Entrepreneurs in many small firms could not be experts in only one specific functional area but are required to operate across the range of management competencies; the applicability of competence-based MTD (management training and development) to the broader roles of entrepreneurs in small businesses is likely to be greater than to the roles of many entrepreneurs in large organizations. Compet...

OBJECTIVE The Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea) initiated a programme in 2012 for enhancing interprofessional networking in the medication management of the aged. The goal is to develop national guidelines for interprofessional collaboration with respect to medication management. This study aims to explore the challenges and potential solutions experienced by existing health care teams in managi...

each organization forms its own culture in which the shared values,beliefs, and behaviours of the members of that organization come together and coalesce over period of time. in due course, the leadership style of the top management, and the norms, values and beliefs of the members combine to form the corporate culture. organizational effectiveness may be increased by creating a culture that ac...

Sentiment Analysis is a very challenging and important task that contains natural language processing, web mining and machine learning. Up to date, few researches have been conducted on sentiment classification for Arabic languages due to the lack of resources for managing sentiments or opinions such as senti-lexicons and opinion corpora. The main obstacle in Arabic sentiment analysis is that p...

The article deals with one of the key concepts theory organization, namely effectiveness management, which is understood as an economic category that reflects contribution management activities to end result organization. theoretical aspects formation industrial and logistical infrastructure are considered in article. A functional-structural approach security presented. "infrastructure" conside...

INTRODUCTION Many epidemiological methods for analysing follow-up studies require the calculation of rates based on accumulating person-time and events, stratified by various factors. Managing this stratification and accumulation is often the most difficult aspect of this type of analysis. TUTORIAL We provide a tutorial on accumulating person-time and events, stratified by various factors i.e...

Utilizing the resource complementarity perspective of the resource based view (RBV) of a firm, and the literature on information technology (IT) and environmental sustainability as the guiding theoretical lenses, we posit that the relationships of electronic-government (e-government) development and electronic-business (ebusiness) development in a country with its environmental sustainability a...

This paper looks at institutional issues which influence support for livelihoods. It builds in particular on two significant pieces of work in Africa, research carried out in Southern Africa by Khanya (And for this it draws on Goldman et al (2000a and b)), and an evaluation of UNDP’s Global SL Programme, as well as Khanya’s other work in a total of 13 African countries. Much of this work has us...

The authors outline trends in managing knowledge, introduce the emerging framework of knowledge governance, and expand its scope. The major approaches of classical knowledge management, distilled to cook-book definitions and consultant practices, are increasingly viewed as inadequate in addressing the growing complexity of information and knowledge flows in modern organizations and societies de...

Of late, the amount of digital X-ray images that are produced in hospitals is increasing rapidly. Efficient storing, processing and classifying X-ray images have thus become an important research topic. Due to the increase in medical digital images, there is a rising need of managing this data properly and accessing them accurately. To overcome the difficulties of manual classification, the aut...