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Most organizations pursue knowledge sharing in order to: innovate faster, speed up their response to marketplace demands, increase productivity and expand workforce competence. Installing the technical tools for knowledge sharing is also apt to bring about another affect-a wholesale shift in the power paradigm-an outcome that is not always anticipated or welcome. As Buckman Laboratories found, knowledge sharing is not merely a neutral exchange of information-it affects working relationships, distribution of power, patterns of influence, and alters how individual define their responsibilities. This article explores some of the dramatic shifts that took place at Buckman Laboratories, a winner of the Arthur Andersen Enterprise Award for Knowledge Sharing and describes the effects of knowledge sharing on power paradigms.

Kristian Sandfeld explicitly excluded Judezmo from consideration in the second footnote to his classic (1930 [1926]) work Linguistique balkanique, which laid the groundwork for Balkan linguistics as a discipline offering an empirical basis for Trubetzkoy's theory of the Sprachbund. To this day, Judezmo still receives relatively little attention from Balkanists. Nevertheless, the language offers some particularly important insights into the Balkan Sprachbund. As an Ibero-Romance language sufficiently different from contemporary forms of Spanish to be considered separate and distinct, it represents a second sub-branch of Romance found within the Balkans. Judezmo has importance for Balkan linguistics owing to its relatively late arrival in the Balkans, when compared to the other convergent languages, and to the relative social isolation of Judezmo-speaking Jewish communities in the region. Importantly, there are features on which Balkan Judezmo converges with other Balkan languages, but others on which it does not. There are also Judezmo dialects outside the Balkans, and so, in conjunction with comparisons to other Ibero-Romance languages and dialects, Judezmo provides a control for distinguishing convergence from coincidence. In this article, we develop these observations and draw conclusions about the nature of language contact in the Balkans involving Judezmo-speaking Sephardim, as well as that involving the other languages, by contrast.

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