Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Contributors |
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The Nature and Dimensions of Knowledge Management |
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10 | (21) |
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10 | (3) |
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Why knowledge management now? The drivers |
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21 | (3) |
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Extra-organisational knowledge and absorptive capacity |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (4) |
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28 | (3) |
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Construction as a Knowledge-Based Industry |
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31 | (19) |
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31 | (1) |
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The construction industry and knowledge-intensive products and services |
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32 | (2) |
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Knowledge production in construction |
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Communicating and sharing knowledge |
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40 | (5) |
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Creating and sustaining a knowledge culture |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (4) |
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47 | (3) |
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Strategies and Business Case for Knowledge Management |
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50 | (15) |
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50 | (1) |
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What does knowledge management mean to construction? |
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50 | (1) |
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What knowledge management strategy should be adopted? |
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51 | (2) |
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Delivering knowledge management in practice |
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53 | (7) |
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A business case for knowledge management |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (2) |
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64 | (1) |
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Organisational Readiness for Knowledge Management |
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65 | (18) |
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65 | (1) |
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The importance of knowledge lifecycle management (KLM) |
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66 | (4) |
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Preparing the organisational context for knowledge lifecycle management |
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70 | (8) |
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78 | (5) |
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79 | (4) |
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Tools and Techniques for Knowledge Management |
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83 | (20) |
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83 | (1) |
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Knowledge management tools |
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84 | (5) |
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Selecting knowledge management tools |
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89 | (6) |
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95 | (4) |
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99 | (4) |
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101 | (2) |
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Cross-Project Knowledge Management |
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103 | (18) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (4) |
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Cross-project knowledge transfer |
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109 | (5) |
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Live capture and reuse of project knowledge |
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114 | (4) |
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118 | (3) |
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119 | (2) |
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Knowledge Management as a Driver for Innovation |
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121 | (11) |
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121 | (2) |
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Knowledge management and innovations: building and maintaining capabilities |
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123 | (3) |
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Knowledge management and improved innovations: issues of strategy, process, structure, culture and technology |
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126 | (2) |
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Managing knowledge for exploiting innovations: implications for managers |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (3) |
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130 | (2) |
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Performance Measurement in Knowledge Management |
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132 | (19) |
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132 | (1) |
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Why measure the performance of knowledge management and knowledge assets? |
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Types of performance measures |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (5) |
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142 | (6) |
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148 | (3) |
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149 | (2) |
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Knowledge Management Strategy Development: A Clever Approach |
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151 | (19) |
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151 | (2) |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (9) |
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Utilisation and evaluation of the framework |
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164 | (1) |
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165 | (5) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (25) |
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170 | (3) |
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173 | (3) |
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176 | (1) |
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Tacit knowledge capture, sharing and reuse |
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177 | (4) |
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Tacit and explicit knowledge capture, sharing and reuse |
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181 | (10) |
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191 | (4) |
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192 | (3) |
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Building a Knowledge-Sharing Culture in Construction Project Teams |
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195 | (18) |
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195 | (1) |
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196 | (7) |
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203 | (7) |
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210 | (3) |
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210 | (3) |
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213 | (6) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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Benefits of knowledge management to construction organisations |
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214 | (1) |
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Issues in knowledge management implementation |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (3) |
Index |
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