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Books and their reviews are considered to be central to knowledge dissemination in the social sciences and humanities. Despite this perceive importance, few studies have assessed the relative importance of these document types in the dissemination of knowledge. This paper aims at better understanding the place of book reviews in the scholarly communication system and to shed light--through the analysis of books on Canada, United Kingdom and United States and their reviewers--on the international circulation of ideas in the social sciences and humanities. Based on 1,675,999 book reviews indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index over the 19752016 period, our results show that book reviews are decreasing in importance in all disciplines--especially those where books have historically been peripheral. We also observe a high rate of homophily between reviewers and reviewed books, with researchers being primarily interested in the books that have been written by someone from their own country. Hence, despite the now widely held assumptions of the globalization of science, social science and humanities remains a highly localized activity. Keywords: Book reviews, Social sciences, Humanities, Geography, Internationalization, Canada, United States, United Kingdom. Les monographies et leur comptes rendus sont consideres comme etant importants vehicules de diffusion des connaissances dans les sciences sociales et humaines. Malgre cette importance perdue, peu d'etudes ont mesure l'importance relative de ces types de documents dans le processus de diffusion des connaissances. Cet article vise a mieux comprendre la place des comptes rendus de monographies dans le systeme de diffusion des connaissances et a reveler--a travers l'analyse des monographies sur le Canada, les Etats-Unis et le Royaume-Uni et de leurs comptes rendus--la circulation intemationale des idees dans les sciences sociales et humaines. Base sur 1,675,999 comptes rendus indexes par le Social Science Citation Index et le Arts and Humanities Citation Index au cours de la periode 1975-2016, nos resultats montrent que les comptes rendus sont en decroissance dans l'ensemble des disciplines--et specialement dans celles ou ces types de documents sont plus peripheriques. Nous observons egalement d'importants taux d'homophilie entre les auteurs des comptes rendus les nations etudies dans les monographies, avec une majorite des comptes rendus realises par des auteurs venant du meme pays que celui etant etudie dans la monographie. Ainsi, malgre les discours sur la globalisation de l'activite scientifique, les sciences sociales et humaines demeurent hautement localisees. Mots cles: Critiques de livres, sciences sociales, sciences humaines, geographie, internationalisation, Canada, Etats-Unis, Royaume-Uni., INTRODUCTION Book reviews (BRs) have historically been central vectors for the dissemination and evaluation of scientific knowledge. Generally appearing at the end of scholarly journals, they are meant to allow [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.08.032 Byline: Antony Tang (a), Paris Avgeriou (b), Anton Jansen (b), Rafael Capilla (c), Muhammad Ali Babar (d) Keywords: Architectural knowledge management tool; Architectural design; Design rationale Abstract: Recent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is important and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different approaches have emerged to support such architectural knowledge (AK) management activities. However, there are different notions of and emphasis on what and how architectural activities should be supported. This is reflected in the design and implementation of existing AK tools. To understand the current status of software architecture knowledge engineering and future research trends, this paper compares five architectural knowledge management tools and the support they provide in the architecture life-cycle. The comparison is based on an evaluation framework defined by a set of 10 criteria. The results of the comparison provide insights into the current focus of architectural knowledge management support, their advantages, deficiencies, and conformance to the current architectural description standard. Based on the outcome of this comparison a research agenda is proposed for future work on AK tools. Author Affiliation: (a) Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia (b) University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands (c) Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain (d) University of Limerick, Ireland Article History: Received 14 July 2008; Revised 24 August 2009; Accepted 24 August 2009 Article Note: (footnote) [star] All authors have contributed equally to this work.

The article demonstrates the importance of experimentation and reflection to maintaining success, and delineates the concept of execution-as-learning.

This article was originally published in 1991. It emphasizes the importance of drawing from the tacit, subjective insights and intuitions of individuals within the company, and the key role that an employee's personal commitment plays in this process.

This study examines the relationship between knowledge strategy (exploration or exploitation) and performance, and the possible moderating role of external environment variables. Results from a sample of small manufacturing firms [...]

The article assesses components of human capital and the importance of 'fit' in successful management. Human capital components, listed from most to least portable, include general management, strategic, industry, relationship, and company-specific; each of these are discussed.

Mode 2 knowledge production is applied to management research. Solution-oriented knowledge is identified as Management Theory; description-oriented knowledge is identified as Organization Theory. The potential for an interdisciplinary relationship between these two is discussed.

The relationship between knowledge and information is explored. Knowledge can be considered as a mnemically and organizationally confirmed meaning whereas information consists of the process of temporization of the meaning.

A model is developed that links a macroeconomic model with localized knowledge production to delineate the impact of knowledge spillovers on regional growth. The model is applied to a Hungarian data set.

A study conducted to analyze the relationship between social capital and knowledge creation at the individual level, is presented. It was found that as relationships increased in number, returns to knowledge creation diminished, and the strength of interpersonal relations had a higher marginal effect on knowledge creation than the number of relations.

The article distinguishes between the two types of social capital, internal bonding and external bridging, and how each influences outcomes in within a team project setting. It is posited that strong internal bonding is necessary for the successful integration of knowledge acquired through external bridging.

It is posited that social capital offers disadvantages to firms as well as advantages, and that the literature has emphasized benefits over drawbacks, which have been under-researched. Discussion focuses on the importance of understanding the bonding and bridging components of social capital, as these are key for its successful implementation.

An ethnographic study of organizational collaboration in the telecommunications industry is presented to illustrate the multiple strategies, techniques and expressions of power and politics in knowledge management. Discussion focuses on problem solving in a software implementation project.

The article examines the conflict between local and putative expert knowledge and how the former, which is garnered by practitioners working across a wide community, is usually discounted by the latter, which is held by centrally located executives and managers. Discussion focuses on these geographic and hierarchical peripheries.

The article examines both organizational-level innovation research and team-level innovation research to identify two types of systems that affect a firm's capability to create knowledge: the organization strategy and the project team strategy. It is posited that the organization strategy better predicts knowledge creation capability outcomes.

The introduction of the special issue on organizational knowledge focuses on examining the practices and processes that are used to create knowledge within organizations, and how politics and power impact competing forms of knowledge.

The article examines programmed organizational learning and autonomous-formal organizational learning. The relative emphasis these receive depend on management philosophy and institutional characteristics such as franchisee status and professionalization. A dispersed form, spontaneous organizational learning, is also examined, and found to be attenuated when knowledge was regarded as a commodity.

The article examines the ways in which information technology is changing the manner in which data is organized, and how the relationships between items of data are constantly changing.

Academics, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly interested in the contribution that effective management of knowledge across organizational and professional boundaries can make to improved public services. Examining knowledge sharing within the context of the UK NHS, we ground our investigation in neoinstitutional organizational sociology. We highlight the influence of regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive aspects of institutions operating in the health care field on the boundaries that impede knowledge sharing. We illustrate how institutional isomorphic processes facilitate convergence within groups of organizations and occupations subject to the same institutional pressures, but, by the same token, inhibit convergence across different organizational and occupational groupings. In short, the development of a learning organization, where knowledge is shared freely across boundaries, will be difficult to realize.

This paper estimates the effects of knowledge spillovers on patent growth rates across 335 European regions over the 1989u1999 period. We propose a dynamic model based on an innovation production function. A Bayesian approach is used to take into account areaspecific innovation and spatial spillovers. The estimation of the model proceeds via Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. The results show significant positive and negative spatial effects on innovative activity. The model allows for a rich spatial specification, which we illustrate by incorporating transport proximity measured by transportation time between regions to augment the typical spatial proximity measure of connectivity between regions. Doing this produces more pronounced spatial spillovers that exhibit a more polarized spatial pattern than a model relying on spatial proximity alone.

Academic researchers who work on health policy and health services are expected to transfer knowledge to decision makers. Decision makers often do not, however, regard academics' traditional ways of doing research and disseminating their findings as relevant or useful. This article argues that consulting can be a strategy for transferring knowledge between researchers and decision makers and is effective at promoting the 'enlightenment' and 'interactive' models of knowledge use. Based on three case studies, it develops a model of knowledge transfer-focused consulting that consists of six stages and four types of work. Finally, the article explores how knowledge is generated in consulting and identifies several classes of factors facilitating its use by decision makers.

This study evaluates the impact of knowledge spillovers on the convergence of productivity among firms. With the use of patent citation data, knowledge spillovers are decomposed into intra- and inter-industry spillovers, and internal knowledge flows. The findings from this study suggest that each firm is converging to its own steady-state productivity growth rate, which is conditional on the firm's R&D efforts and the intensity of intra-industry spillovers it receives. Moreover, if technology followers and leaders invest equally in R&D activities, the followers will eventually catch up with the leaders because the former tend to be the ones who receive knowledge spillovers from the latter.

The article identifies the four phases of knowledge creation: socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization, and examines these in correlation with knowledge transfer during product redesign and steady state in the automobile manufacturing industry.

The article examines how local recipient networks and multinational enterprise source networks influence affect knowledge transfer, using the automotive industry in China as an illustration. This dual networks approach is discussed relative to future research on relationships between multinational corporations and their international joint venture partners.

The authors identify two forms of knowledge stocks, declarative memory and procedural, that influence new product creativity and performance. These knowledge stocks are, in turn, influenced by external and internal information flows. The interaction of these factors is illustrated and their implications for management and future research are discussed.

This article summarizes an extensive literature review addressing the question, How can we spread and sustain innovations in health service delivery and organization? It considers both content (defining and measuring the diffusion of innovation in organizations) and process (reviewing the literature in a systematic and reproducible way). This article discusses (1) a parsimonious and evidence-based model for considering the diffusion of innovations in health service organizations, (2) clear knowledge gaps where further research should be focused, and (3) a robust and transferable methodology for systematically reviewing health service policy and management. Both the model and the method should be tested more widely in a range of contexts.

A model is presented that illustrates how corporations use venture capital, acquisitions, and alliances to improve their capabilities in creating and developing ventures. The key component is the adaptation of knowledge to corporate-specific contexts via experiential learning processes.

The interaction between personal and shared components of context is examined within the framework of knowledge-type taxonomy, and findings are used to suggest ways in which entities can draw more value from internal initiative investments through promoting knowledge among employees.

The article examines the process of rhetoric in management knowledge, in which rhetoric is seen as a closed system that operates to maintain the status quo between producers of management knowledge and its consumers. Discussion focuses on issues of context and style.

The article contrasts the dynamic evolution of vertical boundaries of two corporations to illustrate how vertical boundaries reflect the ways in which companies approach the integration and division of knowledge. Implications regarding configuration of capabilities are also discussed.

The co-production model for knowledge creation and transfer is described, providing guidelines for cooperation between academics and managers to reduce the theory-practice gap. The science base is systematically reviewed to synthesize knowledge and foster efficient transfer.

Knowledge access, rather than acquisition, is examined as the primary benefit offered by interfirm alliances, specifically because it improves efficiency in knowledge application.

The author examines two knowing exchange value processes, knowing through a fad bandwagon and knowing through a learning bandwagon, and applies these processes to firms manipulating their network positions. The findings emphasize the importance of network embeddedness as a research subject.