The Financial Activity of Businesses -- Basic Elements for the Treatment of Uncertainty -- Accountancy and Decision Techniques -- The Estimate of Economic-Financial Values by Means of the Budget -- Long Term Financial Solvency -- Short Term Financial Solvency -- Financial Analysis by Means of Ratios -- Risk Analysis -- Inference Chains in Financial Analysis -- The Effect of Fixed Costs on Profi…
Application domains -- Complexity: An Emergent Organisational Paradigm in the Knowledge Based Economy -- The Epistemology of Knowledge -- The Complexity Paradigm for a Networked Economy -- Knowledge Management and Management Learning: What Computers Can Still Do -- Supporting Technologies for Knowledge Management -- Learning and Interaction via ICT Tools for the Benefit of Knowledge Management …
Knowledge Management: Conceptual Foundations -- Knowledge Management: Conceptual Foundations, Emerging Directions -- Knowledge Management: Why Learning from the Past Is Not Enough! -- A Sensemaking Theory of Knowledge in Organizations and Its Application -- Knowledge Management: Empirical Perspectives -- Knowledge Creation in Organizations: A Multiple Study Overview -- Knowledge Acquisition and…
The Rationales Behind Innovation Policies: Dynamic Approaches -- From Economic Foundations to S&T Policy Tools: a Comparative Analysis of the Dominant Paradigms -- Systems Failure and the Case for Innovation Policy -- Technology Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy -- New Technology Procurement: Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Coordination -- Technology Policy and A-Synchronic Technologies: …
IT Auditing: An Overview and Approach -- Auditing and Complex Business Information Systems -- Generation-X Technologies and IT Auditing -- Complex Information Systems, Auditing Standards and IT Auditors -- ERP and Information Integration Issues: Perspective for Auditors -- Technology, Auditing and Cyber-Commerce -- IT Auditing and Security of Information Systems -- Information Technology Govern…
Fundamentals of Product Customization -- Product Customization: Theoretical Basics -- Mass Customization and Complexity -- A Customers’ Needs Model for Mass Customization -- An IT Infrastructure for Effective and Efficient Product Customization -- Customer Oriented Interaction Systems -- A Multi-agent System for Coping with Variety Induced Complexity -- Implementation Scenarios of the Informa…
On Network Industries -- Business Webs: Decomposable, Modular Organisations -- Business Web Growth Cases -- Towards a Theory of Business Web Growth -- Conclusion.Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product …
FMEC: Overview and Interpretation -- Policies -- Practical Contract Storage, Checking, and Enforcement for Business Process Automation -- Legitimacy Checking in Communicative Workflow Design -- CANDID Specification of Commercial and Financial Contracts: A Formal Semantics Approach to Knowledge Representation, Part I: Syntax & Formal Semantics of CANDID -- CANDID Specification of Commercial and …
Current Problems and Requirements -- Business Management Background -- Business Management Instruments -- Information Technology Instruments -- Components of the SAP Solution -- Case Studies -- Conclusion.In order to make strategy happen there is a need for powerful management information systems. SAP focuses on the application of modern business administration concepts, e.g. Value Based Manage…
Foundation -- Infrastructure -- Integration Services -- Knowledge Services -- Access Services -- Conclusion.Success of an organization is increasingly dependent on its capability to create an environment to improve the productivity of knowledge work. This book focuses on the concepts, models and technologies that are used to design and implement such an environment. It develops the vision of a …