In the era of knowledge economy, universities are stressed as important agents fostering and promoting development processes at local as well as regional and national levels. At both policy documents determining development of Zemgale and the strategy of university a close cooperation and...

Systemic management of sport clubs is challenging task with interesting research potential. Its key difficulty insists in problematic evaluation of overall performance of sport organization and explicit quantification of resultant value for stakeholders. Consequently, numerous sport clubs serve...

For a long time, formalized knowledge management was in fact only reserved for large companies. Meanwhile, increase in market competition and the dynamic changes in companies' external environment in recent years have made also small and medium enterprises attach great importance to the issues...

The paper presents relationships between market orientation (MO), knowledge management (KM) and growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Two basic questions are stated for this study: (1) what are the relationships between those two concepts, KM and MO, and growth of...

The paper presents the role of managing knowledge and information in the process of customer needs identification. In conditions of knowledge economy knowledge and information determines competitive advantage, where knowledge on consumer and their requirements and needs is key. Findings...

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...

The article raises the issue of intellectual capital. Owing to the fact that this is a relatively new notion, among economists and practitioners of management there is no consistency with regard to the essence and the role of this capital in an organization. It therefore contributes to formation...

In today business, firms are riding on the wave of globalization to enhance competitiveness through business networking or corporate collaboration. Firms inevitably need to share knowledge among different business partners, in particular, during new product development (NPD). However, knowledge...

Libraries should consider the ways of developing their services around users' workplace in order to reach their users and offer the most appropriate services according to the notion - libraries are where users need them. In academic institutions the storage of libraries' resources is not enough...

This paper describes the results of qualitative research regarding the phenomenon of "product package second life" (a situation when consumer uses package after original product has been used, including buying product specially to have attractive package). Such package usage is compatible with...