•  137
    Knowledge from the Marketplace: The Next Generation Socioeconomic Engagement
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 20 (1): 61-73. 2022.
    For this study, we have considered Facebook Marketplace (FBM) to understand how knowledge from the social networking world affects consumer choice and behavior, ie, users' economic decisions.[...] the FBM could be considered as a digital socioeconomic system where availability of digital trace data from user interactions would enable studies of population-level human interactions (Sundararajan et al., 2013).
  •  120
    The Influence of Social Knowledge on Consumer Decision-Making Process
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 19 (4): 41-50. 2021.
    This paper is an attempt to understand how social knowledge affects human economic decision making. The paper discusses the nature of social knowledge in today’s context with special reference to how social knowledge influences consumers’ sentiments and their economic decisions. Social networks are being continuously flooded with various kinds of information and disinformation. Some of the information becomes knowledge for social network users who browse various kinds of content that are either …Read more
  •  108
    The Role Played by Public Libraries in Promoting Information Literacy and User Education
    with Mousumi Samanta and Sujoy Dey
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 19 (1): 36-49. 2021.
    Public Libraries (PLs) continue to contribute a great deal to user education in local communities. This paper analyzes the importance of PLs in driving community literacy through promotion of user education for the progressive improvement of the society. The paper stresses the relevance and value of PLs by reassessing the benefits they accrue by analyzing the impact of PLs on community and social education. As indigenous knowledge repositories, PLs play a significant role as community informatio…Read more
  •  94
    Managing Constraints and Removing Obstacles to Knowledge Management
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 12 (4): 24-38. 2014.
    Practice of knowledge management is often characterized by obstacles to creation, distribution, and transfer of knowledge from specific groups of settings. Obstacles or constraints to attempts to constitute knowledge as an organizational resource have been previously dealt within the context of organizational learning perspectives; however, there still remain barriers toward making learning available and all-pervasive throughout organizations. This is often as a result of two important factors: …Read more
  •  94
    Constraints in Organizational Learning, Cognitive Load and Its Effect on Employee Behavior
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 11 (4): 7-19. 2013.
    Traditionally, learning organizations face certain constraints related to both exogenous and endogenous factors. This paper models three well-established constraints that employees face while being part of their organizations. One is an explicit constraint on their natural behavior, and two implicit constraints on their endeavor to acquire new knowledge and perform new actions. The implicit constraints, which are elaborated, are related to their relative performance in acquiring new knowledge an…Read more
  •  87
    The Search for Relevance in Knowledge Management: An Ontological Perspective.
    with Sujoy Dey
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 17 (1): 53-66. 2019.
    The significance of and the role played by Knowledge Management (KM) is ever increasing in today's business and organizational decision-making environment. This paper attempts to underline the importance of organizing knowledge not for its own sake, but for its efficient use in organizational decision making. The tremendous explosion of knowledge resources, both electronic and conventional, within the last few decades calls for an understanding of how knowledge is organized for management of dat…Read more
  •  81
    Knowledge Resource Inequality
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 19 (3): 49-75. 2021.
    Inequality is an effect of much concern for economists and policy makers. Inequality gives rise to poverty, a phenomenon still troubling the world economy, characterized by a gap wherein the standard deviation between the rich and the poor is too high. Various factors are attributed to the growing inequality, but one which is often overlooked is misallocation of knowledge resources. In this paper, we reinforce the concept of knowledge as being a capital resource. Following this, by using a simpl…Read more
  •  76
    Workforce education forms one of the core aspects of organizational learning which aims for performance as well as efficiency. Learning is goal-oriented in business organizations. Organizations' activities are highly-oriented towards customer satisfaction. Organizations learn from practice and delivery of services to meet consumer needs and necessities. Perfection, efficiency and smart practices define today's multinational organizational culture. But how do the multinational organizations achie…Read more
  •  76
    On the Theoretical Foundations of Gen Inertia.
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 4 (15): 54-68. 2017.
    This paper addresses the foundational aspects of the theory of Gen inertia. We attempt to emphasize the cognitive factors that accounts for learning inertia in organizations, and that which prevents employees from generating and absorbing new knowledge. The novel concept of Gen inertia helps us to understand the causes behind inertia in learning among the knowledge workers under organizational settings. This concept of 'Gen inertia' is distinct from the pre-existing concept of organizational kno…Read more
  •  65
    A Primer on Social Knowledge
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 16 (4): 51-78. 2018.
    The primary goal of this research is to search for relevance in social knowledge with respect to the role played by social information in economic modeling. Social information is derived from social processes. We attempt to explore how social concepts and principles find applications in science of economics and how they could be used more efficiently to model the behavior of economic agents. In attempting to do so, we try to elucidate what social knowledge is and what constitutes the body of soc…Read more
  •  52
    Optimizing the Productive Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms: A Model Framework
    IUP Journal of Knowledge Management 21 (4): 48-65. 2023.
    Firms strive hard to achieve a high degree of efficiency on the production frontier, and it is where they compete to excel with their competitors. It is observed from previous studies that standardizing some policies and developing strategies could bring efficiency in production of manufacturing firms. New approaches to the measurement of productive efficiencies are being developed, and analysis of the subject is growing exponentially, since firms are now more concerned about the productivity fr…Read more
  •  15
    Decision Choice under Pareto Optimal Criteria
    Journal of Applied Economic Sciences (JAES) 17 (Fall 3(77)). 2022.
    According to the axiomatic foundations of social choice theory, not all decisions benefit everyone. Often, decisions that do not have any implied benefit for the decision maker are made in the (best) interests of others. When a decision is made concerning welfare of others, some individuals—including the decision maker, may be on the receiving end. For, it is impossible to make social decisions by taking into account individual preferences that satisfy all and everyone. This is on account of a g…Read more
  •  8
    How Strategic Organizational Competency Contributes to the Development of Organizational Intelligence
    Journal of Applied Economic Sciences (JAES) (2(80)): 121-130. 2023.
    The knowledge that organizations possess, produce, and acquire adds to their strategic competency and intelligence. Organizations develop intelligence from practice and learning by doing. There is a definite relationship that exists between organizational learning and productivity that contributes to the development of organizational intelligence. Organizational intelligence is of difference kinds, but almost all of them develop from organizational actions and learning that includes but are not …Read more
  •  6
    Understanding the Ergonomics of Attrition
    European Journal of Studies in Management and Business (Formerly Management and Business Research Quarterly) 22 11-18. 2022.
    Although the paradigm of problems and their solutions are vastly diverse in business organizations, yet this paper focuses on two specific but important issues relating employee empowerment to their efficiency that are tied to higher attrition rates in some companies that are of much concern to senior managements. The causes are modelled and explained. The causes often relate to faulty and inadequate employee empowerment and motivation systems in place. This paper attempts to address two unique …Read more
  •  6
    Choice That’s Rational
    Research,Innovation,Technologies -Hub forAcademics 1 (1): 33-39. 2022.
    In this paper, it is about the axiomatic basis of rational choice theory - the theory that is behind making rational choice and decisions. To make rational choices, we would require thinking rationally and understanding the reason and logic behind what makes a choice rational, and how we need to choose rationally. Decisions are made under various circumstances, i.e., under risk, and often under compulsion. In social choice theory, decisions are made by different types of decision making entities…Read more
  •  4
    Organizing Library Intrapreneurship
    Journal of Advanced Research in Management 12 (1(23)): 13-18. 2021.
    Libraries occupy a special space in our society, and our minds. Today, public libraries are struggling hard to attract new users and increase footfalls that seem to be in the downtrend. Besides, Physical Libraries need innovations in their services frontier to survive stiff competition from virtual digital libraries that provide instant access to information at no cost. Librarians and library professionals as knowledge managers could help design and foster entrepreneurship models of service deli…Read more
  •  3
    Knowledge Management: A Tool and Technology for Organizational Success
    Journal of Research, Innovation and Technologies (1): 7-17. 2023.
    Knowledge is a productive resource having successful applications in almost every field and domain of human activities. With unprecedented growth in knowledge resources and explosion in data, such informative resources need effective organization for storage and efficient retrieval for future uses. The entire process involving organization, storage, and dissemination of knowledge falls under the auspices of knowledge management. Thus, Knowledge Management is an organizational practice. In this r…Read more
  •  2
    The primary theme of this book is related to library and information science. The book is arranged into several chapters related to specific issues in knowledge organization and information dissemination. Library and Information science is a rapidly growing specialized field which is currently demanding ever more attention due to tremendous growth in data, information, and knowledge across the world. Therefore, to cater the growing need of library science professionals, and increasing demand for…Read more