results a relatively strong positive correlation was found between the knowledge development approach, nutritional science, nutrition education and research, and proper solutions for individual nutritional problems and a culture of nutrition (p < 0.001). conclusions 1) effective enhancement and participation in an academic community will be important in the future of food and nutrition security...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

All firms including manufacturing firms are becoming service centered, focused on the customer. Service centered firms co-create value with their customers through the dynamic configuration of their people, processes, and systems, known collectively as organizational capabilities. The core of these capabilities is knowledge, which is underpinned by information technology. This book explores the...

A PC based system called CASH MANAGER is presented. It is a knowledge-based decision support system designed for financial managers. The system contains financial manager knowledge and management science expertise. It is designed to support decisions made by financial managers, who are not management science experts, yet desire to employ the capabilities of management science tools. CASH MANAGE...

Human capital is the main asset of many companies, whose knowledge has to be preserved and leveraged from individual to the company level, allowing continual learning and improvement. Knowledge management has various components and aspects such as socio-cultural, organizational, and technological. In this paper we address the technological aspect; more precisely we survey available software sys...

Knowledge and information spanning multiple information sources, multiple media, multiple versions and multiple communities challenge the capabilities of existing knowledge and information management infrastructures by far — primarily in terms of intellectually exploiting the stored knowledge and information. In this paper we present some semantic web technologies of the EU integrated project X...

In recent years, Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as an effective management strategy and an efficient technological solution for managing cross-functional business processes. Software industry is striving to integrate more and more functionalities in their BPM products. For this, the industry needs professionals who are equipped with BPM capabilities. However, lack of appropriate ...

We develop a differentiated productivity model of knowledge sharing in organizations that proposes that different types of knowledge have different benefits for task units. In a study of 182 sales teams in a management consulting company, we find that sharing codified knowledge in the form of electronic documents saved time during the task but did not improve work quality or signal competence t...