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Journal articles on the topic "Knowledge and power agencies"

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Zito, Anthony R. "Expertise and Power: Agencies Operating in Complex Environments." Politics and Governance 3, no. 1 (March 31, 2015): 73–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v3i1.81.

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This contribution investigates the strategies that environmental agencies develop to enhance their policy autonomy, in order to fulfil their organisational missions for protecting the environment. This article asks whether there are particular strategic moves that an agency can make to augment this policy autonomy in the face of the principals. Critiquing principal agent theory, it investigates the evolution of three environmental agencies (the European Environment Agency, the England and Wales Environment Agency and the United States Environmental Protection Agency), focusing on the case study of climate change. The contribution examines how the agencies influence environmental policy on domestic, regional and global levels, with a special focus on the principals that constrain agency autonomy. A greater focus on different multi-level contexts, which the three agencies face, may create other possible dynamics and opportunities for agency strategies. Agencies can use particular knowledge, network and alliance building to strengthen their policy/political positions.
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Malefyt, Timothy De Waal. "Anthropologist in Advertising Agencies: Mediating Structures of Power and Knowledge Capital by Managing Relationships." Journal of Business Anthropology 6, no. 1 (May 7, 2017): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/jba.v6i1.5318.

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This essay discusses how working from within an advertising agency as an anthropologist yields particular advantages in terms of presenting anthropological insights and gaining access to information that one would not have been privy to, compared to a study of advertising from the outside. Working from within an agency affords access not only to forms of objective data and consumer research documents that are less accessible from the outside, but also to forming critical relationships and subjective associations with clients that produce knowledge practices and situate information in authoritative positions of power from within. I draw on fifteen years of experience as a corporate anthropologist working within and among relationships in advertising which define, produce and sustain various structures of power and knowledge capital that orient insights and information in critical ways.
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Azarian, Mahdieh Sabaghpour, and Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan . "Effectiveness of Knowledge Management in Achieving Success in Malaysian Government Agencies: A Literature Review." Information Management and Business Review 5, no. 7 (July 30, 2013): 324–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v5i7.1058.

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As knowledge is being accepted as an inseparable imperative strategy of organization, organizations look at knowledge as a power, which drives advantages to them. However, many organizations believe it is not about just the existence of knowledge but the organizational growth is being driven from the act of knowledge sharing. As modern economy, takes knowledge as a point to achieve project success, this competitive advantage is being utilized from the greater degree of inter-organizational utilization of information and data coupled with the harnessing of people’s skills and ideas as well as their commitments and motivations. Therefore, it is undeniable that today's knowledge is an essential asset of every single company and it has become more important than land, labor or capital in today’s economy. This paper investigates on the importance of knowledge management in generating of project success by analyzing whether or not government companies and agencies in Malaysia practice Knowledge Management. In this regard, a research has been conducted amongst fifteen Malaysian governmental companies and agencies to find how effective project managers in Malaysian government companies, integrate Knowledge Management criteria and key success elements in order to achieve project success and gain success.
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Peng, Yujie. "The Phenomenon of Difficult Enforcement in the Circuit Trial System in China from the Perspective of Power Operation." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 55, no. 1 (September 27, 2024): None. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/55/20240129.

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The phenomenon of "difficulty in enforcement" is prevalent in the judicial practice of China and poses similar challenges to circuit trials. This paper, based on Su Li's premise of the shifting local power dynamics in rural China, utilizes Foucault's theory of micro-power and Geertz's theory of local knowledge to explore how these misalignments in local power relationships affect the enforcement work in circuit trials in China, and provides suggestions on how to alleviate this issue. In the power relationship of enforcement within circuit trials, the relatively weaker state power struggles to support the compulsory execution of judgments, while the relatively stronger individual power resists the enforcement of judgments. This leads to a reliance on the recognition and cooperation of the judgment debtor, as well as the assistance of local power as a third party. However, the lack of local knowledge among judges makes it difficult for "legally sound but unreasonable" judgments to gain the recognition and cooperation of the parties involved, resulting in challenges to enforcement. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation with local powers and other state agencies, seeking a multi-faceted approach.
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Davis, Diana K. "Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 4 (October 15, 2010): 657–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743810000863.

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To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, marginal environment, in many places a wasteland degraded by overgrazing and deforestation for hundreds if not thousands of years. The local populations, especially nomads and small farmers, are frequently blamed for the alleged environmental ruin. Born in large part of Western imperialism in the region, this environmental imaginary of the MENA has been uncritically adopted by the majority of postindependence ruling elites as well as development agencies.
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Burrell, Darrell Norman, Emad Rahim, Krista Juris, and Zara Sette. "Developing knowledge transfer-oriented ethical cultures in US government agencies regulating the commercial use of nuclear power." International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management 4, no. 2 (2010): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijnkm.2010.032314.

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Fopp, Rodney. "Increasing the Potential for Gaze, Surveillance and Normalisation: the transformation of an Australian policy for people who are homeless." Surveillance & Society 1, no. 1 (September 1, 2002): 48–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v1i1.3393.

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Michel Foucault analysed the origins and social function served by institutions such as the prison and the clinic, explored the links between knowledge and power, and the body as a location or site of such social power. In this article, Foucault's analysis is applied to an Australian program for people who are homeless. After outlining a theoretical framework which emphases Foucault's theme of increasing surveillance being used for the purposes of greater regulation and control, this article analyses the changes that have occurred in the program. It is argued that initially the program was intended to assist non-government agencies to provide a range of services, including short-term crisis accommodation services, after which clients would move to independent housing. However, due to the lack of affordable and appropriate houses for clients to enter after their stay in agencies, clients have been forced to stay in funded agencies for longer than is otherwise necessary. Among other things, this program has adapted by providing more short-to-medium term accommodation and case management for clients which, in turn, has led to an extension of the time clients remain in agencies and greater intensity of service provision. It is argued that this has resulted in increased potential for surveillance, control and regulation.
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Akonwi Nebasifu, Ayonghe, and Ngoindong Majory Atong. "Rethinking Institutional Knowledge for Community Participation in Co-Management." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 18, 2019): 5788. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205788.

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Critics of participation often examine the undesirable consequences of state-led systems without much analysis of institutional knowledge at the local level. In this paper, we investigate whether smaller institutions could offer useful knowledge for meeting the development needs of local people. Using participation theory and related literature on development and power, we investigate a co-management system in communities around Mount Cameroon National Park (MCNP), in sub-Saharan West Africa. Our study adopts a multimethod approach to survey officials in 16 agencies and locals in 17 village groups. The findings indicate factors that hinder the effectiveness of local participation and avenues by which institutional knowledge can be customized to meet local development priorities. This system of participation, we conclude, could work better through open dialogue that is explicitly accountable and transparent.
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Evans, Terry, and Victor Jakupec. "From Modernisation, Dependency and Soft Power Toward a Commonwealth of Learning." Journal of Learning for Development 8, no. 3 (November 17, 2021): 473–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v8i3.568.

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This article reflects on some influential theories, concepts and institutions that have shaped the nature and substance of international development since the mid-20th century. In particular, theories of modernisation and dependency are deployed to reflect on the ways in which the International Financial Institutions, such as, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have adopted a ‘Washington Consensus’ concerning the social and economic development of ‘developing’ nations. ‘Soft power’ national agencies, such as, the British Council and USAID are brought into consideration, especially, for their interests and influences over matters of learning for development. The multi-national Commonwealth of Learning’s particular contribution to learning for development is discussed with suggestions made for developing member nations’ capacities to produce new local knowledge and to bring their existing local knowledge to the fore to share as part of a (Lockean) ‘commonwealth of learning’.
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Tretyakov, Nikolay P., Pavel E. Golosov, and Saif A. Mouhammad. "Non-Traditional Correlation Analysis: Explanatory Power and Opportunities for Knowledge Discovery in Democracy Studies." Modern Applied Science 10, no. 7 (April 28, 2016): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v10n7p99.

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The possibility of successful applications of the modified correlation coefficient is demonstrated. The latter was proposed by Lukashin nearly twenty five years ago and has been unused since then. A multivariate generalization of this coefficient is proposed. The modified correlation coefficients provide an efficient tool to develop a new multivariate classification method, i.e. a technique for grouping of objects that occurs together with their ranking. As an example of application of the new method, the data of Freedom House is used. NCA (Non-traditional Correlation Analysis), along with similar unconventional methods as FCA (Formal Concept Analysis) and QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) allow to gain additional knowledge from existing databases and numerous ratings which are produced by different agencies. The latters often lack time and opportunities to deeply analyze them, even to go beyond a simple “averaging”. NCA may give additional opportunities for social researchers to understand social phenomena in its complexity, for in-depth analysis and interpretation of structure of data, to build “hierarchical typologies”, and broadly, for data mining and additional knowledge discovery.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Knowledge and power agencies"

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Johnson, Lisa. "Power, Knowledge, Animals." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/479.

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Although Foucault did not address the question of the animal, he asserted the assessment of whether a new politics of truth can be constituted as "the essential political problem" (1980, p. 134). Though the "essential political problem" may be considered as it relates to the politics of truth about animals, a Foucaultian perspective does not allow a prediction in response, other than the recognition that change may occur. What is understood to be "true" about animals may change if the relationships between events that exist at a given time ("conditions") require the emergence of a different way of knowing. This Foucaultian critique of thought about animals examines "truth" about animals as an historical contingency, variable according to the conditions that have allowed its production. This project contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. The politics of truth about animals is understood to be the push and pull of knowledge generated and perpetuated about them, together with concurrent power apparatuses in support of that knowledge as well as the ever present resistance to that power. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power -that is, that knowledge is a carrier of power, power is a perpetuator of knowledge, and all power relations have resistances - this work employs Foucault's archaeological method to uncover dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and to describe power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things. This project describes the changeable nature of "truth" about animals and, necessarily, the politics of it, since the politics of truth is understood to be propelled by whichever knowledge and associated power are then dominant. Statements in "error" are also examined as resistance to power-knowledge about animals. The project describes subjugated discourses about animals that have been understood in various times and places to have truth-telling powers or, at least, to have been understood as "error," which provided points of resistance to the dominant discourse. It describes the partial derivation of discourse about animals by examining dominant discourses (e.g., the discourse of law and the discourse of lines) and subjugated discourses (e.g., animals are not personal property, karmic discourse, transmigration of souls discourse, rational animal discourse). Additionally, it describes like disperse statements among different referents (i.e., slave, animal, woman) that comprise various discursive formations that have been understood at various times to have truth-telling power about different referents. Subjugated discourse sometimes emerges as new "truth," though no such prediction can be made. To illustrate the point, the project describes the emergence of the new academic field related to the question of the animal, which resurrects or draws from some subjugated discourse (e.g., animals are not personal property).
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Lanteigne, Marc. "Doorways and mirrors Chinese power and international institutions /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/57360569.html.

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Lima, A. F. O. "Intellectuals, knowledge and power." Thesis, Swansea University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637920.

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Through an analysis of three different periods in Brazilian history and a study of discourse and knowledge production in the field of education, the thesis aims to disclose the relationship between produced knowledge and the implementation of effective change in the Brazilian education system. Firstly, using the work of Gramsci, Foucault and Bauman, the thesis examines the concept of intellectuals in order to grasp the functions and roles played by intellectuals in different historical and social contexts. In addition, discourse analysis is used as a reference to understand the net of knowledge-power production and its relation with three loci or systems: academia, civil society and the state. These two elements constitute the theoretical support for undertaking the historical analysis in the thesis. Secondly, with specific reference to education, the thesis proceeds to a historical study of intellectuals in Brazil, showing how the colonial and neo-colonial structures based on the dominance of the European and US metropolis have left a deep mark on national consciousness. It argues that intellectuals were not only formed in Europe and the United States of America, but also that their knowledge production is undertaken within a paradigm constituted by exogenous models. Consequently, intellectuals of education, in particular, are not aware of the requirement for a suitable re-interpretation of theories in order to meet Brazilian social and educational needs. Thirdly, the thesis shows how educators are grounded in this circle of reproduction of exogenous models and how their subordination to them has increased, without ever managing to take into account Brazilian cultural reality. One example used, the subordination to models from the USA, shows how this has been increasing quickly since the 1960s, leading to almost the totality of national investment in post graduate studies being made in US universities. Finally, the thesis investigates three different historical periods in Brazil during the 20th century to disclose the visible and the invisible discourse of Brazilian educational thought and how the structures and mechanisms of power are organized in Brazilian society. These structures of power and knowledge have led to a dramatic situation in the Brazilian educational system which can, still, be ranked among the poorer countries of the world, in spite of having a relatively advanced economy. The thesis argues that the ideas produced by the educational intellectual establishment do not get into practice largely because they do not achieve answers to Brazilian needs or have a specifically Brazilian cultural identification.
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Sartor, Enrico <1971&gt. "Soft power and internationalisation: the role of higher education promotion agencies." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17366.

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In che misura l'istruzione rappresenta una componente rilevante dell'arsenale di soft power di un Paese? In che modo l'istruzione internazionale si collega alla politica internazionale, e quanto sono importanti le agenzie controllate dallo Stato nella promozione internazionale dei progetti culturali di un paese? Questo lavoro mira a mettere in evidenza i solidi, anche se raramente percepiti come importanti, legami tra soft power e istruzione universitaria internazionale, non da ultimo come fonte di ricchezza per i Paesi che promuovono tali pratiche. In questo senso, sottolineare il ruolo sempre più rilevante delle agenzie di promozione finanziate dallo Stato può rappresentare una comprensione approfondita di come gli Stati percepiscono la questione.
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Mannie, Avain. "Critical factors for enabling knowledge sharing between government agencies within South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019699.

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Globally, organisations have recognised the strategic importance of knowledge management (KM) and are increasingly focusing their efforts on practices to foster the creation, sharing and integration of knowledge. Whilst most research in Knowledge Management (KM) has focused on the private sector, there is a breadth of potential applications of KM theory and practice for government agencies to adopt in search of resolving pertinent problems. The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that influence the effectiveness of knowledge management towards collaborative problem solving in government. What is missing is research-based evidence of the factors that influence the main factors for knowledge sharing across government agencies. Given this gap, the researcher addresses the research question: In government agencies mandated to resolve issues of crime, what are the key factors required which support and influence the collaborative sharing culture? Upon analysing the data, the researcher found the following key factors as being determinants on knowledge management: organisational culture, learning organisation, collaboration, subject matter experts and trust. The two factors – organisational culture and learning organisation were identified as the most significant factors which lay as the root or core for the ‘knowledge tree’. Once these roots are in place, the other factors will gain their significance on knowledge management. These findings serve to extend the findings of the existing literature within the government sector. This study is important because the findings provide government agencies with critically important information to guide their actions towards ensuring a knowledge sharing culture is embedded in government. Whilst the empirical findings do not focus on databases or information technology specifically, it is important to acknowledge the use of both technology and people. The main concern is with managing an organisation’s knowledge assets: creating, storing, protecting, disseminating and using mission-critical knowledge. When people need knowledge, is it the right knowledge and is it timely and easy to locate and access? Is this precious commodity updated as learning occurs and better ways of doing things are discovered? The awareness of the value of knowledge to a business, coupled with its leadership, acts as an integrator that improves cross- functional communication and cooperation. Shared knowledge not only makes for a more effective, efficient and agile organisation, but creates a common perspective and culture that produces a natural consistency of successful decisions and actions. The collaborative knowledge tree model proposed in this study uses the analogy of a tree when viewing South African government agencies as the branches of a collective tree (government). This ‘tree’ requires leaders and policy making to ‘dig deep’ into understanding the roots of the tree in order to ensure that the appropriate ‘seeds’ are planted such that the tree grows and is able to provide the necessary fruit required. Ultimately, as suggested by former President Thabo Mbeki (2012) in his address, the role of knowledge would thus be seen as a collaborative means towards the betterment of society.
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AUCAR, BRUNA SANTANA. "ADVERTISING IN BRAZIL: ADVERTISING AGENCIES, POWER RELATIONS AND WORK METHODS (1914 - 2014)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=27769@1.

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Esta tese realiza um estudo da história e do desenvolvimento das agências de propaganda do Brasil, a fim de compreender os principais movimentos do campo da publicidade no país ao longo de cem anos. Parte-se da premissa de que a agência é a organização responsável por traçar as condições de existência do setor da publicidade e do aparecimento social do anúncio, como resultado e expressão de tipos de interação social e ação coletiva. O marco cronológico é fixado a partir da fundação da Eclética, em 1914, a primeira empresa que elabora uma disposição profissionalizante e coopera para a formação de um segmento profissional, até então inexistente. A pesquisa procura mapear o curso das agências, suas conexões com as transformações histórico-culturais, realçando o desenvolvimento empresarial para discutir o peso do discurso publicitário na constituição dos códigos culturais. O foco recai no exame dos agentes sociais e suas ações, como partes determinantes da produção do conhecimento e da elaboração das identidades culturais em um determinado sistema social. Através da pesquisa bibliográfica e aproximação da rotina produtiva da publicidade, é possível perceber a importância da atuação conjunta de identidades para a viabilidade do trabalho. Neste sentido, a teoria da ação coletiva de Howard Becker ancora a reflexão sobre as identidades culturais dos sujeitos que produzem os anúncios dentro de uma agência de propaganda e suas formas de operação, elaboradas, historicamente, para a produção deste dispositivo de comunicação. O quadro teórico adotado também enfatiza a perspectiva cultural da publicidade e trabalhos que destacam a preponderância do simbólico na construção dos seus significados públicos. Além da conjuntura interna das empresas de propaganda, o estudo também pondera, de forma mais ampla, a publicidade como uma narrativa central na sociedade moderno-contemporânea, uma vez que ela produz e faz circular temas que impactam subjetividades e oferecem componentes para o estabelecimento de signos e práticas que nos definem como uma sociedade de consumo.
This dissertation provides an interpretative analysis on advertising agencies in Brazil in order to broadly examine the main movements in the field of advertising during the past one hundred years. We have relied on the assumption that the agency is the ownership that establishes conditions for the advertising sector s recognition as well as the social emergence of the ad, as an outcome and expression of social interaction and collective action types. The chronological framework is set as of the establishment of Eclética, in 1914, the first organization that devises a professional approach and sets the capacity building of a yet unknown professional segment. The survey pursues a constant on-going mapping of the agencies, the paths, and linkages with historical-cultural transformations, enhancing the entrepreneurial development in order to discuss the burden of the advertising speech vis-a-vis the cultural code heritage. The core focus is on the consideration of the social players and their actions as inherent part of the production of knowledge and issuance of cultural identities in a specific social system. By means of a bibliographic intersection with the productive routine of advertising, have endeavored to reach the final result of a joint performance of identities which crossing is of the utmost importance for its feasibility. Furthermore, Howard Becker s collective action theory anchors a profound reflection of the cultural identities of the subjects that convey the ads in an advertising agency, inasmuch as its ways of performance, historically produced for this communication device. The theoretical framework that has been considered, highlights as well, the cultural perspective of advertising and papers that enhance the prominence of symbolism when establishing cultural meanings. Besides the internal environment of the advertising organization, this survey contemplates, in a broader sense, advertising as a central narrative of modern contemporary culture inasmuch as it produces and circles issues that impact subjectivities and convey components to establish signs and practices that define us as a Consumption Society.
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Wong, Ricky Siu Kuen. "Knowledge and power asymmetries in dyadic negotiations : whose knowledge matters?" Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2047/.

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Previous research has revealed that negotiators with asymmetric best alternatives to the negotiated agreement (BATNAs) reach more efficient agreements than those with equal BATNAs. Conflicting hypotheses have been proposed to explain the relationship between BATNA-asymmetry and efficiency, and research exploring various possibilities has been relatively inconclusive. This thesis sets out to contribute to this domain, arguing that it is important to consider parties' knowledge states of BATNA-asymmetries. In addition, relationships among knowledge, aspiration and distributive outcomes are explored. A simulated job contract negotiation between an employer and employee was used. The data used in the investigation is the product of three experiments in which 112, 114, and 96 dyads participated respectively. Study 1 examines whether knowledge given to different negotiators affects agreement efficiency, aspiration levels and the nature of distributive outcomes. Study 2 investigates how this knowledge affects efficiency by exploring the relationship between knowledge and communications between parties. Finally, Study 3 focuses on why knowledge affects efficiency, examining its impact on negotiators' motivation, approach and mind-set. With the 5% significance level adopted, the key findings are that (a) aspiration levels of strong (weak) negotiators increase (decrease) with levels of knowledge; (b) knowledge increases the piece of resource pie that strong negotiators receive; (c) strong negotiators' knowledge of BATNA-asymmetries increases focus on dominance and judgement errors about opponents' interests, hindering information-exchange and the search for efficient outcomes; (d) weak negotiators' knowledge increases motivation and fosters communications, leading to more efficient agreements; and (e) the detrimental impact of strong negotiators' knowledge on efficiency is more powerful than the benefit of weak negotiators' knowledge. The findings suggest that knowledge of BAT'NA-asymmetries shapes negotiators' behaviour, and ultimately the structure and quality of outcomes. More importantly, the impact of knowledge on efficiency differs, relying on which party (strong and/or weak) has access to it.
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Bjerhem, Elin. "Knowledge is Power -About Swedish Politicians' Knowledge Concerning Migration Policy." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21123.

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Abstract:This thesis deals with Swedish politicians and their knowledge concerning migration policy. It investigates what knowledge the politicians have and from where they collect their knowledge on the mentioned topic. The study also investigates the politicians’ role as mediators of knowledge and the possible responsibilities connected to such a role.The main source for data has been interviews with six Swedish politicians, all members of parties, represented in the Swedish Parliament. To understand and be able to explain the results found, Sociology of Knowledge has been used as theoretical framework.The result of the thesis is that politicians in general, possess very little knowledge concerning migration policy. But, the current presence of the Swedish right wing party, Sverigedemokraterna, has changed the social code of the institutions that the politicians are members of and therefore many politicians have realized that they are in need of more knowledge, on the discussed topic. It was also found that the politicians have an important role as mediators of knowledge to the members of society. This role is connected to a responsibility of being correct and truthful in the statements made.
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Vik, Jostein. "Knowledge, Mobility and Configurations of Power : an Asset Specificity Perspective on Power in the Knowledge Society." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-988.

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This dissertation studies three interrelated concepts—power, knowledge, and mobility—in order to understand how knowledge mobility (specificity) affects power in the knowledge economy. To do this, the thesis is divided into two parts. The first part develops a theoretical approach, while the second employs this theoretical approach to different empirical fields. In the first, theoretical, part, the dissertation begins by discussing the different ways that the sundry literatures on power, asset specificity and knowledge types have developed. These literature reviews are used to develop a set of theoretically-deduced expectations in Chapter 5. These chapters contribute to broadening our understanding of the core concepts, especially asset and factor specificity, by explicitly linking them to the notion of knowledge mobility and to configurations of power.

The second part of the dissertation interrogates the expectations developed in Chapter 5 across three different venues: a case study of a regime change in a knowledge-intensive consultancy firm; cross-national multivariate statistical assessments on the relationship between specificity, knowledge, and configurations of power; and an historical case study of how the co-working of a set of international institutions—the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Organization for Standardization, and the World Trade Organization—influences knowledge specificity and mobility. These empirical studies elaborate how knowledge mobility and power are interrelated. The chapters are suggesting that the degree of knowledge mobility may be seen as an element in otherwise well-known, empirical regularities. These sorts of similarities are revealed at all three (firm, national and international) levels.

The dissertation employs a broad methodological approach that swaps between analytical levels, alternative operationalizations, methods and causal interpretations. The resulting "montage effect" combines case studies, multivariate regressions, and institutional analyses to create a picture that may be seen as rich representation of a reality. This picture reveals that the specificity and mobility of assets matters for shaping and reshaping configurations of power.

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Calder, Scott C. "Local knowledge matters : knowledge, technology, and power in Newfoundland cod farming /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25827.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Knowledge and power agencies"

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Haas, Ernst B. When knowledge is power: Three models of change in international organizations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

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Johnson, Lisa. Power, Knowledge, Animals. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137284174.

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Burns, William E. Knowledge and Power. Second edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315203294.

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Mazer, Anne. Knowledge is power. New York: Scholastic, 2004.

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Porter, George. Knowledge itself is power. [Great Britain]: [s.n.], 1988.

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Apaydin, Veysel, ed. Shared Knowledge, Shared Power. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68652-3.

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Forsgren, Mats, Ulf Holm, and Jan Johanson, eds. Knowledge, Networks and Power. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137508829.

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Starr, Brian Daniel. Knighted knowledge is power. [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris Corp., 2010.

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Kanti Das, Bidhan, Gorky Chakraborty, and Abhijit Guha. Knowledge, Power and Ignorance. London: Routledge India, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003485704.

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F, Paechter Carrie, and Open University, eds. Knowledge, power, and learning. London: P. Chapman in association with Open University, 2001.

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Vianna, Marcelo. "Information technology is power." In Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production, 121–39. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003147329-7.

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Suárez Estrada, Marcela. "Assembling Power, Agencies, and Governance in Nanotechnology Networks." In Nanotechnology, Governance, and Knowledge Networks in the Global South, 11–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69514-3_2.

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Siebert, Michael, and Paul Windrum. "The Changing Fortunes of the Architectural Profession in Postwar Britain: Complexity, Technological Change, and the (Re)construction of Knowledge." In Knowledge and Space, 115–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24910-5_6.

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AbstractProfessions are one means of organizing the delivery of goods and services. In this paper, the authors consider how the power and control of professional groups can change within specific fields of work due to a combination of endogenous and exogenous factors. Their case study is the changing role of UK architects within the private residential sector over the post-war period. The architect was once the primary actor who brought together, organized, and integrated the workflow of a myriad of contractors, legal agencies, and planning authorities, but this is no longer the case. To understand how this occurred, and whether the architectural profession could regain a key position in the UK housing industry, the authors conduct a broad historical analysis of the factors at play within the UK architectural profession and the industry as a whole that have resulted in this shift in knowledge, roles and power.
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Hauptman, Katherine. "Curatorial Challenges: Discussion Forums and Fragmented Narratives." In Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online, 15–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80646-0_2.

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AbstractThis chapter explores discussions surrounding research on the Swedish History Museum’s collection of Viking Age objects on Internet forums, blogs and digital news media during the period 2004–2020. It argues that there has been a clear escalation of questioning, confrontational and antagonistic reactions directed at research that brings into question issues of nationhood and stereotypes of gender roles and power. The discussions evolve around disagreements that focus on details rather than historical synthesis and quickly escalate into hostility, personal attacks and distrust in academic expertise. The debates cast light on the pedagogical challenges the museum face to synthesise and contextualise research to nuance conversations and fulfil its governmentally assigned task to promote knowledge and interest in history.
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Khan, M. Shah Alam, Rezaur Rahman, Nusrat Jahan Tarin, Sheikh Nazmul Huda, and A. T. M. Zakir Hossain. "Views from the Sluice Gate: Water Insecurity, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh." In Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia, 123–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79035-6_7.

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AbstractThis chapter explores conflict and cooperation around water infrastructure in relation to contestations over water and land in peri-urban Khulna, Bangladesh. It analyses how these contestations, together with the effects of climate change and urbanization, contribute to water insecurity. These dynamics are explored by viewing the peri-urban space as a hydro-social system where physical infrastructure (a sluice gate), hydrological processes and various actors interact. Through participatory appraisal, stakeholder analysis and social power mapping, we analyse the emergence, manifestations and implications of conflicts, and how power relations influence the conflict dynamics. The chapter further presents the process and outcome of participatory actions for capacity-building of communities to facilitate their empowerment by elevating their knowledge level and negotiating capabilities toward securing water and resolving conflicts. We argue that conflicts and water insecurities of peri-urban communities largely emerge from the absence of their participation in the planning and management of water infrastructure, and their limited capacity to resist changes in the control of water and agricultural land. The chapter concludes that peri-urban communities lack the power and agency to mitigate the impacts of urbanization and climate change, while neither urban nor rural planning processes formally recognize the peri-urban and its specific water security problems and needs. This policy gap leads to increasingly complex conflicts and water insecurities. Success and sustainability of alternative livelihood choices and collective action by marginalized communities depend much on continued advocacy, cooperation among and between communities and government agencies, commitment of a trusted neutral actor, and mutual understanding and respect for each other’s positions.
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Weatherson, Brian. "10. Power." In Knowledge, 247–52. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0425.10.

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This chapter ends the book with a short note connecting interest-relativity to the familiar saying Knowledge is Power. I argue that this saying only makes sense on an interest-relative view of knowledge. If interest-relative theories were flawed for one reason or another, then we’d have to simply concede that the saying is false. But we shouldn’t concede that; the saying is true, and interest-relative epistemology explains why it is true.
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Yates, Scott. "Power-Knowledge." In Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, 1480–85. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_438.

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Penrod, Joshua. "Power and Knowledge Without Knowledge or Power." In Ethics and Biopower in Neuromarketing, 81–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18549-6_4.

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Swai, Elinami Veraeli. "Knowledge Is Power and Power Is Knowledge." In Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa, 151–80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230106345_7.

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Bergien, Rüdiger. "Knowledge transfer and technopolitics." In Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production, 101–20. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003147329-6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Knowledge and power agencies"

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Ruoslahti, Harri, and Ilkka Tikanmäki. "Connecting Critical Infrastructure Operators and Law Enforcement Agencies to Share Cyber Incident Information with Early Warning Systems." In 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Systems, 347–55. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0013067100003838.

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Keys, Erin, and Michael E. Webber. "An Assessment and Comparison of Installed Solar and Wind Capacity in Texas." In ASME 2008 2nd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer, Fluids Engineering, and 3rd Energy Nanotechnology Conferences. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2008-54148.

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This paper presents the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the installed solar capacity in Texas. While the power generated from grid-tied solar photovoltaic installations can be tracked, an inventory including the capacity of these and other types of solar installations has never been performed. In contrast, installed wind capacity in Texas is closely tracked and widely publicized. Because of this discrepancy, decision-makers have lacked critical information to gauge the appropriateness of solar versus wind power for future installations, complicating their ability to prioritize which renewable power sources to incentivize. The work presented in this paper fills this knowledge gap by providing the methodology and results from a bottoms-up survey of major solar installers, large solar customers, and relevant government agencies (for example government agencies that are responsible for issuing rebates, or those that are major solar customers themselves). Over thirty entities were systematically contacted to obtain proprietary data that were then aggregated to determine the total installed solar capacity in Texas. Both power generation and heating applications are considered, including the following: photovoltaic (on- and off-grid), concentrating solar power (CSP), solar pond, and solar water heating (SWH). Other heating forms such as room and pool heating are not considered. An aggregate figure is presented and then benchmarked against installed wind capacity. Findings reveal that after 30 years and roughly $56 million in installation costs (at approximately $8300/kW), Texas possesses about 6.7 megawatts (MW) of installed solar electric capacity. Comparatively, in over 6 years and an estimated $6.9 billion in installation costs (at approximately $1600/kW), installed wind capacity in Texas approaches 5000 MW, which is more than any other state in the United States. Notably, at least another 8000 MW of new wind projects are in various stages of development, whereas few significant solar projects have been announced. This solar assessment exposes a stark difference in pace, cost and total size of installation for these two power sources, which is the likely experience for many other states. While these differences do not negate solar as a future power option, they raise further questions about the technical, social, and economic barriers each renewable technology faces, as well as the feasibility and design of incentives to further market penetration. Understanding this mixed history for these two power sources offers instructive guidance and useful insights to policymakers nationwide.
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Pinto, D., and P. Peres. "Knowledge management in online travel agencies." In 2023 18th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/cisti58278.2023.10211919.

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Paviet, Patricia. "Generation IV International Forum Education and Training Webinars: Education Tools for the Next Generation Workforce." In 2018 26th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone26-81027.

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The Gen IV International Forum (GIF) Education and Training Task Force was created to respond to the challenge of not only forming, training and/or retaining qualified Gen IV workforce but also educating and informing a more general public, policy makers on topics related to Gen IV reactor systems and cross-cutting subjects. The task force serves as a platform to enhance open education and training as well as communication and networking in support of GIF, and its objectives are to maintain the know-how in this field, to increase the knowledge of new advanced concepts, and to avoid the loss of the knowledge and competences that could seriously and adversely affect the future of nuclear energy. While many countries are either ramping up or developing nuclear power production as an important step towards economic development and environmental protection, a decrease or uncertainty of the fiscal year budgets have left organizations and agencies looking for new avenues for training and educating a qualified workforce. This has led to an increase in those looking for readily available education and training resources. Using modern internet technologies, the GIF Education and Training Task Force has launched a webinar series on Gen IV systems in September 2016, which is accessible to a broad audience and is educating and strengthening the knowledge of participants in applications to advanced reactors. This achievement is the direct result of partnering with university professors and subject matter experts who conduct live webinars on a monthly basis. The live webinars are recorded and archived as an online educational resource to the public from the GIF website (www.gen-4.org). In addition, the webinars offer unprecedented opportunities for interdisciplinary crosslinking and collaboration in education and research. The GIF webinars, with their expansion of topics, targets a large spectrum of those that do not know but are desiring to learn about the many aspects of advanced reactor systems. The details and examples of the GIF webinar modules will be presented in our paper.
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Iabbassen, Nabila, Osama Al Shekaili, and Muna Salman Al Marzouqi. "Companies’ Group Drilling Operations Centralized Lessons Learned Process and Platform." In ADIPEC. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/211766-ms.

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Abstract In the year 2030, global energy demand will be almost 35% higher than it was in 2010, led by a power-hungry world population of almost 8 billion. This looming energy crisis must be tackled by forming stronger inter- and intra-company collaborations, to maximize their exploration and production. Knowledge sharing is essential in every sector of all societies; employed as the primary tool for achieving progress. It is the necessary key to making these stronger partnerships, providing networking communities in which to share information for the good of the organization. There are many ways in which an organization can use knowledge sharing as an effective tool for gaining success, such as: websites and forums; peer-reviewed journals; conferences; and educational programs. Benefits of knowledge sharing include but not limited to: enhanced learning opportunities and intellectual stimulation for employees; increased company efficiency; advances in R&D and in particular with forums, the creation of a searchable archive of previously answered questions for future use. Should all organizations decide to adopt these cost-effective techniques, they would not only increase their capital but also help to solve the global energy crisis with more effective R&D in exploration and production. Organizations that enable their employees to access and interact with their company's knowledge base are more likely to succeed than those whose individuals have limited sharing opportunities. Knowledge can be shared on three different levels: Intra-organizational: This refers to small-scale inside a company. Large organizations operating worldwide require an internal communication and flow of information among the different departments. There is no doubt that those organizations that are closer to enabling their staff to work on the basis of what the organization knows instead of one of the basis of what the individual knows have considerably higher earning power.Inter-organizational: This applies to joint ventures and partnerships between different private companies, or together with government agencies or national companies. This category further includes industry-university partnerships for specific projects. Due to competitiveness the companies involved do not like to be fully open with their ideas, so we rarely see a win-win situation.Global: Knowledge is shared on a global scale, using methods such as publications, forums, conferences, recent webinars and also distance learning. It is the basis of scientific diffusion of knowledge. All educational programs of petroleum engineering related societies that we know should be mentioned as an example for global knowledge sharing. The centralized lessons learned platform in this paper falls under the Intra-organizational category as it represents a tool to collect all group companies’ lessons learned and share the governance documents among them. The knowledge sharing platform allows knowledge seekers to easily find and re-use information rather than recreate it. Before this platform has been introduced, each product line or functional group in the operating company organizes its information from its internal viewpoint rather than from a broader viewpoint. And only selected few topics are shared among the group in a bi-annual knowledge sharing forum. The use of a broader viewpoint would, however, encourage content sharing beyond the product line or group. To be successful the digital world must eventually merge these independent hierarchies toward a common centralized platform among the group companies. This paper details the development of a group company-wide Knowledge management tool: the lessons learned platform.
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Huq, Ragibul, and Sohel Anwar. "Soot Load Sensing in a Diesel Particulate Filter via Electrical Capacitance Tomography." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-62819.

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Diesel engines are widely used in heavy duty trucks and off road vehicles due to their fuel efficiency and high power outputs. Environmental regulatory agencies have pushed ever stringent regulations on all internal combustion engines, including Diesel engines on gaseous as well as particulates (soot) emissions. In order to meet today’s and tomorrow’s stringent emission requirements, modern diesel engines are equipped with diesel particulate filters (DPF’s), as well as on-board technologies to evaluate the status of DPF. In course of time, particulate matter (soot) will be deposited inside the DPFs which tend to clog the filter and hence generate a back pressure in the exhaust system, negatively impacting the fuel efficiency. To remove the soot build-up, regeneration (active or passive) of the DPF must be done as an engine exhaust after treatment process at pre-determined time intervals. Since the regeneration process consume fuel, a robust and efficient operation based on accurate knowledge of the particulate matter deposit (or soot load) becomes essential in order to keep the fuel consumption at a minimum. In this paper, we propose a sensing method for a DPF that can accurately measure in-situ soot load using Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT). Simulation results show that the proposed method offers an effective way to accurately estimate the soot load in DPF. The proposed method is expected to have a profound impact in improving overall PM filtering efficiency (and thereby fuel efficiency), and durability of a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) through appropriate closed loop regeneration operation.
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Pavlović, Goran, and Nevena Vrcelj. "HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALITY, RESTAURANTS AND TRAVEL AGENCIES." In 4th International Scientific Conference: Knowledge based sustainable economic development. Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia et all, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31410/eraz.2018.592.

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Hedar, Abrar, Dana Indra Sensuse, and Puspa Sandhyaduhita. "Knowledge management readiness of research agencies: A case of BATAN Indonesia." In 2016 International Conference on Informatics and Computing (ICIC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iac.2016.7905693.

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Rosyadi, Zudan, Murni Fidiyanti, Husni Abdillah, and Abd Halim. "Tracking and Mapping the Position of Knowledge Workers' Agencies in New Media." In International Conference on Emerging Media, and Social Science. EAI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.7-12-2018.2281743.

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Gemeda, Takele, Sandy Estrada, Wondwosen Demisse, Lei Wang, and Jiajun Xu. "Design and Development of an Additively Manufactured Geothermal Heat Exchanger for Improved Efficiency and Easy Installation." In ASME 2020 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2020-23288.

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Abstract Effective system energy management and cooling is critical for a range of increasingly complex systems and missions. Various industries and agencies seek technologies to use energy more efficiently in various applications, and thereby increase system energy efficiencies in future advanced energy systems. There has been an increasing interest in exploiting the use of additive manufacturing in developing nontraditional energy conversion schemes. Meanwhile, wind power and solar power systems have become part of common knowledge and conversation over the past few years. While these provide excellent sustainable options of energy production, geothermal energy systems are just as efficient and economical. Solar and wind energy collectors are also site specific. On the other hand, the geothermal systems do not take up buildable ground level space nor are they location or climate specific. The earth has a generally constant temperature throughout the year which can be used in geothermal systems to benefit all sites. If all geothermal resources were combined, enough energy would be produced to provide all of the electricity needs in the United States. However, conventional geothermal system requires the relatively complex installation process and can potentially be cost prohibitive to many potential users. In this study, an additively manufactured heat exchanger was designed and developed to resolve that issue. The heat exchanger can be integrated with a conventional geothermal heating and cooling system for improved efficiency and easy installation. A customized geothermal heating and cooling loop was designed and developed for testing the efficiency of the heat exchanger. Within this proposed system, this additive manufactured heat exchanger is designed and fabricated to improve it efficiency and easy installation with minimal tools needed. This new design eliminates the need of excavation of the soil and installation of long tubes as conventionally required for geothermal system. This new heat exchanger was designed using CREO software and fabricated using an EOS M280 direct metal laser sintering system at University of the District of Columbia. It is then integrated with a heat pump to exchange heat between a constant temperature of water bath circulator and a water heat sink. A prototype system was designed and constructed, which allowed the direct assessment of its performance. The performance of the heat exchanger is studied using COMSOL software to assess its heat transfer performance. The results have shown a significant improvement in its efficiency. It has shown the promising application of metal additive manufacturing technique in improving the efficiency of existing energy harvesting applications.
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Mracek Dietrich, Anna, and Ravi Rajamani. Unsettled Issues Regarding the Certification of Electric Aircraft. SAE International, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/epr2021007.

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The aerospace industry is beginning to grapple with the reality of certifying electric aircraft (EA), signaling the maturing of the field. Many players are ramping up their activities to respond to imminent technical, safety, and regulatory requirements. While there are gaps in EA knowledge as well as the processes for certifying them, some leading standards development organizations (SDOs) such as SAE International, ASTM International, and RTCA—ably supported by representatives from regulatory agencies—are stepping in to address many of these issues. Of special importance are the new rule changes in the normal category (14 CFR Part 23, Amendment 64) that shift from a prescriptive philosophy to “performance-based rules.” Regarding system knowledge, there has been a trend in the use electrical energy to power systems that have long employed mechanical hydraulics. In the new EA paradigm, these components will be employed at criticality levels not previously witnessed in conventional aircraft, calling for a specific set of certification demands. Unsettled Issues Regarding the Certification of Electric Aircraft tackles the certification challenges faced by EA manufacturers in both the small (normal) and large (transport) categories, addressing technical, business, and process issues.
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Johnson, Lisa. Power, Knowledge, Animals. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.479.

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Arisi, Diego, Alix Cortés, and Delic Diego. Open configuration options Knowledge for Results and the Efficiency of Public Agencies in Colombia. Inter-American Development Bank, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004062.

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This paper documents the effects of an intervention on knowledge sharing, in which information embedded in efficient private organizations is used to improve bureaucratic procedures of public agencies. In particular, it analyzes the impact of the Knowledge for Results (K4R) program on the efficiency of public agencies in Colombia. The findings of the study indicate that K4R is associated with a statistically significant improvement in operational efficiency. The paper presents two examples of K4R. In the first example, K4R reduced the time that local ombudsman offices need to deal with incoming petitions from citizens. In the second example, K4R reduced the time that oncology patients spend in an emergency clinic until they are discharged from the hospital. These time reductions are quantitatively relevant and imply efficiency gains of between 25 and 40 percent relative to pre-program levels.
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Georgalakis, James, and Pauline Rose. The Power of the Collective and Global Knowledge Brokering. Institute of Development Studies, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii360.

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Jessoe, Katrina, and David Rapson. Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18344.

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Ravindran, TK Sundari, George A Atiim, Michelle Remme, and Johanna Riha. A Compendium of the History of Gender Mainstreaming in Five United Nations Agencies. United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, February 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37941/rr/2023/1.

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This compendium makes public much of the background research undertaken for the project: What Works in Gender and Health in the United Nations: Lessons Learned from Cases of Successful Gender Mainstreaming across Five UN Agencies. The compendium documents the history of efforts to integrate gender equality considerations institutionally and within health programmes implemented in the five UN agencies with a health mandate, namely UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNDP, WHO. Evaluations of gender mainstreaming in UN agencies have noted the near absence of knowledge management strategies on gender mainstreaming, thus hampering institutional memory and making learning from past experiences more difficult. The compendium aims to address this lacuna. It serves as a public resource documenting, in a single place, the history of gender mainstreaming efforts within each agency.
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Denton, Ashlie. Building Climate Empire: Power, Authority, and Knowledge Within Pacific Islands Climate Change Diplomacy and Governance Networks. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.6285.

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Chambers, Katherine, Joshua Murphy, Jessamin Straub, and Alejandra Enriquez. An examination of multihazard marine transportation system (MTS) response and recovery operations during the 2020 hurricane season. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), January 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/48078.

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The Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS), Resilience Integrated Action Team (RIAT), was established in 2014 to foster the coordination and coproduction of knowledge that incorporates the concepts of resilience into the marine transportation system (MTS). The RIAT defines resilience as a four-phase cycle that incorporates preparation, response, recovery, and adaptation activities to minimize disruption to the MTS. The RIAT utilizes this definition of resilience to convene first-responder CMTS agencies to examine challenges and successes and make recommendations about past hurricane seasons. The 2020 hurricane season saw a record-breaking number of storms form in the Atlantic basin during a global pandemic. As a result, federal agencies were challenged to operate in a multihazard posture, and many former lessons learned needed to be adjusted to this unprecedented situation.
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Menon, Nalini Chulliyil, and Matthew Walker. Critical knowledge gaps for compatibility of polymers with super-critical CO2 for power generation systems. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), March 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1527300.

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Frandsen, Brigham, and Lars Lefgren. Partial Identification of the Distribution of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24616.

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