Which of them is grammatically correct?

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" An Investigation of the How of the Influencing of Knowledge Management on people" or "Analyzing the influence modality of Knowledge Management on people".
 
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Welcome to the forum. :hi:

I have no idea what you are trying to say but I can tell you that "... of the How of the Influencing" is grammatically incorrect. I don't do management-speak or business-speak so I don't know what "influence modality" or "knowledge management" are.

Note that thread titles should contain some or all of the words/phrases you are querying. A good title for this thread would have been "An investigation of the how".
 

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'The how' works informally as a noun: 'We know the why and the who, but we don't know the how'. But 'the Influencing of Knowledge Management on people' doesn't make any sense (and, much to my regret, I spent much of 2002 and 2003 studying Knowledge Management). In any case, this use of 'the how' is inappropriate in the title of an academic paper.

I share Ems's bafflement at the meaning of the second title, although I recognize that 'modality' as the sort of abstract waffle generated in this area! ;-)

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The second is grammatically OK for a title. The first isn't because of the How of the Influencing.
 

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'grammatically OK' in much the same way as 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' is grammatically OK ;-)

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Grammatical isn't a synonym of comprehensible. It has words in the right place, but I have no idea what it means. ;-)
 
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