Re: Knowledge Management in
Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: An investigation of factors influencing
choices of knowledge management systems
Dear Knowledge
Management Professional:
We invite you to take part in a research study
being conducted by Joyline Makani who is a graduate student at Dalhousie University, as part of her Interdisciplinary PhD studies. Your
participation in this study is voluntary and you may withdraw from the study at
any time. Your employment performance evaluation will not be affected by
whether or not you participate. The study is described below. This description
tells you about the risks, inconvenience, or discomfort which you might
experience. Participating in the study might not benefit you, but we might
learn things that will benefit others. You should discuss any questions you
have about this study with Joyline Makani.
The purpose of this
research is to understand what a KIO is, and extend a typology of “knowledge
intensive organizations” as a preliminary step to conducting research on these
types of organizations. The contribution of this study is to provide a basis of
distinguishing KIOs from other organizations, and also to allow researchers to
perform comparative organizational analysis. The study will also help
researchers identify which of the organizations are knowledge-intense, and the
nature of their knowledge-intensity, so that they help these organizations in
designing appropriate knowledge management tools. All information you provide will be considered completely confidential;
indeed, your name will not be included or in any other way associated with the
data collected in the study. All of the data will be summarized and no individual could be identified
from these summarized results. Furthermore, you will not be identified individually
in any way in any written reports of this research. Data collected during this study will be electronically archived after the completion of
the study, on a password-protected computer database, for five years after the
research study has been completed. Only the student and her supervisor will have access to this data.
You may
participate in this study if you consider yourself a knowledge management
professional and are familiar with the concept knowledge intensive organization
or knowledge intensive firm. The
survey will take about 15 minutes of your time. Your participation in this study is voluntary. You may decline to answer any
questions that you do not wish to answer and you can withdraw your
participation at any time. Additionally, if you begin entering responses to the
questionnaire on the Web and then choose not to complete the questionnaire, the
information that you have already entered will not be transmitted to us. It is important for you to know
that any information that you provide will be confidential. There are no known
or anticipated risks to you as a participant in this study.
If you have any questions regarding the study
and/or your involvement in it, please feel free to contact Joyline Makani at
902.494.2726.
This research is supervised by Dr. Sunny
Marche, Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Professor of Management
Information System in the School of Business Administration at Dalhousie
University.
If you have any difficulties with, or wish
to voice concern about, any aspect of your participation in this study, you may
contact Patricia Lindley, Director of Dalhousie University’s Office of Human
Research Ethics Administration, for assistance at (902) 494-1462, patricia.lindley@dal.ca
To participate please read the statement in the signature section below
and by clicking on “I consent” you acknowledge that you voluntarily
agree to be a respondent and you will be automatically taken to the survey
available at https://surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=6107
Thank you for your participation!
Signature Section
I have read the
explanation about this study. I have been given the opportunity to discuss it
and my questions have been answered to my satisfaction. I hereby consent to
take part in this study. However I realize that my participation is voluntary
and that I am free to withdraw from the study at any time.
I also understand that
this project has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, the
Office of Research Ethics Administration at Dalhousie University, and that I
may contact this office if I have any concerns or comments resulting from my
involvement in the study.
I
consent.
Principal Investigator: Joyline Makani
Doctoral Candidate in Knowledge Management, Dalhousie University
(902) 494-2726
makani@dal
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