Leadership Styles and Organizational Knowledge Management Activities: A Systematic Review

Leaders play a critical role in the success or failure of their organizations. Leaders can be effective in implementing changes, building their organization's capabilities, and improving its performance, or the opposite, they could be ineffective. In this systematic review, the authors aim to summarize the findings of previous quantitative research, published between the period from 2000 to 2018, to identify the effect of various leadership styles on organizational Knowledge management (KM) capabilities and activities. The authors reviewed 50 articles found in well-known databases included Emerald, ScienceDirect, Taylor and Francis, Ebsco, Google Scholar, and others, concerning the impact of leadership when implementing KM in business organizations. The review revealed that transformational, transactional, knowledge-oriented leadership, top executives, and strategic leadership have evidence of their constant and positive effect on the KM process. The authors encourage organizations to use a combination of those styles to maximize the effect of leadership on KM. The authors also recommend conducting further studies on the effect of the remaining leadership styles, such as the ethical and servant leadership styles on KM and the other specific KM activities. 

BOP theory in an emerging market economy: India under the microscope

Poverty is a universal phenomenon which does not go well with the progressive 21st century and hence the worldwide efforts to overcome the problem. At the beginning of the 21st century (2002), the late professor C.K. Prahalad had propounded a path breaking theory of poverty alleviation called the bottom of the pyramid business theory, which is not only making MNCs investments (FDI) in underdeveloped countries and promoting their growth and employment generation and increase in incomes and thereby consumption and expenditure but also producing goods and services needed by the poor households at the bottom of the economic and business pyramid. The paper is devoted to the consideration of the theory in the emerging market economy of India where poverty is a biggest problem and the situation is not found significant for the BOP business. Can there be a market solution to it

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Medical tourism in Portugal – a potential niche market

In this age of globalized medicine, when international travel and access to online health information is easily accessible, medical tourism (MT) gains an important global perspective on health. Patients, in most countries around the world, are exercising crescent degrees of autonomy in their health care options, obtaining information from different sources from their regular health care providers and, in some cases, choosing to seek care alternatives outside of national health service. In Portugal MT, is still only in the early stages but is considered one of the strategic products for tourism development. This study aims to explore the existing information on MT in Portugal. Information plays a very important role in attracting medical tourism and Portugal’s ability to design and implement information networks is largely known. Proper medical information systems are one of the most important tools for attracting medical tourists. The analysis in this paper reveals that Portugal presents the necessary conditions to be a destination of MT, due to the infrastructures and the human resources that it has, but currently few people know this country for the practice of medical treatments. Although the MT is in the introductory phase of the market, already has mechanisms to meet demand, it is still necessary to position itself in the international market. It will be necessary to create an image of Portugal associated with tourism linked to health care, creating a branding and slogans to promote the MT.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cultural differences and entrepreneurial needs

The purpose of this study was to investigate entrepreneurial intentions and cultural differences. The sample represents 1,110 business students from ten cultural clusters. The students completed a questionnaire that focussed on various dimensions of entrepreneurial intentions. Results indicated various statistically significant differences between the cultures. Country specific strategies related to enhancing entrepreneurship are discussed at the end of the paper