The purpose of this paper is two-fold. The first is to present the structure of an undergraduate course entitled “Business Policy and Strategic Management” taught at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. The second is to answer four research questions that are of interest to instructors developing and delivering similar courses. After analysing the performance of 1551 students i...

regarding to importance of strategic planning and existence critical success factors (csfs) affecting strategic planning in national iranian gas company (nigc), these cfss identifies in this research using the experiences of managers and expert of nigc planning department and the other references like books, journals and new papers. the purpose of this research is identifying csfs of strategic ...

For the last decade, Knowledge Management (KM) (Davenport & Prusak, 1998) has been positioned as a business strategy that advances knowledge as a critical resource and the capacity to integrate pieces of it across the organization as a distinguishing feature for success within the market (Grant, 1996). The strategy promotes the transfer of knowledge within organizations (Alavi & Leidner, 2001, ...

Mats Edenius is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Information and Communication Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden ([email protected]). Janet Borgerson is an Associate Professor at Stockholm University/ Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ([email protected]). Abstract IdentiŽcation, generation, transfer, storage and efŽcient integration of k...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

The purpose of this research is to study the connection between the commercialization of knowledge management practices and its contributions towards the knowledge-based development in Malaysia. Theoretical relations in this research are tested through an empirical study carried out on among public-listed organizations in the industrial products, consumer products and services industries in Mal...

With the fast developing knowledge economy, one of the major challenges facing enterprise managers is aligning knowledge management (KM) with business strategy and processes, especially after an enterprise has applied Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Since knowledge sharing (KnS) is one of the most critical steps in KM activities, it is necessary to study the effective sharing of tacit knowl...

The importance of knowledge management to business increases and there are few signs that the pace would slow down. This is due to the fact that more and more of the added value companies create is built on the tacit and explicit knowledge that individuals possess and create. The purpose of a company is, by its existence, to produce more value than individual actors operating alone. One of the ...