A paper on the need to combat Diogenes syndrome in organizations, by Juan Gabriel Cegarra, professor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and Anthony Wensley, University of Toronto, has achieved one of the Global Innovation and Awards Knowledge Academy 2014.
The award-winning research, called "Overcoming the Loss of Knowledge through the Utilization of an Unlearing Context" REF: ECO2011-28641-C02-02, highlights the need to combat Diogenes syndrome that many organizations are suffering through the presence of a context the authors call for unlearning.
The work uses data from the project "Knowledge, learning and ICT in the genesis of dynamic capabilities: Impact on Banking Sector" by states that organizational absorptive capacity unlearning new knowledge is increased while all that knowledge is removed is now obsolete and misleading, says Juan Gabriel Cegarra responsible is "Business Administration" ..
"Overcoming the Loss of Knowledge through the Utilization of an Unlearing Context" was shortlisted for a monograph published in Journal of Business Research and will be a subject of meeting and discussion at the European Conference on Intellectual Capital seventh to be held in the Faculty of Science Company UPCT during 8-10 April 2015.
In the picture, Juan Gabriel Cegarra Professor and Professor Anthony Wensley to receive the award from the hands of Valencia Ana Maria Hidalgo (general coordinator ANECA) and Arch Wooside (head of Business Research Journal editor) one of the prizes Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy 2014.
Source: UPCT