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Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers’ Demands (Vol. 12), Anna Ujwary-Gil, Adam Nalepka Jan 2013

Business And Non-Profit Organizations Facing Increased Competition And Growing Customers’ Demands (Vol. 12), Anna Ujwary-Gil, Adam Nalepka

Anna Ujwary-Gil

Commercial and non-commercial organizations are involved in a continuous process of change and adaptability. Hence, there are various concepts accompanying the unending flow of organizational problems presenting themselves. One of these, is a concept developed within the analytical framework of business negotiations useful in the analysis of different types of negotiations. Another is the use of information management systems for decision-making particularly in the context of small and medium sized enterprises. The first section contains a discussion on the functioning of virtual teams and associated management issues, while also introducing the concept of socially responsible innovation and the impact of …


Knowledge, Participation And Waste Management – Selected Problems. Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2013

Knowledge, Participation And Waste Management – Selected Problems. Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

Management is an interdisciplinary field of science covering numerous concepts and approaches to analyzing organizational problems. Issue 4 of JEMI contains at least three such concepts, which we would like to present to our readers. These are: knowledge management, determining company ability to absorb advanced technologies; participation management and waste management. Beside the above-mentioned concepts, the volume also includes the issues of managers’ behavior in the context of implemented projects and interaction orientation, understood as the ability of a company to interact with its clients and to gather information. The first article is a very good example of a case …


Knowledge Assessment Methodology – Results For Poland, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2013

Knowledge Assessment Methodology – Results For Poland, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

The object of this paper is to present the latest findings relating to the Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM), with particular regard to Poland, which the author has compared to other countries in Europe and Central Asia (taken as one grouping of countries according to region). The four main pillars of this tool for elementary analysis in the area are, eg. the economic and institutional regime, education, innovation and ICT. The article begins by presenting evidence of an emerging knowledge-based economy, its importance and issues concerning its definition. Subsequently the author discussed the key elements of KAM in order to present …


Entrepreneurial Orientation And Opportunities. Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Anna Ujwary-Gil Jan 2013

Entrepreneurial Orientation And Opportunities. Journal Of Entrepreneurship, Management And Innovation, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

The importance and influence of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) on the behavior of enterprises, their results and effectiveness, is one of fundamental areas of interest of scientists, as well as single- and multi-dimensionality of this concept. Other constructs, such as entrepreneurial intentions, activities and opportunities seem to be derivatives of entrepreneurial orientation, without which none of these elements could appear in this area of studies. Issue 3 of JEMI, which we are proud to offer to our readers, is a collection of interesting articles, both from scientific and practical point of view, on entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial intentions and opportunities offered by …


A Three-Dimensional Model Of Identifying Barriers To Knowledge Management, Anna Ujwary-Gil Dec 2012

A Three-Dimensional Model Of Identifying Barriers To Knowledge Management, Anna Ujwary-Gil

Anna Ujwary-Gil

This article is a continuation of the author’s discussion concerning the identification and classification of barriers to knowledge management, which appeared in 2012 (see References). The author divides these barriers into three interrelated dimensions: a) the prevalence of these barriers (exceeding the classical triad of: individual, organizational, and inter-organizational levels), b) the stages of knowledge management processes, and c) the types of barriers. The three-dimensional model presented is based on the field of morphology utilized in the theory of combinations. This paper is conceptual in nature, and is aimed at identifying barriers to knowledge management, and new areas of research. …