scholarly journals Creative Cities and Knowledge Management Approach to Culture-Based Urban Regeneration in Slovakia: A Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. G25-G37
Author(s):  
Mária Tajtáková ◽  
Mária Olejárová
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Post Industrial

The term "Creative City" emerged in the 90s of the 20th century reflecting the trend of transforming post-industrial cities into new creative urban centres - bases for knowledge intensive firms, highly-skilled workers and major cultural assets. The concept of culture-based urban regeneration describes a scheme where culture is purposely employed as a vehicle for an overall urban and social revitalization. The paper addresses innovative processes within culture-based urban regeneration projects in three Slovak cities - Bratislava, Zilina and Kosice - under the concept of creative city. The focus is on the implementation of a tailor-made multi-factor knowledge management model with the aim of exploring the knowledge management practices in urban development projects dealing with the adaptive re-use of industrial and cultural heritage based on the non-profit bottom-up initiatives.

Knowledge Management in Charities

2010 ◽  
pp. 641-649
Author(s):  
Kathleen E. Greenaway ◽  
David C.H. Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Volunteer Labor ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Statistics Canada ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Charities, also called voluntary-service not-forprofit organizations (VSNFP), play a vital role in modern societies by addressing needs and providing services that benefit the public. These services frequently are available from neither markets nor governments. Many charitable organizations have been created to deliver or have expanded their range or scope of services as the result of governments “devolving” or transferring services to the non-profit sector (Gunn, 2004). Therefore, it is unsurprising that charities have a significant impact economically and socially. For example, volunteer work in Argentina, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and is valued at 2.7, 21, 23, and 109 billion (US) dollars respectively (Johns Hopkins University, 2005). Volunteering translates into significant resources for non-profit organizations. For example, Statistics Canada estimates that work equivalent to 1 million fulltime jobs was provided through volunteer labor in 2004 (Statistics Canada, 2006). While charities are part of the non-profit sector, research demonstrates that charitable organizations differ from for-profit organizations in terms of their human capital management, management practices, and strategies (Bontis & Serenko, 2008). Failing to account for such differences may adversely affect theory (Orlikowski & Barley, 2001) and practice (Kilbourne & Marshall, 2005). Our key question is: What is the extent of our understanding of the role of knowledge management, both as process and system, in charitable organizations? We discuss this question by adapting the knowledge management (KM) research framework originally developed for examining KM in knowledge-based enterprises (Staples, Greenaway & McKeen 2001). Many non-profits are “knowledge-intensive” organizations (Lettieri et al 2004:17). Therefore, this research model should be transferable to non-profit organizations including charities.

ICT Adoption, Capabilities Development, and Innovation Processes in Argentina

2014 ◽  
pp. 298-321
Author(s):  
Marta Novick ◽  
Sebastian Rotondo ◽  
Gerardo Breard
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
New Information ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

The discussion on innovation and the adoption of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their impact on economic growth and development have flared up in the past few years. This debate has become increasingly relevant in emerging countries like Argentina, which, in spite of high economic growth rates in the last decade, has been facing the challenge of quality employment creation. This chapter analyzes the impact of the ICT diffusion process in Argentine companies from a firm-level employment, innovation capabilities development, and knowledge management approach. Recent findings support the linkage between different firms’ ICT adoption patterns and the development of innovation capabilities, employment dimensions, and knowledge management practices. These results provide evidence to think and develop new productive and technological policies.

Evaluating Knowledge Management Practices in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-245
Author(s):  
Fahmi Ibrahim ◽  
Diyana Najwa Ali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Brunei Darussalam ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are in knowledge intensive environments and play a central role in knowledge creation and production through research, learning, and teaching. It is important to consider that knowledge plays a vital role to HEIs and thus could benefit from established KM practices. The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the practices or implementation of knowledge management (KM) within HEIs in the context of Brunei Darussalam. It examines the importance, processes and the challenges or barriers of KM practices. The findings demonstrate that among the HEIs in Brunei that have developed KM initiatives, there are differences in the role and approaches. This verifies that KM is multifaceted concept and contextual in practice. Moreover, the findings revealed how knowledge in theory is managed and conceptualised. In conclusion, KM plays a significant role in HEIs in Brunei Darussalam with a contribution through a conceptual KMPro framework which has the potential to provide a guideline for HEIs practitioners to succeed in KM which was criticised as elusive.

scholarly journals Challenges and Benefits of Knowledge Management Practices in Electronic Government

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-277
Author(s):  
Handrie Noprisson
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Meta Analyses

Electronic government or e-government is an information and communication technology application that aims to provide more open communication between governments, citizens, businesses, and other non-profit companies. In those interaction processes, there are knowledge transfer or exchange methods that must be covered and managed to accomplish the goal of e-government application. Moreover, knowledge, rapidly evolving, is increasingly recognized as a robust strategic resource for efficiency by all types of organizations and institutions either private or public. As the recommended solution, those processes can be covered by knowledge management (KM) method. This paper directs to present insight into benefits and challenges for KM implementation in e-government. A total of five research papers have been reviewed by using a systematic literature review method mentioned Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). As a conclusion, there are five benefits and six challenges for KM implementation in e-Government.

scholarly journals Towards the development of a knowledge management practices survey for application in knowledge intensive organisations

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Steyn ◽  
M. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

Various surveys of Knowledge Management Practices (KMPs) in private firms show how an increasing awareness of Knowledge Management (KM) is a critical determinant of an organisation’s competitiveness. While private sector strategies favouring internal knowledge sharing and external knowledge protection often provide strategic advantage, public sector research organisations such as South Africa’s science councils operate in an environment where, for reasons of wider public interest, transparency is encouraged and knowledge is rendered widely accessible. Unfortunately, however, little has been done to develop rigorous measurements of KMPs in such knowledge intensive organisations (KIOs) that primarily engage in knowledge intensive service activities. To complicate matters further, the majority of studies have been inter-organisational and multi-sectoral, focusing on large organisations in the private sector. Few studies have measured perceptions of KMPs amongst employees of a single organisation and even fewer have focused on KMPs within the public sector. This paper will discuss the theoretical and methodological approach used in the development of a survey aimed at measuring employee perceptions of KMPs within the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), one of South Africa’s largest public KIOs dedicated to ‘social science research that makes a difference.’ Principal component analysis of the survey data revealed six factors or constructs applicable to the measurement of KMPs. The results validate the survey instrument and offer a contribution toward the development of a KMP measurement instrument that may be applied across other KIOs in South Africa.

Beyond Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 396-411
Author(s):  
Audrey Grace ◽  
Tom Butler
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
World Class ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

In the knowledge economy, a firm’s intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage; accordingly, the ability to learn, and to manage the learning process are key success factors for firms. The knowledge management approach to learning in organizations has achieved limited success, primarily because it has focused on knowledge as a resource rather than on learning as a people process. Many world-class organizations, such as Procter & Gamble, Cisco Systems and Deloitte Consulting, are now employing a new breed of systems known as Learning Management Systems (LMS) to foster and manage learning within their organizations1. This article reports on the deployment of an LMS by a major US multinational, CEM Corporation, and proposes a framework for understanding learning in organizations, which highlights the roles that LMS can play in today’s knowledge-intensive organizations.

DYONIPOS

2009 ◽  
pp. 314-325
Author(s):  
Josef Makolm ◽  
Silke Weiss ◽  
Doris Ipsmiller
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Applied Approach ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Semantic Linkage ◽  
Insight Into

Efficient and effective knowledge management plays an increasingly important role in knowledge intensive organizations. The research project DYONIPOS focuses on detecting the knowledge needs of knowledge workers and automatically providing this required knowledge just in time. The prototype DYONIPOS generates new knowledge out of artifacts, while avoiding additional work and violations of the knowledge worker’s privacy. The knowledge is made accessible through semantic linkage of the relevant information from existing repositories. In addition DYONIPOS creates an individual and an organizational knowledge data base to achieve the knowledge. This chapter is structured as follows: the introduction section describes the current knowledge management approach and the new approach with use of the DYONIPOS prototype. The background section addresses the relation between the applied approach and the challenge in E-Government, summarizes the aims of the research project DYONIPOS and delivers also insight into the topic knowledge management by describing and criticizing the “SECImodel” according to Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi. After this the research project DYONIPOS, the semantic and knowledge discovery technologies used are presented as well as the use case project DYONIPOS showing the results of the first and the second test and screenshots of the updated DYONIPOS application. The chapter concludes with presentation of the benefits and the technical advantages of the prototype DYONIPOS.

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