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dc.contributor.authorGuzman, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorTrivelato, Luiz F
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:48:56Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:48:56Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2013-05-29T08:39:36Z
dc.identifier.issn0018-1560
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10734-010-9398-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/36798
dc.description.abstractThe progressive deployment of market-oriented regulatory frameworks in mass Higher Education Institutions (MHEI hereafter) triggered, in a wide variety of forms and degrees, the application of Knowledge Management principles in MHEI. This means the application of the knowledge 'codification strategy', where the focus is on the economies of the re-use of centrally developed knowledge through codifying, storing and distributing knowledge. This process however, presents significant challenges. Both knowledge and non-knowledge related aspects might constrain the application of knowledge codification strategies in MHEI. The aim of this paper is to better understand the application of knowledge codification strategies in MHEI, from a knowledge management perspective. This is done by examining the use of course outlines as the critical means to 'transfer' codified knowledge. The research site was a MHEI that explicitly followed a 'codification strategy', where the profits come from the economies of scale and low cost operation. Research findings point out mixed outcomes. The set of cost-saving managerial-oriented initiatives together with the deployment of knowledge codification strategies simultaneously supported the knowledge transfer of codified-oriented courses associated to low levels of tacit knowledge and constrained knowledge transfer of codified-oriented courses associated with slightly higher levels of tacit knowledge. This finding can be credited to a set of both knowledge and non-knowledge related issues. The implications for the management of knowledge in MHEI were explored.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom451
dc.relation.ispartofpageto465
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHigher Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume62
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systems not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390399
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3901
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.titlePackaging and unpackaging knowledge in mass higher education—a knowledge management perspective
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.rights.copyright© 2010 Springer Netherlands. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
gro.date.issued2011
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorGuzman, Gustavo A.


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