This study offers a detailed case study of how Toyota facilitates interorganizational knowledge transfers among within its production network. In particular, we identiify and examine six key institutionalized knowledge sharing routines developed by Toyota and its suppliers. By examining how…

2013

Objective: Medical genetics presents great potential for improving healthcare outcomes, but faces challenges for managing the test results. This paper focuses on the gaps in clinician knowledge regarding genetic testing and asks what health information technologies (IT) can help non-specialists…

El concepto de gremio trófico es útil para el avance en el conocimiento de la estructura trófica de las comunidades, las interacciones entre especies, el reconocimiento de los servicios ecosistémicos que proveen, la respuesta al cambio climático, las estrategias de…

Most neural network learning algorithms cannot use knowledge other than what is provided in the training data. Initialized using random weights, they cannot use prior knowledge such as knowledge stored in previously trained networks. This manuscript thesis addresses this problem.…

This paper demonstrates the importance of knowledge for effective
management of outsourcing. Drawing on an empirical study on automakers?
management of supplier involvement in product development in Japan, this paper shows
that the level of own knowledge is critical for…

Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of
the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the
relationship between a Japanese supplier's "customer scope strategy" (i.e. number of
customers) and the supplier's…

The goal of this article is to present the first results of a study looking forward to propose a model of software development for a physically distributed environment (United States and Brazil). Thus, the objective is to combine empirical and…

A literature analysis of 158 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals indexed by the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge from 1994 to 2013 showed that CO2C emission was significantly lower in free water surface (FWS) constructed wetlands (CW) than in…

O estudo tem como propósito analisar as representações de agricultoras, esposas de assentados, em relação à organização espacial na conformação do Assentamento Mato Grande, em Corumbá, MS. O assentamento rural foi criado em 1988, e foram assentadas 50 famílias, sendo…