Efficiency of Knowledge Integration in Enterprise Systems Implementation

Recent literature has emphasized the pivotal role of knowledge integration in Enterprise Systems (ES) success. This research-in-progress paper, building upon Knowledge Based Theory of the firm (KBT), examines the efficiency of knowledge integration in the context of ES implementation and identifies the factors contributing to its enhancement. The proposed model in this paper suggests that the efficiency of knowledge integration in an ES implementation process depends upon the level of common knowledge and the level of coordination in the ES adopting organization. It further suggests that the level of common knowledge can be enhanced by proper training, improving ES users’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and business process modeling and the level of coordination can be improved by articulating a clear unified organizational goal for the ES adoption in the organization, forming a competent ES team, enhancing interdepartmental communication and the cross-functionality in the organization structure

Does Knowledge Organization Have a Paradigmatic Movement?

This paper aims to review the changes over time in the field of organization of resources to determine if the movement and progress of knowledge organization are based on/ or influenced by scientific and philosophical paradigms. These changes have been analyzed from the paradigmatic perspective toward the organization of information and knowledge organization. The method of this research is a historical overview. The review has been carried out in various texts based on Thomas Cohen’s theory. Findings show that knowledge organization movement is based on developing philosophical approaches. Also advancements in information technology have been affected by forming ontological vision of knowledge organization. Results show that knowledge organization has a paradigmatic movement. Paradigms based on philosophical approaches such as pragmatism and experientialism have greatly influenced the knowledge organization. These changes in philosophical approaches, along with the changes in the technologies used in organizing knowledge, have created paradigms in the organization of resources. The tendency to organize knowledge in the twenty-first century is the result of changing the paradigm in this area

Knowledge Management, as the Key Factor of Survival in New Competition Age

In accordance with Darwin’s theory about “Survival of the fittest”, whoever has better adapted himself to circumstances, will remain and continue the life, and vice versa, whoever can not do that, will die. If we consider organization as a biological organism, organization is essentially a special group that tries to survive and accord in a special environment, because organization, basically, is the thing that human has made it for the survival of himself. The biggest difference between human and other existing species that has conducted him to remain, progress, and development during many years, is the ability of thinking that others have very little quotient of that or don’t have at all. History has shown that many existing species that have been apparently bigger and stronger than human, like dinosaurs, have died because of their incongruity and discordance with circumstances, but human, this apparently weak species, is continuing the life with using the essential factor of thinking and making decision. Organization contains people, and the most important factor that can help it to remain, consolidate, and surpass the competitors, in this knowledge-based economy, is thinking and using the powerful mind of organization, because nowadays, after many years from Industrial Revolution, with three production factors of land, capital and labor, in the century of information and creating organized R&D, knowledge and management have become the most important factors of production, and those organizations which better use these two factors, are more successful and permanent. Thus creating and then continues improvement of knowledge management in organization, as a process that create the “mind of organization”, is inevitable, and during this course, not only knowledge of the organization’s members will be gather and according to the role of the synergy, total knowledge of a group is more than all their individual knowledge, but also available data and information from environment, specially from customers, would constantly enter as the fuel of organization\u27s mind and lead to develop” the mind of organization” which the result of that is performance found on the internal and external circumstances of organization, and finally “survival of the organization as the fittest”. This paper is going to consider and survey creating this principle of the survival of organization (the mind of organization) and improve that, technologically and socially

Uncertainty and the Consqeuences of Technological Innovation

Technological innovation is frequently a means for reducing uncertainty in organizational activities. At the same time, uncertainty also arises about the potential consequences of introducing the innovation. Innovation involving complex new information systems (IS) often carries uncertainty about consequences, particularly when goals or expectations are unclear. Previous research has reinforced the significance of the problem whereby anticipated consequences have less impact, no impact or the opposite impact to that anticipated. Unanticipated consequences, particularly when also undesirable, emerge to frustrate organizations’ innovation efforts. A process research framework is proposed for examining the linkages between uncertainty and consequences. The contribution of this paper is an explanation of theory and method for developing a model linking the management of uncertainty to knowledge of consequences. A case study in an Australian healthcare organization and the case methodology are described. The research is work in progress in the organization, tracking through nine months of implementation period and three months of routine use

GENERALIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN PRODUCTION

In our opinion, the stages of production development: craft, manufacture, machine production are the historical phases of technology formation and the corresponding division of labor. Social interaction and organization of relations between people in society depend on these factors. The stages of genesis of knowledge and cognition from the pre-scientific level to science, from spontaneous empirical to the conscious theoretical knowledge and its practical application also correspond to the stages of production development. This study reveals the technology as a universal principle of human activity unites production and science, practice and theory. Technology connects with each other not only the goal, means and result of activity into single process, but also unites people in certain social groups, communities, collectives. And because of that, the achieved result is an implemented goal. If a person itself, personality and society become a goal of technological progress, then technology serves social self-developmen

TEORI PERKEMBANGAN PESERTA DIDIK

The purpose of this study is to find out the theory of student development. This type of research is library research. This research makes Library materials as its main data source. The theory of psychoanalysis is a form of flow, one of the theories that discusses the nature and development of personality forms owned by humans. One of the factors that determine the progress and retreat of an organization is the existence of human resources who have quality abilities both in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, will make an organization easy to achieve the goals set. Because human resources are the key that moves the wheels of the organization so that it usually runs dynamically, the main elements in theory are motivation, emotions, and other aspects of personality. This article will examinedevelopmental theory, Sigmund Freud's structure of human personality, Erik-Erikson's human personality development, Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Buhler Rogers, Charlotte's   self-concept. Through this paper it is necessary to instill motivation in the development of students

Culture Theory

{Excerpt} Some needs are common to all people—at all times and in all places. They are the need to make a living, the need for social organization, the need for knowledge and learning, the need for normative and metaphysical expression, and the need for aesthetic manifestation. These nuts and bolts of everyday lifework through the co-evolving realms of environment, economy, society, polity, and technology to make up systems of mutual sustainability or (in opposition) mutual vulnerability. Since people (not economies) are the main object and ultimate purpose of endeavors to progress, a society’s cultureis not just an instrument of development cooperation: it is its basis. The marriage of economy and environment was overdue and has spawned a world agenda for that purpose. Likewise, the relationship between culture and development should be clarified and deepened in ways that are authentic, indigenous, self-reliant, sovereign, civilized, and creative. Culture theory is a branch of anthropology, semiotics, and other related social science disciplines such as political economy, in particular, but also sociology and communication (to name a few). It seeks to define heuristic concepts of culture. Hence, cultural studies often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, and gender. The potential for application is correspondingly vast—it follows that practitioners of culture theory draw from a diverse array of theories and associated practices and encompass many different approaches, methods, and academic perspectives. And so, it remains relatively unstructured as an academic field that needs to move from “Let’s” to “How.” Taking culture into account should mean understanding how cultural dimensions enter utility and production functions of various kinds. In the case of development agencies and their partner countries, new processes of policyanalysis and participatory management should surely be devised so that non-economic social sciences become full partners in the decision-making concerning the policy andinvestment decisions that guide business processes. Much remains to be done

Services trade liberalization and regulatory reform : re-invigorating international cooperation

Trade and investment in services are inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha negotiations are on average twice as restrictive as actual policy. They will generate no additional market opening. Regulatory concerns help explain the limited progress. This paper develops two proposals to enhance the prospects for both liberalization of services trade and regulatory reform. The first is for governments to create mechanisms ("services knowledge platforms") to bring together regulators, trade officials, and stakeholders to discuss services regulatory reform. Such mechanisms could identify reform priorities and opportunities for utilization of"aid for trade"resources, thereby putting in place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World Trade Organization, with a critical mass of countries that account for the bulk of services production agreeing to lock-in applied levels of protection and pre-committing to reform of policies affecting foreign direct investment and international movement for individual service providers -- two areas where current policy is most restrictive and potential benefits from liberalization are greatest. If these proposals cannot be fully implemented in the Doha time frame, then any Doha agreement could at least lay the basis for a forward-looking program of international cooperation along the proposed lines.Trade and Services,Public Sector Corruption&Anticorruption Measures,Emerging Markets,Economic Theory&Research,ICT Policy and Strategies

Decolonial feminist theory: Embracing the gendered colonial difference in management and organisation studies

Feminist theories in management and organization studies, each with their own ontological and epistemological assumptions, offer critical perspectives of the status quo to challenge our idea of progress in the discipline, yet there is limited engagement with ideas, theories, or practices from the lived experiences of Global South women. Decolonial feminism engages with debates pertaining to coloniality/ modernity and indigenous identity and gender in Latin America, while providing a space for the voices and lived experiences of marginalized, non‐Western(ised) women. Positioned in the context of Guatemalan Maya women and deploying critical insights from decolonial feminists, I unpack how the discourse about Global South women silences their voices and agency. Integrating decolonial feminist theory allows us to rethink management and organizationorganization studies as a Western gendered system. Interrupting mainstream narratives to bring a new geopolitics of knowledge and knowing from the perspective of the gendered colonial difference