Knowledge Management Concepts and Processes in Healthcare - Research Plan for Doctoral Thesis

Helvi Nyerwanire, Erja Mustonen-Ollila, Antti Valpas, Jukka Heikkonen

2014

Abstract

This study presents a research plan for a doctoral thesis about Knowledge Management in Healthcare. It outlines objectives, research problems, state of the art, methodology and expected outcome. The study introduces current knowledge management concepts, the research questions, and a conceptual framework of knowledge management processes. It also outlines data collection methods and data analyzing methods. In this study both qualitative analyzing methods with the grounded theory approach and quantitative data analysis with novel intelligent computing and analyzing methods are applied. This doctoral study is planned to take a total of five (5) years (January 2012- January 2017) in which the output will be five (5) conference articles, and one journal article. Furthermore, a relevant introductory section of the thesis will be written in this period. One conference article has been accepted in 2012, another conference article was submitted for a review in 2014, and one journal article in under work.

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Nyerwanire H., Mustonen-Ollila E., Valpas A. and Heikkonen J. (2014). Knowledge Management Concepts and Processes in Healthcare - Research Plan for Doctoral Thesis . In Doctoral Consortium - DC3K, (IC3K 2014) ISBN Not Available, pages 3-10. DOI: 10.5220/0005108300030010


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author={Helvi Nyerwanire and Erja Mustonen-Ollila and Antti Valpas and Jukka Heikkonen},
title={Knowledge Management Concepts and Processes in Healthcare - Research Plan for Doctoral Thesis},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DC3K, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={3-10},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005108300030010},
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TY - CONF
JO - Doctoral Consortium - DC3K, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Knowledge Management Concepts and Processes in Healthcare - Research Plan for Doctoral Thesis
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AU - Nyerwanire H.
AU - Mustonen-Ollila E.
AU - Valpas A.
AU - Heikkonen J.
PY - 2014
SP - 3
EP - 10
DO - 10.5220/0005108300030010