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Elayne Coakes

Westminster Business School
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Co-operative work practices and knowledge sharing issues: A comparison of viewpoints

EW Coakes, JM Coakes, D Rosenberg - International Journal of Information …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper, we set out to explore the organisational knowledge that evolves from virtual co-operative
work experiences. Through case narratives we demonstrate issues that can arise …

Sustainable innovation and right to market

EW Coakes, PAC Smith, D Alwis - Information Systems …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This study fills a gap in the innovation literature contributing broadly-based critical, theoretical,
and practical insights to assist in achieving “Right to Market.” The insights will enable an …

Specifications in context: stakeholders, systems and modelling of conflict

JM Coakes, EW Coakes - Requirements Engineering, 2000 - Springer
This paper looks from an ethnographic viewpoint at the case of two information systems in a
multinational engineering consultancy. It proposes using the rich findings from ethnographic …

[BOOK][B] Knowledge management: Current issues and challenges

E Coakes - 2003 - books.google.com
Since the 1990s, we have had an increasing number of books and journal articles
discussing knowledge management (KM) and how it can be performed. So far, we have not …

Strategic planning for information systems: A sociotechnical view of boundary and stakeholder insufficiencies

EW Coakes - 2002 - bura.brunel.ac.uk
The thesis proposes that Strategic Planning for Information Systems (SPIS) has become
ineffective through a tendency to focus on the information technologies involved. The thesis …

Developing innovative practice in service industries

EW Coakes, P Smith, D Alwis - … of research on socio-technical design …, 2009 - igi-global.com
This chapter presents the argument that service innovation is promoted by supporting
divergent interpretations, enlarging the scope of employee and organizational skills and …

[BOOK][B] Knowledge management in the sociotechnical world: the graffiti continues

E Coakes, D Willis, S Clarke - 2012 - books.google.com
This book follows on from Elayne Coakes' previous book in the CSCW series, The New
SocioTech (published April 2000). Whereas that book gave a broad introduction to the re-…

Knowledge management: A primer

E Coakes - The Communications of the Association for Information …, 2004 - aisel.aisnet.org
Coakes we should consider the saying ‘knowledge is power’ as is so often mentioned in
this context. … Coakes 3. the fact or condition of being cognisant, conscious or aware of …

Communities of practice

E Coakes, S Clarke - Encyclopedia of knowledge management, 2006 - books.google.com
This article looks at the concept of communities of practice (CoPs) in the workplace. The
theories surrounding these types of communities are still very new and in the process of …

Identifying key factors affecting transnational knowledge transfer

Y Duan, W Nie, E Coakes - Information & management, 2010 - Elsevier
We wished to further understand Transnational Knowledge Transfer (TKT) in a not-for-profit
context. To accomplish this, we explored, verified, and mapped out the key factors affecting …