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Building A Foundation For Knowledge Management Research: Developing, Validating, And Applying The Knowledge Internalization Construct, Kamphol Wipawayangkool Oct 2011

Building A Foundation For Knowledge Management Research: Developing, Validating, And Applying The Knowledge Internalization Construct, Kamphol Wipawayangkool

Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations

The notion of knowledge internalization (KI), albeit a critical link in Nonaka's (1994) organizational knowledge creation theory, has not been rigorously conceptualized and defined, let alone operationalized. To strengthen the foundation for knowledge management (KM) research, we attempt to fulfill the following research objectives in the three essays of this dissertation. In the first essay, by drawing from Anderson (1983)'s ACT (adaptive control of thought) theory and Glaser et al. (1985)'s framework on the dimensions of cognitive skills, we develop the construct of KI and demonstrate its nomological validity by examining its role in knowledge sharing phenomenon through its relationships …


Data Mining In Financial Markets, Stephen Evans Jan 2011

Data Mining In Financial Markets, Stephen Evans

Information Systems & Operations Management Theses

Momentum in financial markets can cause securities prices to continue trending upward/downward based on the recent performance. This paper reviews a study that attempts to discover how much daily returns in the stock market can be explained by financial momentum. This study uses classification data mining to attempt to predict the direction of daily returns of randomly selected stocks from the Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 stock indexes. The study uses moving averages of historical daily stock prices as attributes, along with different data mining classifiers, to attempt to make these predictions. A secondary goal of this study is to …