This article joins the research and development (R&D) and knowledge management literature to provide new insight into how to better manage the development of innovative new products and services. This process is still widely acknowledged to be problematic and inefficient. Fundamental to the new...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of knowledge management on business performance. First, a review of the literature has been made, in order to define the most common dimensions of knowledge management and results for subsequent measurement. The dimensions of knowledge management...

The goal of our study is to examine, how the logic of change management implementation and analysing raster of success factors helps to lay the foundation of building up knowledge management system. We led our research first of all along theoretical basis building upon technical literature. We...

Purpose – This paper aims to expose the gap between rationalist banking theory and actual practice within the Agricultural Lending Division of the Fiji Development Bank (FDB) by focusing on the inter-relationship between power and knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Data for this...

Organizational learning plays an important role for firms entering new international markets. Acquiring knowledge of a foreign market helps firms to decrease uncertainties, misunderstandings and risks, allowing them to plan and achieve project expectations more accurately. Little is known,...

The research presents the development of the knowledge value-adding model (KVAM) for quantitative performance measurement of the community of practice (CoP) of the knowledge management system (KMS) in an A/E consulting firm. The proposed KVAM combines several existing KM theories including...

Recent times have as a dominant feature "change" always and everywhere shown, with major implications for the evolution of contemporary society. Transformations and changes in the economic, political and social, are produced with an amazing speed and affect the visible organization XXI century...

The purpose of this paper is to present a critical evaluation of the implementation and development of innovation and knowledge management in the Romanian economy. As a former socialist country, Romania faced some specific difficulties in its transition from centrally controlled economy toward...

With the end of the cold war, the high level of certainty and predictability in international and national environments has been replaced with dynamic international relations. Diplomats are often called upon to deal with situations for which they cannot prepare in advance, for which they cannot...

The paper is structured in two parts: first part presents theoretical and methodological approaches concerning the advanced instruction systems by using electronic communication techniques and the second part contains applicative contributions regarding the achievement of an advanced instruction...