This paper seeks to engage the organization theory community in contemporary
debates over the role of the cxxporation in American society by building a stakeholder
theory of the t%n. We develop a set of normative premises and positivist propositions
derived…

Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…

D. Eleanor Westney., Cover title. "Paper prepared for JAIMS conference on 'International Comparative Study of Knowledge Creation', Hawaii, December 12-14, 1996"--Added t.p. "February 1997.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34).

Andreas Gast, Donald R. Lessard., "Presented at the 1997 SMS Conference in Barcelona, Spain.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-32).

David N. Ford and John D. Sterman., Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25)., Supported by the Python organization, the Organizational Learning Center and the System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

by Tracy S. Myers, Robert M. Freund, and Gordon M. Kaufman., Cover title., Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-45).

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply that each element assigns itself a logical coordinate that maps…

Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented
examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our
understanding of the area by developing a typology of corporate householding tasks
and knowledge…

This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to
reducing impediments to collaboration in a
distributed environment. A major impediment to
such collaboration is the issue of communications -
clearly and efficiently expressing the desires of every
stakeholder in the process, as…

We report on a study of how people look for information within email, files, and the Web. When locating a document or searching for a specific answer, people relied on their contextual knowledge of their information target to help them…