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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 ...
Managing Current Complexity: Critical Energy Infrastructure Failures in North America
(2013-02-23)
This paper applies the competing theories of High Reliability Organizations (HRO) and Normal Accidents Theory (NAT), two competing views of risk management in highly-complex and tightly-coupled systems, in analyzing the ...
Seafood Ecolabels: For Whom and to What Purpose?
(2013-02-17)
Ecolabelling is regarded as an important tool used as a means of promoting sustainable fisheries around the world, as they provide consumers with the opportunity to exercise a choice between different seafood products and ...
“What do you mean I can’t just use Google?” Information Literacy in an Academic Setting
(2013-02-17)
Information literacy has become one of the most crucial skills for the twenty-first century, yet many Canadians, including university students, are not information literate. Universities in Canada aim to prepare students ...
The Breast vs. Bottle Battle: Infant Feeding Mis/Information
(2013-02-23)
That “breast is best” is a truism even infant formula manufacturers do not openly dispute, and the choice to breastfeed has increasingly become part of the measure of a good mother in modern Canadian society. Yet the ...
Sea level rise impacts in coastal zones: Soft measures to cope with it
(2013-02-17)
Sea level rise impacts are projected to cause multiple negative consequences in coastal zones such as coastal erosion, flooding, flood-related health problems, property damage and social-economic impacts. Thus, it is ...
Social Discovery Tools: Cataloguing Meets User Convenience.
(Canadian Association for Information Science, 2011)
The paper discusses (a) the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, (b) the relationship between culture and user convenience, and (c) how social discovery tools can facilitate the ...