title: Understanding the specificity and complexity of  inter-firm knowledge flows in alliance networks

authors: Ding, Qiang

subjects: inter-firm knowledge transfer

abstract: Research on inter-firm knowledge transfer is burgeoning, yet our understanding of its specificity and complexity in the context of alliance networks remains rather unclear. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge-specific characteristics, such as a partner’s knowledge base, learning intent, absorptive capacity, knowledge protectiveness, and cultural distance each impact differently on knowledge transfer performance in alliances. This paper suggests that, although the emergence of alliances provides an ideal platform for acquiring knowledge resources, certain challenges are still embedded in inter-firm knowledge transfer process. We also suggest that certain moderating relationship factors (including intensive interaction, inter-partner trust relationship and cognitive shared understanding) may help us understand knowledge transfer in cross-cultural alliance settings. By aggregating and consolidating existing research, our study identifies promising avenues for future research.

text: Understanding the specificity and complexity of  inter-firm knowledge flows in alliance networks Research on inter-firm knowledge transfer is burgeoning, yet our understanding of its specificity and complexity in the context of alliance networks remains rather unclear. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge-specific characteristics, such as a partner’s knowledge base, learning intent, absorptive capacity, knowledge protectiveness, and cultural distance each impact differently on knowledge transfer performance in alliances. This paper suggests that, although the emergence of alliances provides an ideal platform for acquiring knowledge resources, certain challenges are still embedded in inter-firm knowledge transfer process. We also suggest that certain moderating relationship factors (including intensive interaction, inter-partner trust relationship and cognitive shared understanding) may help us understand knowledge transfer in cross-cultural alliance settings. By aggregating and consolidating existing research, our study identifies promising avenues for future research.

year: 2009

title: Metadata and organizational structures in personal photograph digital libraries

authors: Cunningham, Sally Jo

subjects: computer science

abstract: We examine the ‘native’ metadata and organizational structures that individuals create for their personal photo digital libraries, by analyzing the behaviour of photo collectors as recorded in 37 autoethnographies and ethnographies. The findings confirm several common assumptions about how people organize their photos that have been the basis for features in earlier photo digital libraries- that photos are commonly organized by time, event, and location, and that collection owners create very little metadata manually. We discuss alternate sources of metadata that arise as a consequence of sharing photos, and consider additional features for photo digital libraries that may be useful in supporting searching and browsing of personal collections.

text: Metadata and organizational structures in personal photograph digital libraries We examine the ‘native’ metadata and organizational structures that individuals create for their personal photo digital libraries, by analyzing the behaviour of photo collectors as recorded in 37 autoethnographies and ethnographies. The findings confirm several common assumptions about how people organize their photos that have been the basis for features in earlier photo digital libraries- that photos are commonly organized by time, event, and location, and that collection owners create very little metadata manually. We discuss alternate sources of metadata that arise as a consequence of sharing photos, and consider additional features for photo digital libraries that may be useful in supporting searching and browsing of personal collections.

year: 2007

title: Decolonising professional learning: Weaving a whānau of interest

authors: Pennicott, Katie

subjects: educational leadership

abstract: Raranga (weaving) has been described as an act of decolonisation and resistance. In my experience, learning to weave was more than an act of learning the tikanga (rituals) and methods with which to weave flax and tukutuku (lattice work); it was learning about learning and learning about living, life and all the things that make us who we are. As I experienced and began to understand Māori metaphors such as whanaungatanga, kaupapa, ako and manaakitanga I found that learning the art of weaving shaped me as I shaped the weaving. This thesis ideates a metaphor of weaving to describe a model of cultural and structural school reform that emerged from a school’s teaching and learning collaborations over time. It calls for the weaving of a new, decolonised model of education.

text: Decolonising professional learning: Weaving a whānau of interest Raranga (weaving) has been described as an act of decolonisation and resistance. In my experience, learning to weave was more than an act of learning the tikanga (rituals) and methods with which to weave flax and tukutuku (lattice work); it was learning about learning and learning about living, life and all the things that make us who we are. As I experienced and began to understand Māori metaphors such as whanaungatanga, kaupapa, ako and manaakitanga I found that learning the art of weaving shaped me as I shaped the weaving. This thesis ideates a metaphor of weaving to describe a model of cultural and structural school reform that emerged from a school’s teaching and learning collaborations over time. It calls for the weaving of a new, decolonised model of education.

year: 2020