VINE: Volume 44 Issue 4

Strategic toolkits practice and performance: a German SME perspective

Richard Wagner, Robert A. Paton

This paper aims to explore to what extent senior executives, particularly within the German machinery and equipment small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), gather and apply…

Diversity of knowledge in patent co-authorship networks – case studies in the Victorian biotechnology industry

Adel Moslehi, Henry Linger, Kerry Tanner

The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of k-networks in knowledge creation, as existing literature argues that network structure does not provide sufficient…

Usage, benefits and barriers of human resource information system in universities

Nisha Bamel, Umesh Kumar Bamel, Vinita Sahay, Mohan Thite

The purpose of this paper is to examine the university teaching staff’s perception about functions, benefits and barriers of human resource information system (HRIS). It also aims…

Performance and visibility of Indian Research Institutions on the web

Sheikh Mohammad Shafi, Mohammad Hanief Bhat

This study aims to examine the performance of Indian research Institutions’ websites using webometrics by investigating their visibility, traffic ranks, number of links, time on…

The map is not the territory: the missing patient in the electronic medical record

Faleh Alshameri, Debra Hockenberry, Robert B. Doll

This paper aims to, by looking at the electronic medical record (EMR) from three points of view, bring light to the dynamics that are essential and are currently missing in the…

A framework for dealing with fundamental knowledge problems through social media

Harri Jalonen

This paper aims to argue that the value of social media in knowledge management (KM) can be evaluated on the basis of how social media helps to overcome four generic knowledge…

An investigation into knowledge acquisition idiosyncrasies in Ghanaian universities

Henry Boateng, Michael Dzigbordi Dzandu, Yinshan Tang

This paper aims to fill the research and knowledge gap in knowledge management studies in Ghana. Knowledge acquisition is one of the unexploited areas in knowledge management…