IT management: The basis -- The basis of the field -- Supplying IT products and services within an architecture -- Traditional IT management: organizing demand and supply -- Task focussed and simultaneous process-focussed supply of facilities -- The demand-side: functional management (using the method BiSL) -- The supply-side: application management (using the method ASL) -- The supply-side: ex…
What is changing?- Does progress matter? -- Being successful in disruptive environments -- What is it that the successful really do? -- Can you learn disruptive Innovation? -- Go with the flow - the courage to take the plunge -- Practical aspects of creating an Innovation Cell -- Can I manage change and stability side by side? -- Why one room? -- Why autonomy? -- What do I gain? - Path of Innov…
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 …
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…
The Rationality of Consumer Decisions to Adopt and Utilize Product-Attribute Enhancements: Why Are We Lured by Product Features We Never Use? -- A Behavioral Accounting Study of Strategic Interaction in a Tax Compliance Game -- Information Distribution and Attitudes Toward Risk in an Experimental Market of Risky Assets -- Effects of Idiosyncratic Investments in Collaborative Networks: An Experi…
Perspectives and Overviews -- Vocationalised Secondary Education Revisited -- Setting the Context: An Overview of Secondary Education Reform with Particular Reference to the Asia-Pacific Region -- Promise and Performance in Vocationalised Secondary Education: Has the Baby Been Thrown Out with the Bath Water? -- Country Case Studies -- Pre-vocational Secondary Education in Botswana -- Vocational…
Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches -- Introduction: The Growth of Educational Change as a Field of Study: Understanding its Roots and Branches -- The Roots -- World War II and Schools -- Finding Keys to School Change: A 40-Year Odyssey -- Listening and Learning from the Field: Tales of Policy Implementation and Situated Pract…
Towards a Theory of School Development -- Developing the Twenty-First Century School: A Challenge to Reformers -- Reconnecting Knowledge Utilization and School Improvement: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back -- The School Effectiveness Knowledge Base as a Guide for School Improvement -- The Contemporary Context of School Improvement -- School Evaluation and Improvement: A Scandinavian View -- Qua…
and Summary -- Entrepreneurship as a competency -- Creative market insight -- The window of opportunity -- Creation of the business concept -- Entry barriers to markets -- Strategies for market entry -- The positive influence of competitors -- Entrepreneurship and business ideas in the embryonic market.Successful business ideas are not so much about talent as about a systematic approach. The Bu…
The evolution of standardisation -- The history of production systems in the automotive industry -- The case of the Mercedes Benz Production System -- The results of implementing the Mercedes-Benz Production System -- Conclusion.The introduction of the Mercedes-Benz Production System (MPS) is exemplary of a trend within the automotive industry: the creation and introduction of company-specific …