Metaphysics

The research literature on causal attribution and social cognition generally consists of many fascinating but fragmented and superficial phenomena. These can only be understood as an organised whole by elucidating the fundamental psychological assumptions on which they depend. Originally published in 1993 Psychological Metaphysics is an exploration of the most basic and important assumptions in the psychological construction of reality with the aim of showing what they are how they originate and what they are there for. Peter A. White proposes that people basically understand causation in terms of stable specific powers of things operating to produce effects under suitable conditions. This underpins an analysis of people’s understanding of causal processes in the physical word and of human action which makes a radical break with the Heiderian tradition. Psychological Metaphysics suggests that causal attribution is in the service of the person’s practical concerns and any interest in accuracy or understanding is subservient to this. A notion of regularity in the world is of no more than minor importance in causal attribution and social cognition is not so much a matter of cognitive mechanisms or processes but more of cultural ways of thinking imposed upon tacit unquestioned universal assumptions. Psychological Metaphysics incorporates not only research and theory in social cognition and developmental psychology but also philosophy and the history of ideas. It will be challenging to everyone interested in how we try to understand the world.

Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life and whose ideas of morality propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in urban life? Rather than philosophizing the ‘good’ and proper life in cities the book considers what happens when urban conflicts and urban futures are carried out as conflicts over the good and proper life in cities. It offers an understanding of how ethical discourses ideals and values are harmonized with material interests of different groups taking up cases studies about environmental protection co-housing schemes political protest heritage preservation participatory planning collaborative art production and other topics from different eras and parts of the globe. This book offers multidisciplinary insights ethnographic research and conceptual tools and resources to explore and better understand such conflicts. It questions the ways in which urban ethics draw on tacit moral economies of urban life and the ways in which such moral economies become explicit political and programmatic. Chapters 1 and 11 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Urban Ethics Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform the burning of German flags newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical images of ‘the other’. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national prejudices by politicians and parts of the media and the strong emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of public concern about the likely negative implications of such reawakening of national clichés and the newly hardening boundaries they construct for the process of European integration. It is evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of and in response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At the same time some of the interpretative and political reactions thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive processes putting into question years of integration efforts. This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis national identities and the use of historical images and prejudices and stereotypes by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. In addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse national settings across Europe the different contributions discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national identities prejudice and stereotyping in the context of socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities. | Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling Learning Design Through Analogy

This book introduces students practitioners and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge. A step-by-step process has readers consider their knowledge of language as metaphorically related to basic design and landscape design. Through information delivery and questioning processes readers build on what they already know their tacit understanding of language as applied to problem solving and storytelling. Everyone is a storyteller. Taken one step at a time through a three-tiered analogy of language basic design and landscape design readers learn the makeup and role of such design features as points lines planes volumes and sequential volumetric spaces that make up their worlds. With that in a sense new world view and numerous questions and examples readers begin to see that they in fact daily read the environments in which they live work play raise families and grow old. Once they realize how they read their surroundings they are helped to recognize that they can build narratives into their surroundings. At that point the existence of authored landscape narratives finds readers understanding a design process that relies on the designer-as-author landscape-as-text and participant user-as-reader. That process has the reader write a first- or second-person narrative visually interpret the written narrative into a storyboard and turn the storyboard into a final design the physical makeup of which is read by those who participate in it. | Landscape Architecture as Storytelling Learning Design Through Analogy

Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group‘s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture. | Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Beyond Liberalism

In Beyond Nihilism Michael Polanyi argued that a merely negative liberty of doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon the equal liberty of others - must and has led to destructive nihilism and a fierce reaction to collectivism. R. T. Allen takes up this argument in Beyond Liberalism and shows how Polanyi's political philosophy evolved into a more positive and distinctly conservative concept of liberty converging upon the archetypal conservatism of Edmund Burke. Allen examines Polanyi's and F. A. Hayek's thinking with respect to the nature value and foundations of liberty. Negative and positive liberties are two sides of one liberty and Allen believes negative conceptions of liberty are as dangerous as positive ones. He distinguishes among general and abstract definitions of liberty and shows how all including that of Hayek ultimately dissolve. According to Allen only tacit conceptions of liberty such as those of Burke and Polanyi prove viable. This is because they rest on concrete tradition. Allen examines how the skeptical rationalist and utilitarian philosophies of Ludwig von Mises and Sir Karl Popper fail to support the value of liberty and even proved to be destructive of it. Allen argues that society cannot rely upon the classically liberal notion of contract but rather upon prescriptive and inherited obligations. In turn this means that citizens have positive as well as negative duties to each other and the body politic of which they are part and upon whose support liberty depends. A free society is held together by emotional bonds and the traditions and rituals that sustain them. A free society also presupposes that the individual has inherent value in and for himself. For R. T. Allen only Christianity and certainly no modern philosophy has a conception of the unique individual and his irreplaceable value and of a political order that transcends itself into the moral order. Even Polanyi's liberty is ultimately insufficient for it gives no inherent value to the person himself but instead to the ideals which he serves. Beyond Liberalism challenges deeply ingrained notions of liberty and its meaning in modern society. It is a call for traditions of self-restraint and justice for their own sakes. This noteworthy volume is an essential addition to the libraries of political scientists philosophers and theologians alike.