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Selected AbstractsKnowledge management in the professional organization: a model with application to CMG software testingKNOWLEDGE AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT: THE JOURNAL OF CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION, Issue 2 2003Cesanne Kerkhof Knowledge and the management of knowledge are recognized as becoming more important to modern organizations. Unfortunately, modern literature is not clear on the ways to implement knowledge management in practice. This article presents a model for this purpose, dedicated to professional organizations. Present theories about knowledge, learning organizations and knowledge transfer form the basis of the model. The model is applied to CMG Software Testing. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Fish movement and habitat use depends on water body size and shapeECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER FISH, Issue 1 2009D. A. Woolnough Abstract,,, Home ranges are central to understanding habitat diversity, effects of fragmentation and conservation. The distance that an organism moves yields information on life history, genetics and interactions with other organisms. Present theory suggests that home range is set by body size of individuals. Here, we analyse estimates of home ranges in lakes and rivers to show that body size of fish and water body size and shape influence home range size. Using 71 studies including 66 fish species on five continents, we show that home range estimates increased with increasing water body size across water body shapes. This contrasts with past studies concluding that body size sets home range. We show that water body size was a consistently significant predictor of home range. In conjunction, body size and water body size can provide improved estimates of home range than just body size alone. As habitat patches are decreasing in size worldwide, our findings have implications for ecology, conservation and genetics of populations in fragmented ecosystems. [source] A constructive proof of the Peter-Weyl theoremMLQ- MATHEMATICAL LOGIC QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2005Thierry Coquand Abstract We present a new and constructive proof of the Peter-Weyl theorem on the representations of compact groups. We use the Gelfand representation theorem for commutative C*-algebras to give a proof which may be seen as a direct generalization of Burnside's algorithm [3]. This algorithm computes the characters of a finite group. We use this proof as a basis for a constructive proof in the style of Bishop. In fact, the present theory of compact groups may be seen as a natural continuation in the line of Bishop's work on locally compact, but Abelian, groups [2]. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source] Theories of Strategic Nonmarket Participation: Majority-Rule and Executive InstitutionsJOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, Issue 1 2001David P. Baron This paper presents theories of strategic nonmarket participation in majority-rule and executive institutions and develops from those theories a set of principles for nonmarket strategy. The theories are based on models of vote recruitment in client and interest-group politics and on models of common agency. The basic strategies developed are majority building, vote recruitment, agenda setting, rent-chain mobilization, majority protection, and competitive agenda setting and vote recruitment. [source] Affiliation, integration, and information: ownership incentives and industry structureTHE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Issue 2 2004Thomas N. Hubbard This paper presents theory and evidence on horizontal industry structure. At issue is the question: what makes industries necessarily fragmented? The theoretical model examines trade-offs associated with affiliation and integration, and how they are affected by the contracting environment. I show how contractual incompleteness can lead industries to be necessarily fragmented. I also show that contractual improvements will tend to lead to a greater concentration of brands, but whether they lead industries to be more or less concentrated depends on what becomes contractible. I then discuss the propositions generated by the model through a series of case study examples. [source] | ||||||||||