Mini Tracks – Calls for Papers

Knowledge and Ageing.

Globalization, Trade and Knowledge Economics

Knowledge Management for Resilient Enterprise

International law as the legal framework for the Knowledge Based Society

Knowledge Management in Public Sector Organisations: Value Driven and Best Practices Scenario

Sustainable Knowledge Management

Knowledge transfer and trust in service business

If you would be interested in preparing and chairing a mini track, please contact the Conference Director, Sue Nugus outlining your suggested topic.

Mini Track: Knowledge and ageing

Track Chair: Christiaan Stam, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

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Christiaan Stam


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As a consequence of the current demographic developments, our working population is ageing and shrinking at the same time. This development threatens the organization’s ability to be knowledge productive (Stam, 2009). First, the large scale retirements of the baby boomers (1946-1965) the next two decades could result in an unprecedented brain drain from the corporate knowledge base. Second, the relative growth of the number of older employees, combined with the many (false) prejudices towards the productive power of this group might result in large scale underutilization of the most knowledgeable employees. Despite the relative certainty of the demographic developments, hardly any attention is being paid to this phenomenon from a KM-perspective. Therefore, the aim of this mini track is to explore this issue from a KM-perspective.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: Globalization, Trade and Knowledge Economics

Track Chair:  Nuno Carlos Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal

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Nuno Carlos Leitão


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The international trade has significantly changed in recent decades. By the growing heterogeneity of services, new elements of international trade appeared. Trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in knowledge intensive business play an important role in knowledge transfer within economies. Participants will find a good opportunity for presenting new research. All papers (theoretical and empirical) are highly encouraged.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: Knowledge Management for Resilient Enterprise

Track Chair: Dr. Elena Irina Neaga, Loughborough University, UK

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Elena Irina Neaga


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The essence of the resilient enterprise is the ability to recover from disruptions, disasters, crisis, hazardous situations and uncertainties by creating effective redundancy, modularity and flexibility within an enterprise or organisation.  Therefore new knowledge management approaches are required to support the development and operation of the resilient enterprise.  These new approaches should be defined through the joint efforts of researchers, and knowledge management practitioners in order to coherently develop realistic knowledge strategies linked to the realities of the contemporary society and global economy.  This mini track aims at providing to researchers and practitioners the latest relevant and effective knowledge management approaches for resilient enterprises and organisations that will contribute to the sustainability in uncertain times. Papers are solicited on theories as well as practices or applications.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: International law as the legal framework for the Knowledge Based Society

Track Chair: Branislav Malagurski, Faculty of Law Osijek, Croatia

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Branislav Malagurski


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Developed and coherent system of legal regulation is a precondition for sustainable and effective development of the knowledge based society. Negotiations and adoption by states of random international treaties through various and often not coordinated international organizations covering global and regional levels of association often rather produce chaos than create a framework for functional system of norms. For coordinated support to development of knowledge based society it is indispensable to set up a functional system of norms, where on global and regional international levels are undertaken concerted efforts focused on this issue. Therefore, this topic is of importance to be addressed, when the support to the development of knowledge based society through knowledge management is discussed.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: Knowledge Management in Public Sector Organisations: Value Driven and Best Practices Scenario

Track Co-Chairs: Dr Kalsom Salleh, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia.

  Eduardo Tomé, Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal

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Kalsom Salleh


Eduardo Tomé


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There are many powerful reasons for the public sector to implement knowledge management (KM) in order to remain relevant in a knowledge based economy.   To this prospect, it definitely needs to be more research in this area which may include the importance of developing a generic KM framework and the role of KM enablers such as technology, leadership, collaboration and communities, knowledge sharing and trust relationship in enabling the public sector to enhance its public service delivery.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: Sustainable Knowledge Management

Track Chair: Elizabeth Real de Oliveira, Universidade Lusíada de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal.

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Elizabeth Real de Oliveira


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Sustainable Knowledge-based development is the objective of all societies in an interdependent era characterised by resource constriction and efflorescence of science and technology. In a knowledge-based society, the bar is raised from the development goal of industrialisation, focusing solely in tangible assets, to an economy based on the capitalisation of knowledge. This track addresses the concept of sustainable knowledge management and its linkages with other fields of management in coping with complex, transient and diversity contexts. It is intended to create a forum for discussion of the latest research findings that suggest the combinative use of different methodologies developed in different disciplines regarding sustainable knowledge management.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

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Mini Track: Knowledge transfer and trust in service business

Track Co-Chair: Kirsimarja Blomqvist, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Dr.Anssi Smedlund, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki, Finland

Dr.Tatiana Andreeva, Graduate School of Management (GSOM), St.Petersburg State University, Russia.

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Kirsimarja Blomqvist


Anssi Smedlund


Tatiana Andreeva


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The present economy has been characterised as a "service economy" - services are today responsible for the main part of employment in the Western countries, and their portion of the economies is increasing globally. In this mini-track our aim is to gather together models, frameworks and empirical studies, either qualitative or quantitative, to challenge traditional thinking and serve better the needs of the management of service firms in the new "service economy". The service business competence development is new and emerging field in service science and needs to be studied.

Knowledge-based interaction is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and risk. For people to be willing to share their knowledge, and to participate in implementation of other people's ideas, trust matters (Miles et al. 2000 & 2009; Clegg et al. 2002; Blomqvist 2002 & 2005). It lowers the transaction costs such as searching, negotiating, contracting and monitoring, but also increases transaction benefits such as access to dispersed knowledge, learning and flexibility (Blomqvist et al.

2002). We propose that trust is critical for knowledge-intensive service business and related knowledge transfer, yet its role and related dynamics are not sufficiently known.

Articles that identify novel mechanisms for knowledge transfer among firms and other stakeholders are especially welcomed. Academics globally and from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to submit their work. With this call for papers, we hope to create an interdisciplinary overview on the subject, and build new definitions and theory of knowledge transfer in service business to support future research.

Research issues as follows are of special interest:

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Publication opportunity

Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration. Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management. (http://www.ejkm.com). The latest issue of the journal is available to read online.

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Updated 20 January 2010