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    Model przyczynowy zjawiska asymetrii informacji w informatycznym przedsięwzięciu wdrożeniowym

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    The author’s research to date has shown that information asymmetry constitutes a critical success factor both for the client and the supplier in IT information projects. Literature confirms that the phenomenon of information asymmetry between the client and the supplier in IT projects is hard to measure due to problems in accessing credible information and the lack of established methods. Hence, it is important to study the phenomenon of information asymmetry and to understand the conditioning that affects it. The aim of the article is to present a model describing the causes of information asymmetry in IT implementation projects completed through outsourcing. The author studies information asymmetry in the project life cycle of ERP, CRM, BI and DM systems. The conclusions may be interesting both for economic practitioners and for theoreticians of business economics.Dotychczasowe badania autora wykazały, iż asymetria informacji stanowi krytyczny czynnik sukcesu zarówno dla klienta, jak i dostawców wśród informatycznych przedsięwzięć wdrożeniowych. Literatura przedmiotu potwierdza, że zjawisko asymetrii informacji pomiędzy dostawcą a odbiorcą w projektach informatycznych jest trudno mierzalne z powodu ograniczonego dostępu do wiarygodnych informacji i braku opracowanych metod. Dlatego istotne jest poznanie zjawiska asymetrii informacji w projektach informatycznych oraz zrozumienie uwarunkowań wpływających na to zjawisko. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie modelu opisującego przyczyny występowania zjawiska asymetrii informacji wśród informatycznych przedsięwzięć wdrożeniowych realizowanych w oparciu o outsourcing. Autor bada asymetrię informacji w cyklu życia projektu wśród systemów klasy ERP, CRM, BI oraz DMS. Konkluzje mogą być interesujące i dla praktyków gospodarczych, i dla teoretyków informatyki ekonomicznej

    The Soft Budget Constraint. An introductory study to volume IV of the Life’s Work series

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    The author’s ideas on the soft budget constraint (SBC) were first expressed in 1976. Much progress has been made in understanding the problem over the ensuing four decades. The study takes issue with those who confine the concept to the process of bailing out loss-making socialist firms. It shows how the syndrome can appear in various organizations and forms in many spheres of the economy and points to the various means available for financial rescue. Single bailouts do not as such generate the SBC syndrome. It develops where the SBC becomes built into expectations. Special heed is paid to features generated by the syndrome in rescuer and rescuee organizations. The study reports on the spread of the syndrome in various periods of the socialist and the capitalist system, in various sectors. The author expresses his views on normative questions and on therapies against the harmful effects. He deals first with actual practice, then places the theory of the SBC in the sphere of ideas and models, showing how it relates to other theoretical trends, including institutional and behavioural economics and theories of moral hazard and inconsistency in time. He shows how far the intellectual apparatus of the SBC has spread in theoretical literature and where it has reached in the process of “canonization” by the economics profession. Finally, he reviews the main research tasks ahead

    Institutional Change and Firm Creation in East-Central Europe: An Embedded Politics Approach

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    A central debate about the transformation of post-communists countries is how the process of institution building impacts firm restructuring and creation. This debate has largely been dominated by approaches that emphasize either the depoliticization of institutional designs or the determining impact of pre-existing social structures. These views, however, have serious problems explaining one of the key comparative developments in East-Central Europe – the strong economic growth in Poland and the demise of the Czech Republic in the 1990s. This paper explains these differences by offering an alternative, embedded politics approach that views firm and institutional creation as intertwined experiments. Czech attempts to implant a depoliticized model of reform impeded the necessary reorganization of socio-political networks, in which firms are embedded. Poland facilitated institutional experiments not only in the ways it promoted negotiated solutions to restructuring, but also in the ways it empowered sub-national governments. The study utilizes data on manufacturing networks, privatization, bankruptcy, and regional government reforms collected over the past six years.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39976/3/wp590.pd

    Pro-ecological Restructuring of Companies

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    "This book presents a practical approach to pro-environmental challenges faced by companies in the process of restructuring. It contains a broad variety of case studies from different economic sectors, and small and large businesses, in four European countries: Ukraine, Romania, Germany and Poland. The studies are the results of surveys of companies that had either already restructured or were planning to, and reveal both the weaknesses and strengths in these practices. The book is divided into three parts: explorations of how political and legal factors are embedded in a company’s strategy and how they influence the company’s behaviour; analyses of companies’ activities on matching restructuring with ecology; and approaches to ecoinnovations within the companies. The case studies throughout the book show that the restructuring of a company is an opportunity for the implementation of proecological action and “green” business models. The authors trust that the experiences and good practices of others will prove valuable both for future businessmen (i.e. students), but also for academics and representatives of local government, central environmental agencies, owners and managers of enterprises to be restructured.

    Flexibility in contracting

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    Organisational consciousness in public safety management system

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    Organisational consciousness is one of the primary determinants driving organisational development. It is the organisation’s capacity for assessment of its operation level, quest for uniformity and organisational identity. This consciousness revolves around objectives of actions and integrates collective efforts, thereby determining collaboration. Therefore, it performs a vital role in the public safety management system (PSMS), where efficiency of operations may be achieved only as a result of joint actions. In essence, this was an imperative to carry out research aimed at analysing the significance of organisational consciousness in the public safety management system. During enquiries the authors gave insight into the concepts of organisational consciousness and organisational development as well as characterizing the PSMS in the context of organisational consciousness. Bearing in mind a comprehensive and adaptive approach to each analysed situation in an individual manner the relevance of organisational consciousness in public safety management systems was found. Furthermore it was testified that organisational consciousness in the PSMS affects three areas, namely: enhances involvement in accomplishment of objectives set, strengthens inter-organisational collaboration and fosters innovative solutions

    Risk Management for the Future

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    A large part of academic literature, business literature as well as practices in real life are resting on the assumption that uncertainty and risk does not exist. We all know that this is not true, yet, a whole variety of methods, tools and practices are not attuned to the fact that the future is uncertain and that risks are all around us. However, despite risk management entering the agenda some decades ago, it has introduced risks on its own as illustrated by the financial crisis. Here is a book that goes beyond risk management as it is today and tries to discuss what needs to be improved further. The book also offers some cases

    Rational and relational bases of public managers’ new profiles in the context of trust research

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    Competencies are a set of distinctive resources and opportunities. They relate to specific capabilities of management and to performance of management methods. In the catalogue of existing managerial competencies, an increasingly important role is played by trust. The deep insight in this field of literature gives grounds for the inference that trust is rather a means to achieve public organisations’ goals, than being the end in itself. Therefore in this article we have assumed, that contemporary competencies, to a large degree, rely on trust which is rationally and relationally rooted. The main aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate components of trust with reference to the competences of public managers mirrored in their new profiles. To achieve the goal of the article, publications of the field of organisational studies and public management which aim to show the importance of creating trust within an organisation were reviewed to identify main managerial competences analysed in the context of public trust as an important factor of improving public organisations. Moreover, the results of a survey with 93 respondents carried out in 2014 in 8 units of local public administration from the Malopolska Region were used. As a result the main components of trust in new public managers’ profiles have been identified and assessed
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