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The Effect of Respect, Trust, and Fear in Adversarial Stakeholder Relationships: A Case Study on Water Commodification and Stakeholder Engagement
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Academic discussion around stakeholder engagement has been focused on the attributes of the various stakeholders rather than on the relationship between the stakeholders. This paper examines the role that intangible variables ...
The Reader’s Devices: The Affordances of Ebook Readers
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Print books and ebook devices now co-exist in a reading eco-system. The ways in which readers understand and describe their experience of reading on ebook devices is shaped by long-established cultural expectations about ...
Trends in Scholarly Use of Online Social Media
(Position paper presented at the Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration, the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 4-7, 2011, Kauai, HI, USA., 2011-01-04)
Cinema during the first two decades of the Soviet Union: how censorship of the arts inhibits the dissemination of information
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
This paper examines the increased censorship that film experienced during the inaugural decades of the Soviet Union. Through an overview of the different genres and trends of Soviet cinema during this time, I draw parallels ...
Geospatial Information Management: Spatial is Still Special
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)
This paper focuses on the interface between human information constructs and spatial decision making. Information policies associated with geospatial information are at the crux of any further development of infrastructures ...
Application of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Development in Institutions of Higher Education
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Campus sustainability is an increasingly popular notion for universities around the world in light of increasingly serious global environmental problems. Yet the very concept of “sustainability” itself is a complex, or ...
No Magic Solution: An examination of the arguments in favour of contracting out government services
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
This paper examines the arguments commonly used to support contracting out service delivery to the private sector and attempts to demonstrate that these arguments overestimate the benefits of contracting out. First, the ...
“Don’t be evil”: Uncovering the implications of Google search
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2011-03-31)
Google has taken the world by storm, and, with its fast and seemingly accurate search results, internet users are increasingly using this search engine to obtain the majority of their information. This paper studies the ...
The Importance of Knowledge Management and Trust in Relation to Disaster Response
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2010)
This article investigates the importance of Knowledge Management (KM) and trust in disaster response. In KM, a lack of trust and non-reciprocity of information can hinder the process of knowledge transfer. Similarly, a ...
The Spirit of Radio
(Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 2005)
As a source of information, local radio transcends the conveyance of explicit knowledge about a community and provides a tacit knowledge of the character of a community and a person's place within it. The speed and pattern ...