Knowledge Management in the Public Sector: The Spilling Effects on Employee Performance Using the SECI Model

This research aims to explore the impact of knowledge management on performance, essentially through employee engagement, succession planning and leadership development, using the SECI model developed by Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1996 (Forst, 2012). The research uses a case study approach by examining the Public Sector of the Virgin Islands. We draw upon two survey instruments to analyse the variables in our model: Knowledge Management Assessment Instrument (KMAI) and Gallup Workplace Audit (GWA). Our results revealed that knowledge sharing enhances employee engagement, leadership development and succession planning. These findings could assist the public sector to understand the dynamics of knowledge management which can help increase employee engagement and the development of leadership

Trade and conflict: The dyad of Greece and Turkey

The conflict-trade paradigm has been dominated by the liberal and realist schools of thought, which try to explain how and why trade affects conflict and cooperation. While the liberal point of view predicts a positive effect of levels of trade on cooperation, realists counter by arguing a negative or negligible effect at best. The article presents the basic theoretical arguments and extensions of the conflict-trade relation as espoused by the liberal school of thought and applies them to the Greco-Turkish dyad. Foreign policy conclusions are drawn from a Greek point of view, and are related to trade volume, type of trade, state of democratization, country size, contiguity, tariffs, foreign aid, and third-party effects. With few qualifications, it is shown that it would serve Greece’s best interests and promote peace in the region if Turkey were to become a full member of the European Union.Trade, conflict, Greece, Turkey