While organizations have initiated knowledge management initiatives to systematically and methodically capture both explicit and tacit (or silent) knowledge, these initiatives have experienced mixed results. Inherent organizational idiosyncrasies have bounded the transferability and reusability...

With the global proliferation of the internet, social media, and the growth of the European Union to 27 nations, it appeared that a trend toward global cultural homogenization was underway. However, with the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007, it can be argued that this trend not only...

The paper is based on a study of the KM literature. It looks at Nonaka’s, Takeuchi’s, and Konno’s notions about knowledge creation, BA, and the SECI model as grounded in Zen Buddhism. The paper discusses Polanyi’s idea of tacit knowledge, central to the Japanese way and to the Western...

This paper is a description and analysis of found conceptualizations of tacit knowledge in the knowledge management (KM) literature. The essay’s argument is that there are several different ways of framing or understanding the nature, conceptualizations, of tacit knowledge. Because tacit...

The article briefly presents the differences of life and living in Slovenia (almost) two decades after and focuses on achieved results in political, economical and social life. The comparison shows that not all survived processes were reasonable, required and efficient. Some today are...

The objectives of this model are: "good management ensures that the model won't worsen, that we will be preventing complications that we will do our best to fix important breakdowns that we will be helping the kid get the most from the way he is (Mel Levine, 2002, p. 277)." The topics treated in...

The financial management of school principals in Slovenia is very high according to the Slovenian legislation. The school principal is usually accountable for setting the internal controls. The main thesis of paper says school management in Slovenia has no system developed to facilitate the...

Commercial banks in Bulgaria function in conditions of strong competition and quickly changing business environment, in which they should guarantee, but also meet the shareholders' expectations in terms of profitability of the invested funds. In the recent years, the negative processes in the...

Life insurance represents a special field of business that affects a country's social and economical structure up to a great extent. Due to its nature, life insurance differs from all other kinds of insurance. What is essential for all the businesses that are present in the insurance market is...