Has Knowledge Management (KM) an identity and a future? The process of differentiating KM both as a business practice and a discipline is in a reflexive situation: it is happening amidst a major transformation of established criteria for the social recognition of a knowledge field. Awareness of this fact by stakeholders in the systematic and sustainable evolution of KM may lead to a conscious m...

A generalised strategy for modelling and integration of an overall system is developed for the purpose of detailed economic analysis of industrial systems. The process industries today are facing severe challenges that lye in improvement in economic competitiveness, achieving a variety of the highest quality, the lowest cost and environmentally benign products from limited supply of low quality...

According to expected utility theory, choice is unitary by definition. For instance, a single scale mapping the objects of choice to utility or value is implicit in (indeed, formally equivalent to; see Chapter 1) a set of preferences over these objects, so long as those preferences satisfy some regularities such as transitivity. Of course, such an abstract analysis does not speak directly to th...