The concept of knowledge management has gained significant recognition among theoreticians and practitioners over the past decade. The concept was introduced as a certain idea - a proposal intended to guarantee high performance. When radical changes take place in the economic, social and...

Author presents her original model of development of managerial and organizational competencies needed by modern businesses, and explains its main assumptions and hypotheses. Describes research results that main objective was to work out and verify this model. The research was carried out in the...

It can be said, that every day the world is changing faster than ever before. Changes in access to information, speed of technology development and transfer of knowledge create this situation. Nowadays the companies have to be faster than their competitors to be the best and to survive on the...

This article presents and justifies the following thesis: competitiveness of businesses depends considerably on the existence of a regional environment. As an example to prove the set thesis, the author shows the Podkarpackie Aviation Valley, the first and the biggest modern cluster in Poland,...

Six Sigma is a well known methodology for quality and process improvement with an emphasis on defect prevention rather than defect detection. By reducing variation and waste in the process, bottom line results and competitive advantage are to be improved. Knowledge Management on the other hand...

On July 22, 2006 the Polish Parliament enacted a new law on a European cooperative society (SCE); the law determines rules for formation, organising and conducting activities of European cooperation societies. An SCE is a legislative structure created to achieve goals typical for cooperatives...

Authors highlight the importance of human management nowadays. There were observed two crucial changes. Firstly, bureaucratic system was replaced with "high performance system". Secondly, virtualization of work place. New typology of organization is derived from these major changes. As a...

South-East Asia is economically the fastest developing region of the world also in terms of knowledge-based economy. In the article the authors present the results of comparative studies of the most important economies of the region, as well as, their strong and weak sides.