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Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PEDERSEN, S., BURNETT, S., SMITH, R. and NEILL, A. 2013. Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease. Selected papers of internet research [online], 13: selected papers from the 13th Association of Internet Researchers conference (IR 13.0), 18-21 October 2012, Salford, UK, article number 8219. Available from: https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8219

There is an expanding literature on the police use of storytelling, but very little has been written in a policing context in relation to the contemporary practice of blogging. Consequentially, this paper reports on an ongoing research project into t... Read More about Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease..

Venting, joining and educating: motivations for knowledge sharing in the UK police blogosphere. (2012)
Journal Article
BURNETT, S., PEDERSEN, S., SMITH, R. and O'NEILL, A. 2012. Venting, joining and educating: motivations for knowledge sharing in the UK police blogosphere. Business information review, 29(1), pages 57-63. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0266382112438689

This article examines motivations for knowledge sharing in blogs written by police officers. It draws on the findings of a research project completed in 2011 based on content analysis of 63 blogs.

Storytelling through blogging: a knowledge management and therapeutic tool in policing. (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
BURNETT, S., PEDERSEN, S. and SMITH, R., 2011. Storytelling through blogging: a knowledge management and therapeutic tool in policing. SIPR Research Summary. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research, Scool of Social Sciences, University of Dundee [online]. Available from: http://www.sipr.ac.uk/Plugin/Publications/assets/files/Research_Summary_13.pdf

Narrative and storytelling play an important part in knowledge management in policing and criminal justice contexts. As probationary constables and young officers, officers learn the job from listening to the stories of others, and for this reason pa... Read More about Storytelling through blogging: a knowledge management and therapeutic tool in policing..

Knowing through narratives: the role of knowledge within the technological innovation process in the UK upstream oil and gas industry. (2010)
Thesis
BURNETT, S.M. 2010. Knowing through narratives: the role of knowledge within the technological innovation process in the UK upstream oil and gas industry. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis.

The aim of this research was to further understanding of the role of knowledge and knowledge-based processes within the process of technological innovation within the UK upstream oil and gas industry. The scope of the research encompassed three group... Read More about Knowing through narratives: the role of knowledge within the technological innovation process in the UK upstream oil and gas industry..

Knowledge auditing and mapping: a pragmatic approach. (2004)
Journal Article
BURNETT, S., ILLINGWORTH, L. and WEBSTER, L. 2004. Knowledge auditing and mapping: a pragmatic approach. Knowledge and process management [online], 11(1), pages 25-37. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.194

Increasingly the knowledge and skills of employees are seen as valuable assets that may be utilised in order to gain competitive advantage at an organisational level. This paper seeks to describe the process, methods and resulting outcomes of a knowl... Read More about Knowledge auditing and mapping: a pragmatic approach..