Despite the widely recognised importance of knowledge as a vital source of¡@competitive advantage, there is little understanding of how groups actually create and manage knowledge dynamically. Knowledge conversion is a continuous, self-transcending process through which one transcends the boundary of the old self into a new self by acquiring a new context, a new view of the world, and new knowledge. An organisation creates knowledge through the interactions between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. Through the conversion process, tacit and explicit knowledge expands in both quality and quantity. There are four modes of knowledge conversion. They are: (1) socialisation; (2) externalisation; (3) combination; and (4) internalisation. We try to use the conversion model to be our theorical base. And use grounded theory to be out research mehod. Through the real data, we come out some factors impacting the Information System Develop Team¡¦s knowledge conversion.

A Study of factors Influencing Consumers¡¦ Trust in Fortune-Telling Websites Abstract Many people still worry the security problem of shopping on the Internet, although Internet shopping is getting more and more popular. Based on a survey in Asia Pacific region in 2001 by VISA, Taiwanese interviewees have the lowest trust in online shopping. It would seriously impede the development of electronic commerce. However, on the other hand, Fortune-Telling, a very popular activity in Chinese community for thousand of years, has been embedded in almost every hot portal website and become its milk cow. Consumers are willing to not only pay a fee for the service, but also disclose personal information such as birth date, etc. If we can understand more about how consumers¡¦ trust in Fortune Telling website are influenced, it would give some implications for a website to get more trust from its consumers. The purpose of this research is to find factors influencing consumers¡¦ trust in Fortune-Telling websites. This research adopts three major research methods: experiment, interview and grounded theory. Based on literature review and an interview to a professional fortune-teller, a primitive conceptual research framework is developed and an experimental fortune-telling web site is thus established. There are twenty subjects joining the experiment. Most of subjects are interviewed twice, before and after learning the fortune telling results. Then the grounded theory research procedure is applied to the conversations of interviews. Finally, a consumer trust model of the fortune-telling website is established. The model shows that Well-Known, Product, Profession& Integrity, and Content of Website are main factors influencing customers¡¦ trust. Key words: trust, electronic commerce, fortune-telling, grounded theory, trust model

<p>Background: Information technology (IT) has drastically changed the traditional way to do business. In theory,</p><p>coordinating information sharing among organisational partners offers notable advantages through cost savings,</p><p>productivity, improved decision making, and better customer service. Supported by modern information technology,</p><p>business processes can change and be developed into new more effective forms, both internally and externally.</p><p>However, as IT facilitates new business opportunities, it requires a steady flow of information and information</p><p>exchange, both within intra- and inter-organisational contexts where a consensus on terms and definitions</p><p>coordinating the uniform communication is vital.</p><p>Purpose: With the focal point on inter-organisational information exchange, the purpose of the thesis is to define</p><p>a set of guidelines for AI that can be used and adjusted according to the needs of a specific situation or context.</p><p>Method: The thesis was carried out with a Multi Grounded Theory approach. Interviews were conducted at a local</p><p>IT-company and with an associate professor of Informatics at Jönköping International Business School.</p><p>Results: Five categories were discovered which impact AI: integration governance, project management, context, integration</p><p>content, and testing. The result also implied the importance to distinguish between an operational and strategic level</p><p>when working with Application Integration.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2001. / Typescript. Bibliographical references: leaf 287-297.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1999. Graduate Programme in Psychology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-130). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ43417.

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) including coronary artery disease and stroke is a significant health problem in Japan regardless of well established health care and insurance system and various public campaigns and exhibitions in the contemporary Japanese society. Higher and increasing prevalence and incidence of well-known risk factor of CVD may contribute to increasing mortality and morbidity of CVD in the future. However, limited knowledge was available for understanding perceptions of risk for CVD among Japanese adults. This grounded theory study aimed to explore social psychological process in perception of risk for CVD among Japanese adults.There were a total of 26 individuals participated in this study. Participants consisted of 19 Japanese adults with at least one CVD risk factor and 7 Japanese health care providers residing or working in which a consistently high mortality rate of CVD in both men and women.The theory grounded from the data was a process to avoid serious physical, emotional, social, and financial suffering as a consequence of developing CVD or of leaving it untreated and a process to maintain a good relationship with risk for CVD among Japanese adults with CVD risk factors. This grounded theory was consisted of the central concept of perceived risk for CVD, which defined as fear, threats, sorrow, worries, and/or anxiety for possible adverse impacts on their life living with their family and suffering for loss of independence and quality of life consequent upon CVD. This central concept was followed by actions to avoid these adverse and excruciating consequences of CVD including changing behavior, taking measures to manage CVD risk, and continually evaluating their condition. Factors contributed to perception of risk for CVD among Japanese adults were seriousness and severity of consequences of CVD, susceptibility, proneness, and possibility to develop CVD, and Japanese specific contextual factors.This study may contribute to appropriately addressing perception of risk for CVD and behavior change among Japanese adults with risk factors for CVD within the unique social, cultural context of Japan. The results of this study could apply to better nursing practice for CVD risk management and health promotion in Japan.

Quality end-of-life care in the adult critical care remains a high priority for numerous professional agencies and organizations due to advanced technologies that sustain or extent life, regardless of life quality. The purpose of this study was to describe how family members of patients in adult critical care attain awareness that their loved one is dying or near death in the adult critical care setting. Two research questions were addressed: 1) What is the human-environment health process of knowing that end-of-life is imminent by family members of patients in the adult critical care area?, and 2) What factors influence the human-environment health process of knowing that end-of-life is imminent by family members in the adult critical care area? A Glaserian grounded theory design was utilized to conduct this retrospective study. Both primary (interviews) and secondary (poem, nursing art, song, media and film) data sources supported the emerging theory. The Process of Death Imminence Awareness by Family Members of Patients in Adult Critical Care contained six phases: Patient's Near Death Awareness, Dying Right in Front of Me, Turning Points in the Patient's Condition, No Longer the Person I Once Knew, Doing Right by Them, and Time to Let Go. Influencing factors associated with this process were discussed as process facilitators and hindrances. Supportive nursing behaviors and actions as well as family member's emotional, behavioral, and physical reactions to having a critically ill family member were also discussed. This substantive theory will guide nursing education, practice, and research in the creation of nursing interventions, instrumentation, protocols, and policies and procedures aimed at providing cost effective quality end-of-life care in this specialized area of care.

In breast cancer patients, symptoms of depression decrease quality of life and may have other serious consequences, such as increasing mortality. Few studies have focused on psychosocial issues and their relation to breast cancer in African-American women. Thus, only limited information has been published on the breast cancer experience of African American women. A grounded theory approach was used to explicate the social psychological and social structural processes of African American women with breast cancer experiencing depressive symptoms. The sample included nine African American women with breast cancer who experienced depressive symptoms. Unstructured interviews were conducted with each participant.Data were analyzed using the constant comparison method. The data indicated that African American women used the basic social process of Transcending the now to manage the basic social problem of having breast cancer and experiencing depressive symptoms. The five phases of the basic social psychological (BSP) process Transcending the Now that emerged during data analysis were Relying on Faith, Being Strong, Seeking Support, Dealing with Life Too, and Enduring Breast Cancer. The findings of this study provide nurses with new knowledge regarding the experience of depressive symptoms in African American women with breast cancer and provide a theory of transcending that can be used in building a research-based practice.