Im Politikfeld der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) wird die Frage nach deren Wirksamkeit umfänglich diskutiert. Doch trotz zahlreicher Kontroll- und Evaluierungsformate, die zu Lernprozessen und damit zu einer Steigerung der Wirksamkeit führen sollen, ist diese Steigerung häufig nicht...

The range of up-to-date means to achieve success in business is rather extensive. The question is how to use them effectively taking into consideration conceptual changes in modern business strategies. Characteristics of development of the firm as a learning organization and crea-tion of...

Purpose: This paper deals with the undergraduate "Industrial Engineering and Management" curriculum. The research's purpose was to examine the in-depth coverage of teaching/learning in the combined field of industrial engineering and management, as opposed to the extent of widthwise...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 (Mannheim Innovation Panel), we pair firms applying knowledge management with twin firms with...

Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one...

The concept of knowledge has gained in interest since industrialized economics have induced a shift in importance from labor, capital and natural resources towards intellectual resources. This study investigates how the management of knowledge influences the innovation performance of a firm....