10.12.2004

Ass. Prof. Marita Svane defended succesfully her Ph.D. on 10th December 2004. The evaluation committee was composed of Professor Øyvind Dahl, Misjonshøgskolen in Stavanger, Associate Professor Grethe Heldbjerg, University of Southern Denmark and Docent Lennart Nøreklit, Aalborg University. The session was chaired by Associate Professor John Kuada, Aalborg University. Professor Hans Gullestrup, Aalborg University, was Marita Svane´s Ph.D. supervisor.

After the defence much celebration followed during the reception and onwards.

21.10.03:
On October 21st, 2003, Department of Business Studies and International Business Economics (IBE) Group organized a Research Workshop on "Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning" with Paul Duguid from the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Paul Duguid in collaboration with his colleagues at the University of Berkeley, Institute for Research on Learning and PARC Xerox has made important contributions to the field of organizational learning, knowledge and innovation. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the implications of a Social Practice Perspective (Brown and Duguid, 2002) for managing knowledge in organizations, and, in particular, to explore how this perspective, developed by Duguid and his colleagues, could contribute to the understanding of the internationalization process of companies as well as the knowledge transfer and training in international strategic alliances (ISA) and collaborations. The workshop was attended by 20 participants from the Department of Business Studies and other institutes of Aalborg University. In addition to the workshop, Paul Duguid ran a short seminar for Ph.D. students on how to study learning and knowledge in practice and gave a talk to MSc students (MIKE and IBE) on the Emergence of Silicon Valley and Knowledge Dynamics, which stimulated growth of the region.

23.09.03:
Paul Duguid will visit IBE October 21-22.

PAUL DUGUID (A Biographical Profile)
An independent scholar, Paul Duguid ‹paul@SLofI.com› has affiliations with Copenhagen Business School (where he is part-time visiting professor in Industrial and Organizational Sociology) and the University of California, Berkeley (where he is a research specialist in Social and Cultural Studies in Education). In Spring 2003, he was a maitre de recherche at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He was formerly a long-term consultant (1988-2001) at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre and a member of the Institute for Research on Learning, a Palo Alto think tank dealing with issues of learning and design.
As well as co-author of The Social Life of Information, Paul is author of numerous articles on topics from the design of interfaces to the design of organizations. Having worked in publishing and written for both scholarly and popular audiences, much of his writing has focused on documentary practices and the effects on those practices of new documentary forms. His writings in this area include "The Social Life of Legal Information" (2002), "Material Matters" (1996) and, with John Seely Brown, "The Social Life of Documents" (1996) and "Borderline Issues" (1994). Recent articles focus on the development of brands in nineteenth-century newspaper advertising ("Developing the Brand," 2003) and diplomatic and economic wrangling in the fledgling British press of the eighteenth century ("The Methuen Treaty in the English Imagination," 2003).