Research QuestionsBack to Research Proposal
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- How is KM competence developed in graduate KM programs?
- How is KM competence defined? By coordinators? By instructors? By students?
- How do KM programs attempt to develop KM competence?
- How do students perceive the development of KM competence?
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- How has graduate KM education been practiced and why?
- What is KM and how has it evolved?
- How has graduate KM education evolved?
- How has KM been taught in graduate KM programs?
- What are the reasons behind existing programs' designs?
[by
'how has KM been taught', we mean the selection of topics, its grouping
in courses, and the sequencing of courses along the program. Thus, it
means being taught at the program level, and not at the classroom level
(especially pedagogy).]--05.5.22--
- How does education in graduate KM programs contribute to KM literacy?
- How can the diverse perspectives on KM be integrated?
- How can KM literacy be defined?
- How is KM taught in existing programs?
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- Why and how have graduate KM programs evolved?
- Who are the main stakeholders in KM education?
- What are the characteristics of existing KM programs?
- How were existing programs developed?
- What were the motives behind the development?
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Notes on Methodology.
- Topic: formal KM education
- Question: How do existing graduate KM programs relate to typical KM roles?
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Significance 1 (so what?): to understand how formal KM education supports adoption and expansion of KM in organizations
- Significance 2 (and so what?): to understand how higher education prepares the workforce for the knowledge economy
Main research question:
- How do existing KM degree programs relate to typical KM roles?
Subsidiary research questions:
- What kinds of institutions and instructors are involved with graduate KM education?
- How are existing programs organized and what content is taught?
- What typical KM roles do institutions expect graduates to assume?
- How do institutions relate the program to expected KM roles?
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Main research question:
How can formal KM education prepare knowledge managers?
Subsidiary research questions:
- What is KM? What are the main strands in KM research? How can those strands be integrated? How can research be integrated to practice?
- What is a knowledge manager? Which roles are associated to knowledge work and KM? What are the responsibilities and activities of a knowledge manager?
- How are KM degree programs being taught? Which institutions are offering KM degree programs? What is the organization and content of existing KM degree programs?
- How can existing KM degree programs be improved? What are the shortcomings of existing KM degree programs? How can those shortcomings be overcome?
More questions:
- What should be included in a graduate degree program?
- How can KM be adequately taught at a graduate degree level?
- What is the demand for graduate KM education?
- How can the demand for graduate KM education be described?
- Who is the audience of graduate KM education?
- What is the current situation of graduate KM education?
- What is the current offering of KM education in general?
- What is the current situation of KM education?
- Who is offering KM education?
- How can KM education be adequately developed?
--05.5.16-- Sensei suggested not using research questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no. Should use what, why, how questions.
Must think of other ones.
- How are knowledge managers being educated?
- What is being taught in KM degree programs?
- Why is KM education necessary?
- Who is the knowledge manager?
- Why are knowledge managers needed?
--05.5.14-- I
think I will have to change the research proposal I presented in the
entrance examination. I'm still having problems to justify a focus on
technology-oriented KM education, when KM education as a whole is not
well understood yet. Neither the role of technology in KM, by the way.
In
reviewing the literature, I noticed that all articles on KM education
are from researchers in the library and information science field. That
is because they are the most interested in the professionalization of
KM, that is, to institutionalize the KM professional. This makes the
literature on KM education completely biased. I need to balance this
with other sources, have to find out which.
So I came out with these hypotheses:
- KM is a multi-disciplinary/fragmented field
- KM education reflects this multi-disciplinarity/fragmentation
And I designed these tentative research questions:
- Is KM education preparing knowledge managers?
- What is KM?
- related fields: innovation management, management of technology, organizational learning
- What is a knowledge manager?
- related terms: knowledge worker, knowledge professional, KM professional, KM manager
- What is KM education?
- Who is KM education educating (both entrants and graduates)? What for?
Some questions I have in mind, but don't think to put them as research questions:
- Is KM needed?
- Are knowledge managers needed?
- Is KM education needed?
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