In the light of various studies carried out in various socio-economic areas, scientific and cultural development has been introduced as a prerequisite and fundamental factor for sustainable development of the societies. Obviously, universities, as a "scientific and intellectual command center of the society" have a fundamental and unique role and function. In order to achieve this, the most sig...

is a vice president of The Camden Group. Ms. Witt's expertise is in medical group and integrated delivery system development and management, including physician-hospital relationships, practice management, performance improvement, physician compensation, managed care, and strategic planning. is a senior vice president of The Camden Group. Ms. Jacobs's expertise is in the areas of physician-hosp...

Whilst a great deal of academic research and many methods used by consultants and practitioners in knowledge management have focused on developing successful strategies, few have reviewed strategic-fit. This project aims to fill this gap. A survey of over 150 organisations discovers distinct variations in the knowledge orientation of organisations with different strategic approaches. These find...

The continued development of strategic planning processes in electric utilities is of utmost importance, given their increasingly complex, dynamic markets. Development will be blocked unless electric utilities begin developing and integrating other organization systems within their strategic planning processes to create "strategic support ·systems". This article describes three dimensions for a...

the complexity and development of business decision making is in need of strategic management. the management of the internal affairs of a company is only a part of managers function. a through and appropriate approach to the dynamics of external environment of organization such as the competitors, suppliers, the ever decreasing and scarce resources, the government sponsored rules and regulatio...

This paper questions the influence of a pre-existing information technology (IT) infrastructure on the formulation of an organizational knowledge strategy. We draw on a classification of four different strategic views of IT infrastructure and explore how the historic investment in IT infrastructure enables and constrains the formulation of knowledge strategy in four case organizations. The four...

The concept of knowledge management (KM) as a powerful competitive weapon has been strongly emphasized in the strategic management literature, yet the sustainability of the competitive advantage provided by KM capability is not well-explained. To fill this gap, this paper develops the concept of KM as an organizational capability and empirically examines the association between KM capabilities ...