BibSonomy publications for /tag/managementSun Sep 07 13:21:03 CEST 2008FrankfurtWettbewerbsvorteile. Spitzenleistungen erreichen und behaupten.6. Auflage688Wettbewerbsvorteile. Spitzenleistungen erreichen und behaupten.2000Unternehmensstrategie management Wettbewerb Während Wettbewerbsstrategie die Grundlagen für eine umfassende Analyse der Wettbewerbssituation eines Unternehmens schuf, rundet Wettbewerbsvorteile dieses erfolgreiche Konzept praxisnah ab. Porter zeigt, wie sich Unternehmen in ihrer Branche durch Differenzierung, Schwerpunktstrategien oder Kostenführerschaft einen Vorsprung vor der Konkurrenz verschaffen und dauerhaft behaupten können. Sun Sep 07 13:14:34 CEST 2008Stuttgart275Shareholder Value1995management bwl Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Technovation59-67Technological incubators and the social construction of innovation networks: an Israeli case study252005incubators; capital; Technological networks; management Innovation Social Based on a field study at a technological incubator affiliated with a leading Israeli university, this paper focuses on the construction and maintenance of informal networks of innovation, composed of entrepreneurs within the incubator, Technion staff and industry. A linear model of the development of emergent technology is set aside, while a cyclical model based on social networks is suggested. A wide array of exchange relationships (formal and informal), ranging from the use of library and laboratory services to an extensive and ongoing barter exchange of knowledge, know-how, and even shared practice is presented and discussed.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Technovation159-67Technological incubators and the social construction of innovation networks: an Israeli case study252005/1capital; Innovation management incubators; networks; Technological Social Based on a field study at a technological incubator affiliated with a leading Israeli university, this paper focuses on the construction and maintenance of informal networks of innovation, composed of entrepreneurs within the incubator, Technion staff and industry. A linear model of the development of emergent technology is set aside, while a cyclical model based on social networks is suggested. A wide array of exchange relationships (formal and informal), ranging from the use of library and laboratory services to an extensive and ongoing barter exchange of knowledge, know-how, and even shared practice is presented and discussed.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Tourism Management203–216The evolution and transformation of a tourism destination network: the Waitomo Caves, New Zealan242003Strategy; Destinations; relationships; Interorganisational Networks; Management This paper examines the process of tourism destination evolution and transformation. The focus is on how the relationships between organisations can act as a self-organising mechanism for the destination, with fluidity and change being a critical component in this process. This paper uses network theory to express these dynamics, and it emphasises structural features of architectural density and centrality. Most particularly, the network approach illustrates how groupings of small firms within interdependent systems can be self-governing, and show how this process assists the destination in building tacit knowledge for competitive advantage that resides in the network structure. The case context for this illustration is an icon tourism destination in New Zealand, the Waitomo Caves. This tourism destination has undergone significant transformation over the last 15 years, from its single Glowworm Cave attraction to an interdependent network involving underground adventure caving activities. Because of this transformation, it provides a distinctive context to explore these fluid network processes. r 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Tourism Management61356-1363Customer relationship management in small-medium enterprises: The case of Turkish tourism industry272006/12sector; (CRM); Customer analysis SMEs; Factor management Tourism relationship In this study, the factors influencing the implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) at small and medium-sized tourism enterprises in Cappadocia were analyzed. The findings of the research indicate that communication-distribution infrastructure, business dynamics, customer relations and innovation-quality factors affect CRM. Business dynamics plays an especially critical role in customer relations. It was also determined that the most important barriers to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector are inadequate supporting budgets, lack of senior management commitment to CRM and poor communication.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Continental Shelf Research18-191999-2019The Baltic Basin Case Study--towards a sustainable Baltic Europe212001/12development; Ecosystem Sustainable Sea; management Baltic Four watersheds, each characterized by a major resource use were selected for the study: The Vistula River in Poland--agriculture; the Dalalven River in Sweden--forestry; the Archipelago Sea in Sweden, Finland, Estonia--tourism; and the Lake Peipsi in Estonia/Russia--fisheries/agriculture. The main objective was to examine the reactions of particular ecosystems within the Baltic Sea drainage area, and to assess sustainability conditions on the regional level.The degree of sustainability and impact on the Baltic Sea were investigated through workshops and seminars in the areas. Overviews of environmental and socio-economic conditions were succinctly summarized in commissioned papers. Interventions by and discussions with scholars, sector experts, administrators and stakeholders of the various sites laid the foundation for conceptualizing the interaction of natural and human forces for each case. The project was able to draw quite a number of conclusions, summarized as the following lessons learnt.In the Vistula Region, nutrient emissions have levelled off but shortage of freshwater is critical. Forestry in the Dalalven watershed is largely environmental-friendly, except for fragmentation of the landscape and its negative impact on biodiversity. In the Archipelago area a former low-energy community has been replaced by a leisure time society. Different types of tourism is developing, but despite this variety, an improved integration of ecological properties with socio-economic patterns is required in order to build a sustainable, living Archipelago. The lake Peipsi basin and the surrounding area suffer both from problems of resource management and economic backwardness. Parts of the local economy has lost access to the one time large Soviet market, although the Estonian side has apparently benefited from present economic growth. To cope with the division of the lake, a regime for trans-national management is unfolding. It is based on both informal and, to an increasing extent, agreed professional contacts.Networks of engaged people were in all sites a resource for and promoter of the sustainability path. In order to succeed and to maintain the zeal, they need strong institutional support and common goals. Public programmes in the Baltic, ie. the work of the Helsinki Commission and Baltic Agenda 21, have developed instruments to enhance sustainability beneficial for the management of these watersheds. But critical tasks remain to be done in developing a shared understanding of ways to improve management of ecosystems with social factors.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Management Accounting Research2141-170Intra-organisational influences in procurement networks controls: The impacts of information technology172006/6Management management e-Procurement; Technology; control; Supplier This study is motivated out of a two-fold concern for how intra-organisational influences generally, and information technology specifically, impact upon control mechanisms in procurement networks. Utilising actor-network theory, the study examines two relational dimensions of procurement networks within actor-network space: inter-organisational relations between buyers and suppliers that comprise the procurement network and intra-organisational relations among actors within buyer organisations in particular. In doing so, the study addresses the inadequate consideration of intra-organisational influences in the literature examining the management control of networks. In addition, the study highlights the fluidity of inter-organisational control mixes, contrasting with prevailing notions of 'fit' between control mechanisms and a given transactional setting. Information technology is specifically focused upon because it increasingly mediates inter-organisational collaboration, yet its consequences are unclear and the extant literature in the area is formative. Thus, the study also contributes to extant understandings of the control effects of information technology within procurement networks.Sun Aug 31 18:03:07 CEST 2008Tourism Management2261-275The management of emotion in collaborative tourism research settings262005/4Emotion management; Learning Destination Collaborative networks; management research; organisations; Knowledge Increasingly, the management and future planning of a tourist destination is underpinned by research emerging from collaborative research undertakings, yet little is known of the ways in which the processes underlying these research settings facilitate or impair eventual project outcomes. While network theories of knowledge management acknowledge social relations as central to the possibility of learning, and organisational psychology recognises the role of affect in individual and group processes, the two have not been considered conjointly in attempts to understand the dynamics of collaborative research settings. The results of a 3-year qualitative study of a collaborative tourism research project show that there are five dominant factors that would influence research outcomes. These factors relate to communication, individual cognition, social contingencies, affect, and values. A model depicting the interrelatedness of these factors is presented in order to provide a platform from which to understand the dynamic processes inherent in a collaborative research setting.Wed Aug 13 11:00:11 CEST 2008Information nutzbar machen156--162Knowledge Management from the User's Perpective2006Knowledge Usability Management English _Diplomathesis Tagging Sun Aug 10 19:03:37 CEST 2008Ontologies: A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems777--822Engineering a Development Platform for Ontology-Enhanced Knowledge Applications2007ontology management engineering platform knowledge Babylon Knowledge Explorer (BKE) is an integrated suite of tools and information sources being developed in GlaxoSmithKline’sSat Aug 09 14:39:05 CEST 2008Vienna (Austria)Proceedings of PAKM 20041-10The KMDL Knowledge Management Approach: Integrating Knowledge Conversions, Business Process Modeling, Skill Management and Knowledge Management Systems 2004myown knowledge management kmdl Fri Aug 08 20:04:50 CEST 2008Vienna (Austria)Proceedings of PAKM 2004239-250Towards a systematic approach for capturing Knowledge-intensive Business Processes 2004knowledge myown management Thu Aug 07 12:42:13 CEST 2008International Journal of Project Management2213--220Project management information systems: An empirical study of their impact on project managers and project successJOURNAL262008impacts; system; management IS Project PMIS; success; success information manager; Thu Aug 07 12:37:27 CEST 2008Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on287-94When knowledge is the critical resource, knowledge management is the critical task36May 1989engineering, operations knowledge management, management managementengineering Thu Aug 07 12:37:27 CEST 2008System Sciences, 2000. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on 11 pp. vol.1-Limits of IT-driven knowledge management initiatives for interactive innovation processes: towards a community-based approach4-7 Jan. 2000IT-driven innovation management knowledge deductive approach, information community-based interactive initiatives, processes systems IT-based tools, databases, Mon Jul 28 12:11:45 CEST 2008eLearning PapersJuly91-7On the way towards Personal Learning Environments: Seven crucial aspects92008Environment, Social Personal Software, Management PLE, System, Virtual LMS Learning Die Praxis des Lernens und Lehrens ist nicht vorbestimmt, steht aber immer im Bezug zu den im Prozess verwendeten Werkzeugen und Systemen. Die Entwicklung und der zunehmende Erfolg sozialer Software-Anwendungen, wie Weblogs, Wikis und so genannter Pers�nlicher Lernumgebungen (PLE) ver�ndert, erm�glicht und fordert das Lernen mit Hilfe des Internets. Den PLE ist, vor allem im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Lernmanagementsystemen (LMS), bedeutende Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet worden, und sie sind in Begriff, das Paradigma von Lernen und Lehren zu ver�ndern. Diese Arbeit soll zu einem besseren Verst�ndnis der Konzepte, die den beiden Ans�tzen zu Grunde liegen, beitragen und andererseits die Folgen und Herausforderungen der PLE und ihrer zunehmenden Nutzung f�r das Lernen unterstreichen. Wir haben sieben Aspekte identifiziert, in denen diese Ver�nderungen am auff�lligsten und/oder wichtigsten sind. Zusammengefasst f�hrt das Lernen in PLE zu Ver�nderungen hinsichtlich: (1) der Rolle der Lerner als aktive, selbstgesteuerte Sch�pfer von Inhalten, (2) der Personalisierung mit Unterst�tzung und Daten von Gemeinschaftsmitgliedern, (3) den Lerninhalten als grenzenlosem �Basar�, (4) der wichtigen Rolle der sozialen Einbindung, (5) des Besitzes der Lernerdaten, (6) der Bedeutung des selbst organisierten Lernens f�r die Kultur der Bildungseinrichtungen und �organisationen und (7) der technologischen Aspekte der Nutzung von Social-Software-Tools und der Zusammenf�hrung vielfacher Quellen. Die gro�e Anzahl von Tools zur Unterst�tzung der Zusammenarbeit �ber das Internet zeugt davon, dass PLE und Social-Software-Tools kein Strohfeuer sind, sondern zu einer neuen Auffassung vom Lernen f�hren und als Ma�stab f�r nachhaltige Kompetenzentwicklung dienen k�nnen. Trotzdem m�ssen die bestehenden Ans�tze und Ideen f�r PLE weiter entwickelt und ausgearbeitet werden. In der Debatte �ber die damit zusammenh�ngenden �berg�nge von LMS zu PLE und ihre Herausforderungen, k�nnte diese Arbeit Lernern, Lehrkr�ften und Bildungseinrichtungen als Grundlage f�r ihre Entscheidungen bez�glich des technologischen Konzepts von PLE auf allgemeiner Ebene oder unter Ber�cksichtigung ihrer p�dagogischen Auswirkungen dienen.Mon Jul 28 11:02:49 CEST 2008BuR - Business Researchpdf-file with fulltext155-76The Risk Management of Minimum Return Guarantees12008risk economics research return management business guarantees finance Contracts paying a guaranteed minimum rate of return and a fraction of a positive excess rate, which is specified relative to a benchmark portfolio, are closely related to unit-linked life-insurance products and can be considered as alternatives to direct investment in the underlying benchmark. They contain an embedded power option, and the key issue is the tractable and realistic hedging of this option, in order to rigorously justify valuation by arbitrage arguments and prevent the guarantees from becoming uncontrollable liabilities to the issuer. We show how to determine the contract parameters conservatively and implement robust risk-management strategies.Wed Jul 23 18:57:13 CEST 2008The path towards Semantic Email: Summary and Outlook2008outlook deri conceptual social lang:en smail add-in desktop scerri conversation for:nepomuk semanta information simon nuig act personal semantic framework email interface speech management ontology In this paper we provide a summary of work that has been pursued in the area of Semantic Email, with a particular focus on our work in the area. The aim of this paper is to provide a status quo for this topic, as well as to generate ideas and discussions that could evolve the topic and take it to new heights. We finish off by outlining future directions for evaluation, improvement as well as extension of our current technologies.managementCommunity for tag(s) management