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Security and Knowledge Management: Solutions Through Analogies?
- - Timo
Glaser and Frank Pallas
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Security Management and Knowledge Management show a couple
of intriguing similarities. This paper identifies some of
these similarities and highlights abstract problems arising
from them in both areas. Those analogies motivate to look
for possibilities to transfer solutions from one area to
another.
©
2008 Timo Glasser and Frank Pallas. All Rights Reserved.
The
Balanced Scorecard as a Knowledge Management Tool: A French
Experience in a Semi-Public Insurance Company - - Gregory
Wegmann
This
paper presents the Balanced Scorecard, a strategic control
tool, which is quite famous globally. Its principle objective
is to articulate the planning and control decisions. The
Strategic Control and the Agency Theories constitute the
foundation of this tool. But, in Northern Europe, some specific
Balanced Scorecards have been designed to work within the
Knowledge Management Theory framework, which needs a sophisticated
information system support. Using two theoretical backgroundsthe
Strategic Control approach and Knowledge Management Theorythe
relevance of the Balanced Scorecard is analyzed. More particularly,
the French situation is presented; to begin with, the French
managers believe that the Balanced Scorecard is a relevant
management instrument to drive the firm's objectives. The
paper then takes a closer look at the Balanced Scorecard
of a semi-public French insurance company.
©
2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
An
Explanation of Individual Knowledge and Behavior Based on
Empirical Substrata - - Liang
Zhao and Xian-Chen Zhu
Using
the recent findings from the modern empirical disciplines,
mainly building on Hayek's thoughts, the paper gives a definition
of knowledge in accord with the Austrian School's tradition.
Based on the definition, it sums up three behavioral assumptions
and offers a framework for explaining individual behavior
and expounds ideas on hierarchical knowledge and its change
in real situations. In this way, the paper shows that the
Austrian School can be greatly advanced with the help of
modern empirical findings.
©
2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
Institutional
Repositories: Preserving the Intellectual Capital of Management
Institutions - - Gayatri
Doctor and Smitha Ramachandran
Contemporary
management relies on many management theories of which special
mention has to be made of the behavioral and systems approach.
In this era of globalization and competition, management
institutions are emphasizing the systems approach and documentation
is done with the help of modern technology. The demand for
good quality management professional is ever growing. Business
schools or management institutions must now operate in a
global network, to keep up with the ever growing demand
for quality professionals in the competitive world. Moreover,
with the mushrooming of business schools across the country,
there is a need for evaluating these institutions. This
paper discusses the need for institutional repositories
in management institutions to preserve the intellectual
assets.
©
2008 The Icfai University Press. All Rights Reserved.
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