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Knowledge Management in Social Work: Management Support, Incentives, Knowledge Implementation, and Employee Empowerment
No full textIn this article, we build on the current research about knowledge management in social work settings to demonstrate that knowledge management has the potential to enable social work organizations to influence public policies and improve the quality of their services. By increasing awareness and information about knowledge management in the field of social work, our goal is to examine a direct positive relationship between management support and incentives and knowledge implementation. In addition, as we wanted to explore the moderating effect of employee empowerment on knowledge implementation, we define and test several hypotheses in order to discover how management support, incentives and employee empowerment impact knowledge implementation in social work settings. We use moderation regression to test our hypotheses with a sample of 98 managers and employees of social work organizations in Slovenia who completed a questionnaire specifically prepared for the study. The study results support the existence of a significant and positive relationship between management support and incentives with knowledge implementation. Employee empowerment also acts as a moderator in the relationship between incentives and knowledge implementation, however, the interaction term is negative. In any case, the highest levels of knowledge implementation occur when employee empowerment is high as well. In the conclusion of the paper, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications derived from the research study
Formal and Informal Institutions, and FDI Flows: A Review of the Empirical Literature and Propositions for Further Research
No full textThe aim of this paper is to firstly, summarize the empirical literature dealing with the relationship between formal and informal institutions on one side and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the other, and secondly, to propose a possible path for further progress in the field. The main proposition of the paper is that when formulating hypotheses, the empirical research on the institutions-FDI nexus should rely (to a greater extent) on the theories from institutional economics, more specifically on the theory of institutional stickiness (Boettke et al., 2008) and the hierarchy of institutions (Williamson, 2000), and the theory of coevolution of culture (informal institutions) and formal institutions (Bisin and Verdier, 2017). Within the framework of these theories, the paper provides four suggestions as regards the manner in which further progress in the empirical research on the institutions-FDI nexus can be achieved
Pomen notranje komunikacije za učinkovitost delavskega soupravljanja
No full textThe article focuses on worker representative cooperation in management bodies and works councils in selected Slovenian companies, their mutual communication and degree of management inclusion activity in such processes. Using a qualitative research approach and semi-structured interviews in 19 selected companies with CEO or board members, worker representatives in the supervisory boards and works council members, we identified stakeholder internal communication best practice and found that well-considered, comprehensive, timely and accurate internal communication in line with company culture is not only essential for ensuring sufficient information but also for maintaining and improving constructive relationships for the efficient implementation of worker co-determination
Revisiting the Cooperation Matrix for Classifying Cases of Port Cooperation — Case Study: Northern Adriatic Ports
No full textThe maritime industry has witnessed transformational changes due to the structural developments in the competitive landscape among maritime stakeholders. These trends lead to cooperation between ports, particularly those sharing common hinterland. This paper extends the existing frameworks for analysing cases of port cooperation among adjacent ports by exploring the relevance of the presence or absence of a national border, thus proposing an upgraded version of the matrix for classifying cases of port cooperation. We operationalize our theoretical findings with a case study of the North Adriatic (NAPA) ports. We conduct in-depth, semi-structured expert interviews with relevant port stakeholders in order to position the NAPA ports within the matrix, as both a group of ports and individual port-pairs
Are We Reversing the Trend in Waste Generation: Panel Data Analyses of Municipal Waste Generation in Regard to the Socio-Economic Factors in European Countries
No full textThe purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is a decline in the amounts of generated municipal waste that is influenced by the changes which cannot be attributed to the changes in the socio-economic variables and can therefore be ascribed to a changing behaviour and the effectiveness of the policies implemented with the aim of preventing generation of waste. The analyses in this paper cover the data of 30 European countries in the period 2002–2015. The method applied is the panel data analysis of the data on seven socio-economic variables by using both the fixed-effect and the random-effects models. The results of our research show that if we control the model for the socio-economic variables, a decline in the amounts of generated municipal waste can be observed in the period 2011–2015, indicating certain effectiveness of the implemented policies on waste prevention in Europe
Kako hierarhije deležnikov oblikujejo strateške cilje in strategije športnih klubov?
No full textThe paper addresses the problem of identifying stakeholders’ hierarchies in sport clubs and, on the case of basketball clubs, reveals how they reflect on the hierarchies of goals and on actual strategic decisions of observed organizations. The study is based on data obtained in 73 basketball clubs from four countries of South-Eastern Europe. The results show that private sponsors are the most influential stakeholders in top-quality clubs that pursue top-sports achievements and financial results more than the goals aimed at meeting the needs of local communities. In contrast, the low-quality clubs, where the greatest influence have volunteers, the local community and the state or municipal authorities, emphasize organizational growth and local community objectives at the expense of top-sports achievements and fast results
The Status Quo Bias of Students and Reframing as an Educational Intervention towards Entrepreneurial Thinking and Change Adoption
No full textThe purpose of this research study is to examine the status quo bias and reframing interventions among business students in an attempt to understand their role in the students’ entrepreneurial decision making, aiming eventually to find out whether we can affect students’ entrepreneurial thinking by using an educational intervention towards innovation and change adoption. Though these research topics have previously been examined separately and mostly in a non-entrepreneurial context, this research paper aims to integrate them into one laboratory experiment study in an educational context, considering business students at the university. The experimental study is conducted on a sample with more than 200 undergraduate university students in their third or fourth year of studies of the Management study program at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Overall, we find that students are significantly biased towards status quo in 7 out of 18 cases, demonstrating a moderate level of status quo bias. The results from the second part of our study evidence a strong effect of the reframing intervention on overcoming the status quo bias. In any case, the research paper adds a unique practical contribution by offering an actual entrepreneurship learning approach, as an intervention towards the innovation and change adoption among students at business schools and universities
Dinamični turistični sektor: pregled in obeti za prihodnost
No full textThis article focuses on the dynamics of entries and exits in the tourism industry from 2006 to 2018. More specifically, it compares the entry and exit rates in each subsector of the tourism industry. Compared to other sectors of the economy, the tourism industry was much more dynamic in terms of both entry and exit rates. During and after the COVID-19 crisis, when the demand for tourism services decreased, we can expect lower entry rates of new firms and on the other hand increased exit rates. Among the sub-sectors, the most dynamic activity was observed for food and beverage service activities, followed by accommodation, especially in the pre-crisis year 2007. In the period after the post Great Recession period, more dynamism was observed in sports activities and amusement and recreation activities. Simple forecasts for the future also predict that the hospitality industry will remain among the most dynamic, which unfortunately in the COVID-19 crisis means that the number of businesses leaving this industry is predicted to be quite high
Determinants of Inflation in Egypt and Mexico: An Empirical Evidence
No full textThis paper empirically examines the influencing role of internal and external factors on the inflation rate for two emerging economies, Egypt and Mexico. The price level over the long run is affected by both internal and external factors in both countries. It was also found that both fiscal and monetary policies can be used to fight inflation over the long run. Furthermore, both the US interest rate and price affect the price level with the same sign in both countries over the long run. However, over the short run while as we expect the US price affects the price in Mexico it does not have any effect on Egypt’s price
The Relationship between Business Intelligence and Analytics Use and Organizational Absorptive Capacity: Applying the DeLone & Mclean Information Systems Success Model
No full textBuilding on the DeLone and McLean Information Systems (IS) success model and the knowledge-based theory of absorptive capacity, this paper examines the role of the business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) use for enhancing a firm’s absorptive capacity for knowledge creation. We collected survey data from an online and mail-delivered survey questionnaire with 97 respondents at the organizational level in the Slovenian medium- and large-sized firms from several industries. The results from the partial least squares SEM showed that the BI&A use relates significantly to absorptive capacity enhancement, thus fostering knowledge creation. Moreover, information quality and system quality are positively linked with BI&A use at the organizational level