Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Knowledge ...

Thi Hai Hang Nguyen is a lecturer at <strong>the</strong> Vietnam Aviation Academy, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Transportation <strong>of</strong> Vietnam.
She has 15 year experience working in Vietnam Aviation sector. She has been taking <strong>the</strong> PhD program at
<strong>the</strong> Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic and selected Knowledge Management as <strong>the</strong> topic <strong>of</strong>
PhD dissertation.
Gary R Oliver researches knowledge sharing behaviour and is currently Senior Lecturer at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong>
Sydney where he obtained a PhD in economics, an M. Ed. and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.
Gary has over 20 years commercial and government experience in strategy, information and knowledge,
project management, and procurement including CIO and GM roles.
Isabel Olmedo-Cifuentes is an assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor in <strong>the</strong> Business Management Department at Technical
University <strong>of</strong> Cartagena, Spain. Her current research interests are in corporate reputation and <strong>the</strong> influence
<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> different stakeholders in its configuration and evaluation. Her papers are publishing in prestigious
Spanish journals.
Omid Omidvar following his BSc. and MSc. in electronics and IT management, entered <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong>
Manchester/MIoIR PhD programme (2009). Aim <strong>of</strong> PhD is to understand how absorptive capacity and social
capital contribute to learning process in R&D partnerships. Also contributed to some MIoIR research projects
and has worked as a seminar leader during his PhD
Kaspars Osis is doctoral student at Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia. He got MSc.comp.sc. in 2001
and graduate certificate in Business Computing in 2004 both from Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant,
USA. He is a lecturer at Vidzeme University <strong>of</strong> Applied Sciences, Valmiera, Latvia. His research interests are
knowledge management, agent and mobile technologies.
Taha Osman Senior Lecturer at <strong>the</strong> College <strong>of</strong> Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University. He
gained his PhD in Fault-Tolerance <strong>of</strong> Distributed Computing Systems from <strong>the</strong> same University. Dr Osman
leads <strong>the</strong> Semantic Web research network at <strong>the</strong> department <strong>of</strong> computing and informatics and his research
interests include Multi-Agent Systems, Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Information
Retrieval.
Pushkal Kumar Pandey come’s from India and is currently pursuing PhD student at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Ulster.
After completing his Masters in Business Studies, he has worked as a customer support agent for a privately
owned contact centre in nor<strong>the</strong>rn Ireland Belfast. He is originally from India.
Paul Parboteeah is a Research Associate in <strong>the</strong> Department <strong>of</strong> Information Science at Loughborough
University. Current research focuses on introducing knowledge management initiatives in local government
and using autopoiesis to give KM a <strong>the</strong>oretical foundation. Committee member for a number <strong>of</strong> KM
conferences and has recently attracted AHRC funding to host a research conference.
Jan Pawlowski is a Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in Digital Media - Global Information Systems at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Jyväskylä,
Finland. Doctorate in Business Information Systems (University <strong>of</strong> Duisburg-Essen). Now a Pr<strong>of</strong>essor within
<strong>the</strong> Faculty <strong>of</strong> Information Technology. Main research interests: Cultural aspects in Information Systems,
Knowledge Management in Global Settings, Process Management, Tools for Global Collaboration,
Internationalization Competences.
Dan Paulin is a Lecturer and program director for M.Sc programs in Technology Management at Chalmers
University <strong>of</strong> Technology Go<strong>the</strong>nburg, Sweden. Dan manages executive education programs conducted in
Europe and Asia. His research interest includes KM issues in international settings and he has been working
with Swedish multinationals such as AB Volvo, SonyEricsson, IKEA, SKF and AtlasCopco.
Meysam Poorkavoos is a PhD student at <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Bedfordshire, UK, doing research on <strong>the</strong> impact
<strong>of</strong> inter-firm knowledge transfer networks on different types <strong>of</strong> innovation in SMEs. He holds a B.Sc. in
Computer Science from University <strong>of</strong> Tehran, Iran, and a M.Sc. in Information Systems from <strong>the</strong> Linnaeus
University, Sweden.
Evgeny Popov investigates <strong>the</strong> problems <strong>of</strong> institutional economics modeling and transaction cost
estimation for <strong>the</strong> firm and region levels. He is author <strong>of</strong> papers “Transaction Function” in <strong>the</strong> International
Advances in Economic Research (2008) and “Minieconomics as a Separate Part <strong>of</strong> Microeconomics” in <strong>the</strong>
Atlantic Economic Journal (2005).
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