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Knowledge Management Tools and Their Role in Doctoral Studies

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Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2014)

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Knowledge management (KM) plays an important role in coordination of students’ activities during their doctoral studies. To maximize its effect, students need to use it effectively. Many existing KM tools can be used in students’ doctoral studies, however, many students are lack of knowledge in them. Students either use KM tools ineffectively or not use them at all. KM tools are important for doctoral students’ research because these tools can increase students’ awareness of issues that they face in their research. Hence, we proposed a set of tools to increase students’ knowledge of KM tools and their role, which are summarized in the proposed framework. Based on the problems many doctoral students face at the University of Žilina, the proposed set of tools should enable students to increase the quality level of their doctoral thesis and research.

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This paper is supported by project: Research park of the University of Zilina (ITMS: 26220220184) supported by the Research & Development Operational Programme funded by the European Regional Development Fund, VEGA n. 1/0363/14 - Innovation management, VEGA n. 1/0621/14 Marketing management in cooperation environment.

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  1. University Science Park, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 1, 010 26, Žilina, Slovak Republic

    Anna Závodská & Veronika Šramová

  2. Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 1, 010 26, Žilina, Slovak Republic

    Katarína Púčková & Lenka Kocifajová

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  1. Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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  2. Universidad Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile

    Darcy Fuenzaliza Oshee

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

  4. Universidad Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile

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Závodská, A., Šramová, V., Púčková, K., Kocifajová, L. (2014). Knowledge Management Tools and Their Role in Doctoral Studies. In: Uden, L., Fuenzaliza Oshee, D., Ting, IH., Liberona, D. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations. KMO 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08618-7_15

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