Windows XP Gigabook for Dummies or Knowledge Creation Processes

Windows XP Gigabook for Dummies

Author: Doug Low

What’s a Gigabook? A collection of just about everything you need to know on a topic, all in one convenient place!  Windows XP Gigabook For Dummies takes the best from five other For Dummies books and squeezes out everything but the most important stuff. This single super-sized reference — more than 800 pages’ worth — gives you a go-to guide on everything connected with Windows XP, PCs and peripherals, the Internet, Office 2003, and Money 2004. You might think of it as a “greatest hits” collection.

Want to know how to set up, navigate, use, and maintain Windows XP? It’s all in Book I. Book II covers the care and feeding of PCs in general and takes you on a complete tour of peripherals—those add-ons that make computing cool. Want to explore the world via the World Wide Web? Check Book III. And if you finally have to do some work, check into Book IV, where you’ll get the complete story on Office 2003 and Money 2004. You’ll discover how to:

• Customize Windows XP, set up user accounts, and share files

• Work with digital photos, Windows Media Player, and Windows Movie Maker

• Choose a printer, scanner, game hardware, and additional storage

• Set up a wireless home network

• Get online safely, protect your kids, create your own Web pages, and cruise for bargains on eBay

• Use Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Manage your finances with Microsoft Money

Windows XP Gigabook For Dummies is packed with information that’s easy to find and even easier to understand. Keepit handy for reference—you’ll be gigapleased with how useful it is!

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Knowledge Creation Processes: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Knowledge Intensive Firms

Author: Gregorio Martin de Castro

Today the capability to create and apply new knowledge represents one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage. Nevertheless, there are very few empirical studies of this. This book develops an improved and extended theoretical model about knowledge creation and transfer within organizations and tests it empirically with a survey in 115 knowledge-intensive firms. The results show the different knowledge creation processes employed by firms in practice and allow us to obtain evidence-driven models of the various foms of knowledge creation process.

Table of Contents:

List of Tables     vii
List of Figures     x
Introduction     xii
The Knowledge Society and Inter-Firm Competition     1
The evolution of economic activity: towards the Knowledge Society     1
Characteristics of the Knowledge Economy     9
Inter-firm competition, learning, and knowledge     25
An Approach to Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The EO-SECI Model     48
Towards the formulation of a model of knowledge creation and organizational learning     50
General framework of analysis: the EO-SECI model     54
Specific framework of analysis     61
Designing the Empirical Research     64
Sampling procedures     64
Measurement tools     74
Stages for data gathering     96
Research Results     99
Preliminary analysis     100
Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: knowledge creation and transfer processes in knowledge-intensive firms     109
Conclusions     162
Preliminary conclusions     162
Limitations of the work     167
Annexes     169
References     189
Index     199