Articles in "Information and Knowledge Management"

Embedding reflective practice in undergraduate business and management dissertations

Dissertations can open up opportunities for graduate employment and create research material which can be built on by academics. Reflective practice, as outlined by Schön, encourages the framing and re-framing of questions, with the aim of gaining new insight into an issue.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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High frequency information content in end-user foreign exchange order flows

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Ian Marsh

 et al.

This paper considers the impact of foreign exchange order flows on contemporaneous and future stock market returns using a new database of customer order flows in the €-$ exchange rate market as seen by a leading European bank.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Cass Knowledge video library: 2010-2011

Cass Knowledge video library 2010-2011

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Introduction to Cass research: video series

Cass academic research introduced by Cass academics - in short video format.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Why poor nurse rostering frustrates Government initiatives to reduce spending on temporary staff and facilitate flexible working practices

The production of rosters, while maintaining the correct level of staff coverage, is a highly complex task and is not amenable to solution by manual methods. It's imperative not to break any employment laws or force staff to continually work undesirable shifts, such as a 7 nights in a row, or late shifts followed by an early the next day.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Managing the pain of knowledge-based mergers

Mergers and acquisitions are supposed to create value. For professional service firms (PSFs), which are knowledge-based organizations, this value is created through gaining access to and making effective use of new sources of knowledge. It can be the technical knowledge needed to deliver a professional service or the client knowledge required to tailor that service to a client's needs - and ideally it should be both.

Updated: 21/10/2011
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Cass talks: the role of social media in social change

Clive Holtham, Professor of Information Management and Director, Cass Learning Laboratory, discusses the role of social media in social change in this week's Cass Talks.

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Do we need process of dispute settlement in managing today?

The concept of dispute settlement and its processes can be seen as assisted continuation of negotiation and related to conflict - they are an intervention process and adjunct to collective bargaining (Rowley, 2002a; 2002b).

Updated: 22/09/2011
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Becoming misrepresentations: a taxonomy of strategy schools

The paper argues that scholars have created the literature described by Whittington's Schools by exaggerating some, and suppressing other, deparaoxising strategies. This representation also removes the temporal dimension of strategic issues by seeking to bring the future into the present.

Updated: 02/11/2011
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