Creating a knowledge supply chain for e-tourism curriculum design: Integrating knowledge management and supply chain management

Higher education, as one of the most important knowledge providers and service suppliers to the society, is obliged to produce qualified intellectual products through the process of knowledge transfer and creation, which depends largely on the quality of knowledge and the way it is delivered within...

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Main Authors: Jing F., Chakpitak N., Goldsmith P., Sureephong P., Kunarucks T.
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Published: 2014
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-16712014-08-29T09:38:37Z Creating a knowledge supply chain for e-tourism curriculum design: Integrating knowledge management and supply chain management Jing F. Chakpitak N. Goldsmith P. Sureephong P. Kunarucks T. Higher education, as one of the most important knowledge providers and service suppliers to the society, is obliged to produce qualified intellectual products through the process of knowledge transfer and creation, which depends largely on the quality of knowledge and the way it is delivered within a curriculum. This research takes e-tourism, a relatively new discipline, as a case study, highlighting a knowledge supply chain is the potential solution to leverage the understanding of tourism industry needs and tourism curriculum provision. The paper begins with a competency gap analysis between knowledge demand and supply. It then applies the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model to analyze the "as-is" situation of the present knowledge flow in curriculum design, and finally proposes a "to-be" conceptual framework by integrating tools and methods of knowledge management and supply chain management in a knowledge supply chain (KSC). This demonstrates that a KSC can help in achieving e-tourism requirements of higher education stakeholders at both industrial and academic levels Copyright ? 2012, IGI Global. 2014-08-29T09:38:37Z 2014-08-29T09:38:37Z 2012 Article 15480666 10.4018/jkm.2012100104 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84877900237&partnerID=40&md5=b6eee1b3946c04ca7ed6f8801fe0f37a http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/1671 English
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description Higher education, as one of the most important knowledge providers and service suppliers to the society, is obliged to produce qualified intellectual products through the process of knowledge transfer and creation, which depends largely on the quality of knowledge and the way it is delivered within a curriculum. This research takes e-tourism, a relatively new discipline, as a case study, highlighting a knowledge supply chain is the potential solution to leverage the understanding of tourism industry needs and tourism curriculum provision. The paper begins with a competency gap analysis between knowledge demand and supply. It then applies the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model to analyze the "as-is" situation of the present knowledge flow in curriculum design, and finally proposes a "to-be" conceptual framework by integrating tools and methods of knowledge management and supply chain management in a knowledge supply chain (KSC). This demonstrates that a KSC can help in achieving e-tourism requirements of higher education stakeholders at both industrial and academic levels Copyright ? 2012, IGI Global.
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