This morning, while performing my daily review of knowledge news items, I found this reference to ProQuest's for pay access to dissertations:
Silicon Valley Biz Ink :: Dissertation Best-Sellers?
This press release lists the top 10 best selling dissertations on ProQuest's service for 2002. There is a most impressive showing of three Knowledg Management Dissertations in this group of top ten. Weighing in at number four is:
Assessing knowledge management initiative successes as a function of organizational culture. by Ribiere, Vincent Michel;, DSc, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, 2001, 158 pages
I also found Vincent Ribiere's dissertation available for download with free membership in the KM Documents - Knowledge Management forum at The George Washington University. (There are a number of additional KM dissertations and documents also available at this site.)
Listed as tied for the eighth position are:
Sharing knowledge through a knowledge management system: The relative effectiveness of formal control and organizational support, by Marks, Peter Vincent, Jr.;, PhD, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 2001, 146 pages
An empirical study of factors affecting successful implementation of knowledge management, by Choi, Yong Suk;, PhD, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN, 2000, 140 pages
You will find a comprehensive List of Ph.D. Dissertations in Knowledge Management during 1991-2002 available as a PDF download on ICASIT's KMCentral's KM Index page.
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