Volume 26 Issue 3 (2008)
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The Wisdom of Collaborative Network Organizations: Capturing the Value of Networked Individuals
Digital networks, particularly the Internet, are used widely to search for information and to share expertise and knowledge between peers. Such collaborative problem solving and co‐creation of services and products…
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How Institutional Incentives and Constraints Affect the Progress of Science
Scholars studying science policy have long wondered how the progress of science is affected by scientists’ motives, and by the incentives and constraints that scientific institutions create. This paper aims…
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Rethinking Michael Polanyi’s Realism: From Personal Knowledge to Intersubjectively Viable Communication
Fifty years after the publication of Michael Polanyi’s magnum opus, , the fashion for Knowledge Management (KM) has helped to institutionalise a redefinition of his distinction between tacit knowledge and…
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Making Bronco Ropes
In the 1890s and early 1900s H. Compton Trew developed the bronco method of handling cattle for branding and other treatment. His innovation led to new words in the Australian…