Knowledge management ca be seen as the pragmatic evolution of ideas in the field of organizational learning. Its main interest is the improvement of organizational capabilities on all levels of the organization through better use of the resource 'knowledge'.

This Study examines the impact of ERP Solutions on the paradigms of business and management.

This article spans the literature from organizational learning to knowledge management by indicating out the various combinations in the field. First, it provides an overview of the divergent debates in the field of organizational learning; focusing on the content , agents and proces of...

In the present contribution , the concept development of competence and capability-related research from its beginnings in the 1950s to the most recent contributions of the 1990s will be illustrated. Common themes in the different approaches will be highlighted and their idiosyncratic...

The last years have seen the idea of Managing Diversity (MD) travelling from the U.S. to Europe and gaining popularity with a growing number of European companies. In this paper, we look at the ways in which the 38 largest French and German companies have taken up elements of the MD discourse...

To obtain the maximum benefits from diversification, financial theory suggests that investors should invest internationally because of the larger potential for risk reduction stemming, from the lower correlation existing between assets of different countries. The question that we raise in this...

Recent fashion phenomena in the field of management have received growing attention by scholars and management practitioners alike. Much of the existing management fashion literature however operates without providing a clear conceptual and theoritical fonction. It tends to build on common-sense...

There are many problems related to design a networks. Among them, the message routing problem plays a determinant role in the optimization of network performance. Much of the motivation of this work comes from this problem which is shown to belong to the lass of nonlinear convex multicomodity...

This acticle summerizes research findings published on the advertising in China by leading Anglo-Saxon marketing and management journals over the past ten years. Its goal is to highlight the implications of these findings for the marketing personnel of foreign firms wishing to market and...

The objective of operations on futures markets may be either hedging or speculation. In this paper, we wish to give a desciption of futures markets with two groups of operators with heterogeneous expectations: hedgers-speculators, and pure speculators. The existence of carry-over costs is taken...