The paper estimates the effects of a simpler and faster criminal procedure on the duration of criminal cases and the probabilities that the defendant is charged and convicted. I exploit a criminal procedure reform in the Czech Republic as a quasi-natural experiment. The reform allowed petty offenses to be prosecuted via a simplified (fast-track) procedure. The share of cases actually prosecuted...

IT revolution and the transformation of industrial society to knowledge society globalization marked the most significant, influential and most comprehensive business trends and the emergence of the modern era. The intensive development of the Internet as a global business infrastructure has led to substantial changes in business strategy, but little attention has been devoted to developing new...

The strategic management of intellectual capital involves rethinking how the companies creates value from a knowledge-centric perspective and redesigning and orchestrating the role of staff knowledge in the firm’s strategy. This paper presents the author’s software system for facilitating decision making at a strategic level in terms of the profitability of investment in staff knowledge. This s...

Although the information systems (IS) literature often suggests that there is a need to align IS strategy with business strategy, the benefits of IS strategic alignment are difficult to determine. This paper describes a configurational model of IS strategic alignment that evaluates not only the internal consistency between IS strategy and business strategy but also contingency approaches to man...

In this paper we develop a language for representing complex qualitative preferences among problem solutions. We use ranked knowledge bases to represent prioritized goals. A basic preference description, that is a ranked knowledge base together with a preference strategy, defines a preference relation on models which represent problem solutions. Our language allows us to express nested combinat...

Strategic management is defined as the system of action programs which form sustainable competitive advantages for a corporation, its divisions and its business units in a strategic planning period. We have developed a system called Woodstrat to serve as a support system for these action program activities on both the corporate, the divisional and the business unit levels. The system is modular...

This study analyses how strategic management is integrated with budgeting in the cities using the Balanced Scorecard approach, which provides a general framework to communicate and implement strategies. The approach is useful in accomplishing the strategic objectives, measures, and targets decided by city councils. It is important to align the strategic plans of various units at the different o...

The purpose of this study is to examine structural relationships among the capabilities, processes, and performance of knowledge management, and suggest strategic directions for the successful implementation of knowledge management. To serve this purpose, the authors conducted an extensive survey of 68 knowledge management-adopting Korean firms in diverse industries and collected 215 questionna...

Most knowledge management work encourages practicing managers to pursue ever more knowledge development and sharing. There is an assumption that more knowledge always leads to greater competitive advantage and superior financial performance. Even though this may be the case, it is far from proven, and the application and use of knowledge management techniques may actually be more strategic, wit...