The persistence and transfer of learning in industrial settings
Management Science
Economic analysis of microcomputer hardware
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation
Investment in knowledge: a generalization of learning by experience
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Activity theory as a potential framework for human-computer interaction research
Context and consciousness
Designing educational technology: computer-mediated change
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Exploring Depth Versus Breadth in Knowledge Management Strategies
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Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
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Optimal Investment in Knowledge Within a Firm Using a Market Mechanism
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Knowledge portals and the emerging digital knowledge workplace
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The Economics of Knowledge
General Perspectives on Knowledge Management: Fostering a Research Agenda
Journal of Management Information Systems
Organizational Knowledge Management: A Contingency Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge Management Strategies: Toward a Taxonomy
Journal of Management Information Systems
Corporate portals: a literature review of a new concept in Information Management
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
A user-oriented model for global enterprise portal design
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Emergency communication and system design: the case of Indian ocean tsunami
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Editor's comments: perspectives on time
MIS Quarterly
Decision-making in-socio and in-situ: Facilitation in virtual worlds
Decision Support Systems
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The cognitive selection framework for knowledge acquisition strategies in virtual communities
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Entrepreneurship, knowledge integration capability, and firm performance: An empirical study
Information Systems Frontiers
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An enterprise information portal (EIP) is viewed as a knowledge community. Activity theory provides a framework to study such a community: members of an EIP conduct specific tasks that are assigned through a division of labor. Each member of an enterprise information portal can undergo three distinct types of learning processes: learning-by-investment, learning-by-doing, and learning-from-others. Through these three types of learning processes, each member achieves specialized knowledge that is related to his or her own task. Cumulative knowledge resulting from the learning processes is considered in terms of two distinct attributes: depth and breadth of knowledge. This paper formulates a mathematical model and defines the goal of an EIP member as maximizing the net benefits of knowledge resulting from individual investment and effort. Numerical examples are provided to analyze patterns of optimal investment and effort plans as well as the resulting accumulated knowledge. The results provide useful managerial implications. In business conditions characterized by high interest rates or high internal rate of returns, it is preferable for members to delay spending their resources for learning. Intensive investment and efforts to obtain knowledge are preferable when the discount rate of costs is high, when knowledge is durable, when the value of knowledge is high, when the initial level of knowledge is high, when the productivity of the learning process is high, and when sufficient knowledge is transferred from other members. On the other hand, the size of the EIP has a positive or negative effect depending on the attribute of knowledge and the productivity of learning processes. Further properties of the optimal decisions and learning processes are analyzed and discussed.