<p>The aim of this thesis is to provide a better understanding of how the knowledge creation process can be used to add value to the management of knowledge in a South African organization. This thesis describes, explores and explains how knowledge is created within an organization, how the organization can use it to add value to its current business practices and how a knowledge management methodology that is aligned with the systems thinking principle, can be used to manage the knowledge creation process.</p>

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

This research portfolio consists of three linked research papers aiming to show that knowledge management initiatives can play an important role in achieving practical outcomes and enhancing the competitive advantage of business enterprises. Research paper 1: Knowledge management literature review. Research paper 2: A multiple case study of knowledge management practices in Thai software development companies. Research paper 3: Implications of business outcomes and knowledge sharing behaviours for the Thai software business. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2006.

Paper one provides a historical perspective of how the concept of knowledge moved out from the realms of philosophy into the world of commerce where it is regarded as a strategic asset, thereby motivating attempts at developing frameworks for managing it. / Paper two describes an exploratory survey on the knowledge management (KM) practices of MSC-status companies. These are companies that have registered with the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC), which is a one stop government agency established to promote the development of the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). Amongst others, MSC-status companies must be in knowledge-based businesses such as education, biotechnology, software design, and multimedia content development. Pending the establishment of their operations in the MSC, some MSC-status companies still operate from outside of the MSC, including overseas. MSC-status companies include some of Malaysia's and the world's leading knowledge-based companies. / Paper three describes an exploratory study to investigate the nature of informal knowledge sharing amongst MSC-status companies. Other research indicates that a key attraction for firms to locate in clusters such as California's Silicon Valley seems to be the opportunity for getting valuable information about the industry and the competition by just being in the cluster. The research investigated what informal channels MSC companies normally tap into for obtaining free unintended information exchange about their environment; in conjunction with this, the nature of industry knowledge that gets exchanged informally through such channels were explored. The research also investigated whether there are differences in the way firms tap into their knowledge milieu, depending on whether they operate from inside or outside of the MSC cluster. / Thesis (DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2004.

A fundamental error has dominated philosophy and science since ancient times, the assumption of the existence of the "unicorn-world"-that is, the existence of one unique world. It is one of the oldest and most dominant paradigms in human thinking that has generated many pseudo-problems in philosophy and science. We can identify this thinking paradigm, the unicorn-world, in the majority of myths, theological doctrines, philosophical approaches and scientific theories. In order to avoid this error, in Part I of this thesis, I show that it is necessary to replace the unicorn-world (in which all entities, such as Gods, minds, bodies, planets, tables and micro-particles have been placed all together) with "epistemologically different worlds" (which presuppose that each class of entities forms an epistemological different world). More than three centuries ago, Descartes was aware of the impossibility of solving an "anomaly" (the mind-body problem) but did not realize that the cause of this "mystery" is the unicorn-world. The role of Kantian a priori constitutive elements (categories and pure intuitions) is extended to the epistemologically constitutive interactions among classes of epistemologically different entities that belong to epistemologically different worlds. The consequence of the existence of epistemologically different worlds is that the famous mind-body problem is a false problem or a pseudo-problem. In Part II, from the "epistemologically different worlds" perspective, I analyze notions from: (1) The philosophy of mind and cognitive science (the mind-body problem, emergence and reduction, mental causation and supervenience, levels, etc.) (2) The philosophy of science (Carnap's linguistic frameworks, Quine's and Goodman's relativity, Friedman's relative constitutive a priori principles) and the science of the twentieth century (the relationship between Einstein's theory of relatiVity and quantum mechanics, complementarity and superposition, entanglement, nonlocality and nonseparability from quantum mechanics).

Thesis (Ph.D. (Computer Science)) -- University of Pretoria, 2006.

Inaug.-diss.--Gottingen. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverreichnis": p. [vii].

Thèse--Universit́ede Paris.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1941. / Published also without thesis note. Vita. Bibliography: p. [195]-214.

Thèse--Louvain. / "Université catholique de Louvain. Faculté de philosophie et lettres. 1841-1842. no. I."