... of cognitive diversity, identify ways to develop good management behavior and assess the results of these practices for team viability. We recommend that public managers in contexts of cognitive diversity work to create effective workplace environments. Training programs can foster TMS capabilities and support...

... and the efficiency of RSCF systems is U-shaped, and the efficiency of RSCF systems in the high-income group is far greater than that of other income groups. Finally, the main reason for the lack of efficiency in RSCF seems to lie in management and technology. Originality/value This study divides all...

...Karmen Verle; Mirko Markič; Borut Kodrič; Annmarie Gorenc Zoran Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether there is a relationship among leadership, action, social, and personal competencies of managers in modern organizational structure types and whether a relationship exists...

... satisfaction Job involvement Perceived organisational performance Management Slovenia Performance management Human resource management The way organisations manage their human resources impact various criteria of organisational performance (Combs et al., 2006). Although intensive...

... 2003 Management Forecasting Information systems Modelling The need to effectively integrate decision making together with the knowledge representation tasks and inference procedures that model an expert’s thought process has provoked recent research efforts to integrate decision...

...Jeong Yong Ahn; Seok Ki Kim; Kyung Soo Han In the past few years, information technology has stimulated several innovations in the business and marketing fields, and advances in the technology are changing the research surrounding those fields. Recently, focusing topics in the management...

... are provided that should assist managers in this industry. Business‐to‐business (B2B) exchanges, a Web enabled market space that brings together buyers and sellers (Scully and Woods, 1999) hold the promise of efficiently managing procurement activities within various distribution channels. Through...

... for a wide range of management approaches such as benchmarking (Zairi, 1992), customer feedback (Destatnik, 1992; NIST, 2001), leadership (Crosby, 1979; Deming, 1982; Oakland, 1993), planning (Groocock, 1986; Gryna, 2001), process management (Juran and Gryna, 1988; Deming, 1982; Oakland, 1993; Shewhart, 1931...

... and providing hardware transparency based on a distributed set of independent services, such as life cycle management, directory and security. CORBA’s middleware design follows the object oriented paradigm for building its system, using smart components which can roam across network boundaries, with multi...

...Ely Laureano Paiva; Aleda V. Roth; Jaime Evaldo Fensterseifer This paper addresses, from a knowledge management perspective, the following question: How are companies choosing the information that is considered more important for the management of the manufacturing process? We analyze empirically...

...Shouhong Wang Knowledge management has recently received considerable attention in the Web‐based business community. This paper discusses the key concepts of human‐computer interaction in knowledge development, and identifies new challenges of knowledge management for Web‐based business. Based...

... and development features of an innovation transfer model. As an example, Schmitt (1988) and Baptista (1999) offer a selective review of this argument, and in Yavas (1997) it is possible to find a large number of references. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Innovation Technology Management Small‐ to medium...

... management policies as the main impellers of service innovation. Basically, services innovation literature assumes that service firms innovate (Barras, 1986; Normann, 1991) or at least develop R&D activities (Gallouj and Weinstein, 1997). Knowledge management literature reveals the increasing...

... the organizational structure change from a hierarchical to a flat form, management goals must change from being functional sub‐optimized to global‐optimization, process‐oriented measurement, and employees’ work must change from being fragmented to team‐oriented. It is important that the firm combine core business...

...Lisbeth Hedelin; Carl Martin Allwood A total of 41 top executive managers in large organizations/enterprises were interviewed about factors affecting their demands on, attitudes towards and use of, information and communication technology (ICT) when making strategic decisions in their work. Poor...

...Atul Gupta; Glen Thomas Organization learning has assumed a major role in modern management as a tool for coping with change and uncertainty. Organizations must adapt to shifting demands in an environment where chaos is common. The organizations which can make such changes and thrive are those...

...Liang‐Hsuan Chen; Shu‐Yi Liaw; Yeong Shin Chen Since a firm’s management performance can be evaluated in terms of financial ratios, efficient management using financial factors is proposed as the key element for upgrading a firm’s productivity. Investigates productivity in terms of certain...

...Chao‐Ton Su; Mu‐Chen Chen; Guang‐Chih Cheng Total quality management (TQM) has been widely brought into action to improve the business’s essence in industries. In Taiwan, the computer and its peripheral industry is becoming a real global business. Most of the companies are buying and selling goods...

...John R. Willems; Karen Ketler Reports the results of a survey of information systems managers with respect of the importance of telecommunications issues and the quality of their telecommunications training. The response of the information systems managers identified four factors: standard...

...T.S. Raghunathan; S. Subba Rao; Luis E. Solis Seeks to compare the quality management practices in three different countries: USA, India and China. For this research various constructs representing quality management practices and quality results were conceptualized. A questionnaire survey...