Competence management is a quite recent but important topic addressed by nowadays companies for improving their organization. With examples coming from several industrial projects, we show the difficulty of defining a consistent competence management framework, and exhibit the inconsistencies which can result from an insufficient analysis of this domain. Some guidelines are suggested in order t...

introduction: urinary incontinence (ui) is high prevalent in older women. little is known about how they manage with this chronic condition from their points of view. the aim of this study was to explore older women’s experiences of management strategies in dealing with urinary incontinence.  methods: eight community dwelling women aged 60 and over, with long term ui participated in this qualit...

introduction: urinary incontinence (ui) is high prevalent in older women. little is known about how they manage with this chronic condition from their points of view. the aim of this study was to explore older women’s experiences of management strategies in dealing with ui. methods: eight community dwelling women aged 60 and over, with long term ui participated in this qualitative study. after ...

Nowaday, the knowledge is a strategic and valuable source and this is a property. Knowledge is taken in to consideration as important competitive advantage in pioneer organization, when the Knowledge grew up as a strategic source in 21 century. So more, many of scientists of management science and organizations try to use Knowledge as a Knowledge management by establishing of new way. Some of m...

Knowledge management as a field continues to receive resounding interest from scholars. While we have made progress in many areas of knowledge management, we are yet to understand what factors contribute to employee usage of knowledge artifacts. A field study of 175 employees in a software engineering organization was conducted to understand factors that govern consumption of explicit knowledge...

This paper is about the design and implementation of a wiki-based knowledge management system for improving emergency response. Most organizations face difficult challenges in managing knowledge for emergency response, but it is crucial for response effectiveness that such challenges be overcome. Organizational members must share the knowledge needed to plan for emergencies. They also must be a...

Anshul Sheopuri Department of Information, Operations and Management Science, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. 8-154, 44 West, 4 Street New York, NY10012. [email protected] Eitan Zemel Department of Information, Operations and Management Science, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. 8-65, 44 West, 4 Street New York, NY10012. [email protected]

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In this paper we present a model for pricing credit risk protection for a limited liability non-life insurance company. The protection is typically provided by a guaranty fund. In the case of continuous monitoring, i.e., where the market values of the company’s assets and liabilities are continuously observable, and where the market values of assets and liabilities follow continuous processes, ...