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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy, GIKA 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in July 2015. The theme of the conference was "New Knowledge Impacts on Designing Implementable Innovative Realities." The GIKA conference offers a unique opportunity for researchers, professionals, and students to present and exchange ideas concerning management, information systems, and business economics and see its implications in the real world. The 13 contributions accepted for GIKA 2015 were selected from 102 submissions and include research that contributes to the creation of a solid evidence base concerning new information and communication technologies for knowledge management, measuring the impact and diffusion of new technologies within organizations, and highlighting the role of new technologies and tools in the relationships between knowledge management and organizational innovation.

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The studentscale: measuring students´ motivation, interest, learning resources and styles.- Contribution of computing services to benchmarking asset management knowledge management.- Financing of productive investments: a model with coordinated scenarios.- A fuzzy logic approach to modeling brand value: evidence from taiwan´s banking industry.- Human resource characteristics and e-business: an fsQCA analysis.- The complexity of cyber-attacks in a new layered-security model and the maximum-weight, rooted-subtree problem.- Are problems with violence and the lack of public safety a barrier to entrepreneurship?.- The development of ICTs and the introduction of entrepreneurial capital.- Analysis and improvement of knowledge management processes in organizations using the Business Process Model Notation.- Re-examining the consistency in fsQCA.- A web services-based application for LMS data extraction and processing for social network analysis.- Fault tolerance patterns mining in dynamic databases.- A unified approach for the longest path problem on some tree-like graphs.

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