bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Dual-Frequency Ultrasonic Inactivation of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis Using Persulfate: A Synergistic Effect
Authors: Garkusheva Natalia , Tsenter Irina , Kobunova Elena , Matafonova Galina , Batoev Valeriy
Published: August 2022

Dual-frequency ultrasound (DFUS) has received considerable attention for enhanced inactivation of microbial pathogens for medical treatment, but remains little investigated for water disinfection. This study is focused on inactivation of E. coli and E. faecalis in aqueous solution under dual-frequency ultrasonication at 120 + 1700 kHz using persulfate. Single-frequency ultrasonic inactivation showed the higher efficiency of 1700 kHz, compared to 120 kHz. Under the experimental conditions used, no measurable synergy between two frequencies was observed in the absence of persulfate. A high time-based synergistic effect in terms of total inactivation (5-log) of both bacterial species was achieved by DFUS-activated persulfate with synergistic indices of 1.8–5.0. We assume that this is attributed to increased generation of reactive oxygen species (primarily, sulfate anion (SO4•−) and hydroxyl (•OH) radicals) as a result of enhanced acoustic cavitation. Radical probing and scavenging tests confirmed the generation of radicals and showed a nearly equal contribution of •OH and SO4•−. This method could be an attractive alternative to ultraviolet technology for fast and effective water disinfection.
Floodborne Objects Type Recognition Using Computer Vision to Mitigate Blockage Originated Floods
Authors: Iqbal Umair , Riaz Muhammad Zain Bin , Barthelemy Johan , Hutchison Nathanael , Perez Pascal
Published: August 2022

The presence of floodborne objects (i.e., vegetation, urban objects) during floods is considered a very critical factor because of their non-linear complex hydrodynamics and impacts on flooding outcomes (e.g., diversion of flows, damage to structures, downstream scouring, failure of structures). Conventional flood models are unable to incorporate the impact of floodborne objects mainly because of the highly complex hydrodynamics and non-linear nature associated with their kinematics and accumulation. Vegetation (i.e., logs, branches, shrubs, entangled grass) and urban objects (i.e., vehicles, bins, shopping carts, building waste materials) offer significant materialistic, hydrodynamic and characterization differences which impact flooding outcomes differently. Therefore, recognition of the types of floodborne objects is considered a key aspect in the process of assessing their impact on flooding. The identification of floodborne object types is performed manually by the flood management officials, and there exists no automated solution in this regard. This paper proposes the use of computer vision technologies for automated floodborne objects type identification from a vision sensor. The proposed approach is to use computer vision object detection (i.e., Faster R-CNN, YOLOv4) models to detect a floodborne object’s type from a given image. The dataset used for this research is referred to as the “Floodborne Objects Recognition Dataset (FORD)” and includes real images of floodborne objects blocking the hydraulic structures extracted from Wollongong City Council (WCC) records and simulated images of scaled floodborne objects blocking the culverts collected from hydraulics laboratory experiments. From the results, the Faster R-CNN model with MobileNet backbone was able to achieve the best Mean Average Precision (mAP) of 84% over the test dataset. To demonstrate the practical use of the proposed approach, two potential use cases for the proposed floodborne object type recognition are reported. Overall, the performance of the implemented computer vision models indicated that such models have the potential to be used for automated identification of floodborne object types.
La distribución espacial y social de los enterramientos en la necrópolis post contacto de las iguanas, noroeste de Guayaquil
Authors: López Muñoz Telmo
Published: August 2022

El rescate de una necrópolis tardía en el sector noroeste del perímetro urbano de la ciudad de Guayaquil, ha permitido conocer la persistencia y recurrencia de varios sistemas de sepultura, vigentes por centurias en las sociedades aborígenes. Los ajuares que acompañaron a gran parte de los individuos de la sociedad Chono (Milagro – Quevedo) sepultados en esta necrópolis, demuestran que no existió una diferenciación social acentuada en este sector de la cuenca baja del río Guayas.
Análisis prospectivo del proceso de reconversión en la comunidad Sosote, Manabí, Ecuador
Authors: Jalil Vélez Nadya Judafeet , Roque Doval Yamila , Paz Enrique Luis Ernesto
Published: August 2022

La prospectiva es la disciplina que se encarga de predecir hecho futuros. El uso de la prospectiva puede modificar hechos que ocurrirán develando oportunidades y potencialidades. En la comunidad de Sosote, Manabí, Ecuador; se está realizando un proceso de reconversión social espontáneo el cual es necesario analizar prospectivamente. En la literatura científica producida en el Ecuador y específicamente en Manabí, no existen referencias sobre estudios vinculados al proceso de reconversión social. Se plantea como objetivo del estudio: identificar las tendencias de reconversión social en la comunidad de Sosote, Manabí; a través de un análisis prospectivo. Para la obtención de resultados se emplean métodos en los niveles teórico y empírico, esencialmente el método prospectivo. Se identifica la participación y la asociación gremial como las formas en las que puede alcanzarse un verdadero desarrollo comunitario.
Importancia de la comunicación estratégica en la socialización del buen vivir
Authors: Márquez López Jorge Oswaldo , Burau Grain Edgar Emiliano , Cevallos García Iván Humberto , Vásquez Orozco José Luis
Published: August 2022

La comunicación estratégica es una herramienta fundamental para establecer y mantener relaciones positivas entre las instituciones o personas con el fin de conseguir objetivos tangibles e intangibles para las mismas. En este texto se exponen los diferentes ejes en donde se desarrolla la comunicación, su uso y efectividad particularmente en el ámbito del Buen Vivir, desde un estudio de tipo descriptivo con el empleo del análisis documental. A partir del concepto de comunicación se define la aplicación de diversas estrategias. Además, se expone la práctica de la comunicación estratégica en la difusión del Buen Vivir.
EDITORIAL
Authors: Wunder Alik , Novaes Marcus Pereira
Published: August 2022

EDITORIAL
Transformações na educação pública brasileira: da república velha ao Estado Novo
Authors: Paiva Adriana Pontes , Silva Alessandra Lara
Published: August 2022

O presente estudo visa analisar os aspectos gerais das mudanças educacionais no Brasil, no que tange às reformas, à centralização e à descentralização do ensino, e à necessidade de um ensino de Primeiro Grau mais social e abrangente e de um Segundo Grau tecnicista mais direcionado às demandas do mercado, atendendo à necessidade de força de trabalho técnica especializada devido à industrialização. Para compreender o contexto histórico do período estudado, foi utilizada a pesquisa bibliográfica-documental, de abordagem qualitativa. Este estudo busca analisar as consequentes mudanças que permeiam os primeiros acontecimentos no campo educacional da 1ª República, o escolanovismo, a Revolução de 1930 e o Manifesto dos Pioneiros, as Diretrizes e Bases da Educação, perpassando pela Educação no Estado Novo, as já aludidas reformas no ensino de 1º e 2º Graus até a Reforma Universitária. O resultado da análise deixa evidente que tanto a política quanto a legislação no campo educacional da República Velha até o Estado Novo não trouxeram mudanças significativas no sistema educacional do país, devido às inconsistências ideológico-políticas, que se desenvolveu estratificado e arraigado à política liberal.
Improving the Offer for SMEs Through Managing Internal Competency Gaps in Ecolabnet Project: The Case of Czestochowa University of Technology (CUT)
Authors: Chmielarz Grzegorz , Kuceba Robert
Published: August 2022

Proper knowledge management is of particular significance in all projects, and especially important in the case of international ones. Such projects involve actors from several countries, and thus, have to allow for considerable differences stemming from cultural differentiation, diverse work patterns, and various levels of competencies in the project’s area. The latter ones seem to be most prone to changes, and improving the level of internal competencies in the case of one of the project partners can greatly contribute to a larger success of the project as a whole. To do so, it is crucial to analyse one’s gaps of competencies and draw up a plan of introducing corrective measures in this respect. This has been done during the implementation of the Ecolabnet project, financed by Interreg, and implemented in the six partner countries: Finland, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania, in the years 2019-2021. All the project partners formed the project consortium, whose objective was to accelerate the development of eco-innovations in manufacturing enterprises from the SME sector in the Baltic Sea Region. One of the stages of knowledge management in the project constituted identification of own competency gasps and addressing this issue. The paper presents the process of managing the knowledge on own competency gaps, and the measures that were taken so as to eliminate them.  Additionally, the authors present the results of the survey conducted among the SMEs in the project partner countries, which illustrates the needs of the said SMEs in the area of eco-innovations. The authors also describe the steps taken so as to eliminate own competency gaps and improve the quality of CUT’s offer for SMEs based on the results of the survey.
Managing Knowledge About Future of Work: A Model for Higher Education Institutions
Authors: Argôlo Matheus , Miranda Mauricio , Pagliusi Rodrigo , Oliveira de Lima Yuri , Dos Santos Herbert , Barbosa Carlos Eduardo , Lyra Alan , De Souza Jano
Published: August 2022

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is causing considerable changes to the world of work. The interaction between technology and work, which takes many forms such as digitalization, automation, and augmentation, is happening quickly and broadly, impacting economic sectors left almost untouched by previous industrial revolutions. In this scenario, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) must be able to foresee changes to prepare future professionals to match the needs of this new digital age. The professionals that are being prepared today need to learn a new set of skills related to emerging and disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Big Data. In this paper, we propose a Knowledge Management model to help manage the HEIs’ teaching staff knowledge about the future of work, specifically, the expected skills and competencies to be highly demanded from professionals in the future. Therefore, we performed a brief review of related work about Knowledge Management in the context of HEIs, Management of Future-oriented Knowledge, and the application of the Delphi method to studies concerning the Future of Work. Considering this previous work, we propose a Knowledge Management model that combines the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model framework with a Delphi process that is used during the Knowledge Generation step of the Knowledge Management process. The proposed model considers that professors are experts in their areas of concentration and, as such, are capable of helping their HEIs with their knowledge that can be used to improve the courses’ curricula. The model also considers that HEIs can help professors make this knowledge explicit, then store, transfer, and apply it. We provide detailed information about how to apply the model, how to deal with potential application problems and the model limitations. The proposed Knowledge Management model can help HEIs to keep up with the trends of demands of the labor market.
Awareness, Adoption, and implementation of Building Information Modelling in Small and Medium Enterprises in the Moroccan AEC Industry
Authors: El Asri Hayat , Benhlima Laila
Published: August 2022

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has gained widespread popularity over the past decade, mainly in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. The adoption of BIM in developed countries is already regulated as opposed to developing and underdeveloped countries. This study aims at filling the knowledge gap as to the adoption and implementation of BIM practices in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with a focus on the Moroccan AEC industry. The main goals of this study are 1. to determine the BIM awareness level and adoption rate, 2. to assess the familiarity level, 3. to establish the benefits, challenges, and prospects of BIM. The results of this study have shown that BIM awareness is high, but its adoption and implementation are not, though promising as it is exponentially gaining the attention of AEC practitioners.
Achieving Public Value in Universities Through Knowledge Management: The Need of Rationalization regarding Investee Companies
Authors: Berardi Marco , Ziruolo Andrea , Fontana Fabrizia , Cifolelli Simone
Published: August 2022

International literature deeply investigates the contribution of Knowledge Management in the process of cost rationalization in public universities to achieve public value through performance management strategies.

What emerges is a literature gap in relation to specific analysis concerning the impact of the “rationalization” of the companies owned by public universities and the sustainability of the investments made in universities, especially during a “pandemic period”.

This work, through a qualitative analysis of the planning documents provided by Italian universities on the subject regarding "rationalization of investee companies", aims to highlight the contribution of knowledge management on internal planning on the rationalization processes put in place by universities with a focus on the “Accountability during emergencies”.

The analysis we conducted will show how the rationalization objective is nowadays far from being considered efficient due to a lack in "Knowledge management" approach despite a “Strictly bureaucratic” system that does not guarantee the achievement of public value and at least, contributes to the destruction of it.
Knowledge Discovery in Case Studies: The Case Insight Method for Case-Based Problem Solving
Authors: Bettoni Marco Cesare
Published: August 2022

The topic of this paper is a new method of knowledge discovery in documents called “Case Insight” (abbreviated to CI). The research question that led to this development was “How can we discover knowledge through case studies and make it usable for case-based problem solving?” To answer this question, this research took a Systems Thinking and Networked Thinking qualitative approach.  Case-based problem-solving uses knowledge contained in authentic case descriptions (i.e. “good practice” or even “best practice” cases) and adapts it to the requirements of a new problem. Who can use this? Managers and management consultants who are starting out in their careers can benefit in particular from the CI method as it allows them to expand their repertoire of experience in problem-solving on the basis of case studies, i.e. without being involved in projects. All those interested in solving complex management problems in a case-based way also form part of the target audience. Case studies contain a great deal of problem-solving knowledge but only part of that knowledge can be absorbed through simple reading. The rest remains difficult to access, a hidden treasure, so to speak.  Why is that? The reason is that knowledge discovery in case studies is made more difficult due to two obstacles: firstly, the texts are not sufficiently brain-friendly and secondly, they are not designed holistically enough. The CI method makes it possible to overcome these obstacles by means of CI tools and CI models. Firstly, CI tools are used to analyse case studies by comparing concepts, ideas, etc. and combining them into a whole; secondly, CI models make knowledge discovered in this way usable in the form of brain-friendly and holistic knowledge structures. Thus, knowledge discovery through the CI method complies with Immanuel Kant’s definition of knowledge as "a whole of compared and linked ideas".
Knowledge Management for Smart Tourism: an exploratory survey in Abruzzo region
Authors: Cifolelli Simone , Ziruolo Andrea , Berardi Marco
Published: August 2022

Research on Knowledge Management has seen a growing interest in Smart Tourism in recent years due to the need of effectively managing knowledge for sustainable and digital tourism competitiveness. In this sense, literature simultaneously suggests open data as the black gold of the new millennium, and the missed link for the smartness of tourism destinations. Nonetheless, in contrast to the global trend of leading countries to Tourism 4.0, Italy has been experiencing a weak tourist dynamism, witnessed by the eighth place in the report on the "Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index" (WEF, 2020) achieved in the face of a predominant share of the worldwide cultural heritage located in its territory. Therefore, based on these premises we intend to provide an academic contribution to fill the literature gap on Knowledge Management in the context of Smart Tourism, highlighting how much the sharing information systems among stakeholders can promote the emergence of a virtuous collaborative intertwining between public and private tourist actors. The present case study concerns the planning and implementation of a tourist digital platform by the Abruzzo Region (Italy), according to the principles of Smart Governance, as one of the first practical reactions to the Italian lack of a widespread digital transition. Thus, this work aims to exploit the information previously collected through surveys administered by the managers of the Abruzzo Offices for “Information and Tourist Reception”. This is regarding Knowledge Management structural limits and added value, in order to analyze Smart Tourism benefits and to provide future research agenda about regional tourism competitiveness.
A bibliometric analysis deconstructing research on how digitalisation affects knowledge workers
Authors: Isegran Henry , Kuvene Mats , Breunig Karl Joachim
Published: August 2022

Whereas previous waves of automation have predominantly affected labour intensive work, current cognitive technologies enable automation and commoditization of knowledge intensive work. However, extant research provides limited understanding of how this man-machine collaboration will unfold. Moreover, knowledge intensive firms, such as professional service firms, are characterized by how professionals show a preference for autonomy, exhibiting a distaste for control, supervision, and formal organizational processes. Therefore, it is particularly prudent to investigate how knowledge workers will be affected by the introduction of technologies like AI, IoT and Big Data, giving special attention to their professional autonomy. However, there exist limited empirical studies on how the interaction between autonomous professionals and machines unfold in practice, and there exist no unifying theory explaining the effect of digitalization on this type of knowledge intensive work. To provide a starting point for subsequent research, we offer a structured literature review aided by a bibliometric analysis to identify core contributions that can identify and synthesize main dimensions in extant research. We experimented with different searches phrases at Web of Science, and ended up with combining (Digi* OR techno*) AND autonomy, which resulted in 3961 articles. By excluding irrelevant categories our result was 815 articles. We then performed a bibliometric analysis aided by VOSviewer and narrowed our dataset down to 15 core articles. A content analysis of these core articles identified three different goals of digital implementation; digital tools to enhance communication and sharing of information, digital tools for better decisions and digital tools for monitoring and control. We found paradoxical relations regarding worker autonomy and technology within all three goals. The content analysis points in the direction that the increased control following the new technology dominated the gained autonomy for knowledge professionals. We found three dominating factors that could be used to explain how the professionals perceived the change in autonomy. These are; what kind of job, what kind of technology and the professional’s attitude towards social status, technology, change and knowledge sharing. We suggest that practitioners who are implementing digital technologies must pay attention to relations that affect knowledge professionals perceived autonomy.
Social capital, human capital, tacit knowledge, and innovations, A Polish-US cross-country study
Authors: Kucharska Wioleta , Erickson Scott
Published: August 2022

This study measures the relationship between human and social capital (internal and external) and tacit knowledge sharing's influence on innovativeness among knowledge workers employed in Polish (n=1050) and US (n=1118) organizations. The structural equation modeling method revealed that internal social capital matters more for organizational innovativeness in the US. In Poland, both external and internal were important. Specifically, in the US, external social capital supports internal innovativeness directly and external - indirectly. On the contrary, in Poland, social capital directly influences internal and external innovativeness.

These differences are partially due to country differences regarding public and private financing. Also apparent is the need for strong social bonds between employees in innovative companies. Furthermore, this study confirms that internal innovativeness is vital for external innovativeness and reveals that social capital is a structural enabler for innovativeness, given its critical role in the distribution of tacit knowledge.
Stimulating Eco-innovation Development in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Ecolabnet Eco-innovation Network
Authors: Jędrzejczyk Waldemar
Published: August 2022

The issues of the article concern the development of eco-innovations, which determine the level of eco-innovativeness not only of individual enterprises but also of regions and countries. Given the low level of eco-innovativeness in many economies of the world, it is necessary to take action targeted at increasing the objective level. Such a result can be obtained by saturating all business processes with eco-innovative solutions. An example of an initiative aimed at stimulating eco-innovative behavior is the Ecolabnet project, implemented by an international network of partners (Network of Service Providers for Eco-innovations in Manufacturing SMEs - Ecolabnet) representing research and development units from six Baltic Sea countries. The network has been established as a part of the ongoing Baltic Sea Region Interreg Programme 2014-2020. In order to support enterprises—SMEs in particular—in the development of eco-innovation, it is first necessary to diagnose their needs and expectations in this respect. These needs have been identified using surveys carried out among SMEs based in the Baltic Sea countries. In response to the identified needs, eight packages of eco-innovation services dedicated to SMEs have been developed: Business strategy, Eco-innovation management, Bio-based materials, Product design and development, 3D printing, Environmental assessment, Marketing, and Other eco-innovation expertise. For targeting the offered services more precisely, companies were categorized in terms of their eco-innovative attitudes. Six types of eco-identity were distinguished: Eco-Opportunist, Eco-Booster, Eco-Developer, Eco-Optimizer, Eco-Cautious, and Eco-Laggard. A digital collaboration tool (DCT) has been developed to enable unrestricted access to network resources, such as services and products. DCT stimulates the creation of a service providers network to support eco-innovative activities in small and medium-sized enterprises. The main objective of the article is to present the potential of the international network of Ecolabnet partners to stimulate the development of eco-innovation in enterprises.
Role of Managers in Stimulating Innovativeness of Employees in Enterprises
Authors: Bylok Felicjan
Published: August 2022

The process of creating knowledge and innovation is becoming a significant challenge for enterprises operating on both international and domestic markets. A key factor that has an impact on this process refers to the actions of managers on behalf of creating an environment that is favourable towards the innovativeness of employees. A significant task for managers is to initiate, support and control the innovative activities of employees. By assuming that managers have a significant impact on the process of creating knowledge and innovation in enterprises, this facilitated the formulation of the research objective, which was to search for the answers to the following two research questions: What relationships exist between manager traits and employee innovativeness in enterprises? To what extent do leadership attributes influence creating an innovative organizational climate in enterprises? The assumed goal was executed due to the application of the method of critical analysis of literary sources and the survey method. The empirical research conducted among 179 enterprises from the list of 500 largest enterprises in Poland was conducted in 2019 with the aid of a standardized survey questionnaire using the techniques of CATI and CAWI. As a result of the research, statistically significant relations were discovered between the features of managers and the level of innovation and knowledge in the analysed enterprises. Their positive impact on the innovative environment was illustrated. The research findings acquired provide knowledge about the role of managers in terms of stimulating the innovative behaviour of employees.
The role of mentorship in universities: the knowledge management framework
Authors: Jyrämä Annukka , Kuznetsova-Bogdanovitsh Kristina
Published: August 2022

Abstract: In this paper we discuss mentorship in the university context with a focus on knowledge sharing and creation.  We assume from the outset that academics and actors representing practice, as well as students, can be considered as distinct or interlinked communities of practice, where the participants of the community share similar values, norms and practices that follow community-specific dominant logics. We suggest there is a role for mentors between academia, student life and fields of practice, and that the knowledge creation and sharing processes can take different formats, similar to changing mentor roles in facilitating or sharing the knowledge processes.

We discuss the roles of mentors in the knowledge sharing contexts of communities of practice building on previous studies reflecting the professional identity of students and mentoring in those same contexts. We look at knowledge and learning  as processes, acknowledging the specific nature of tacit and explicit knowledge following the perspectives from the SECI model  and experiential learning. We further elaborate the role of mentors in sharing and building knowledge focusing on the university context. The results indicate that mentoring takes various forms and needs different enabling processes in different contexts within university cycles. The role of informal unexpected mentoring occurring within the ‘ordinary’ learning context is often ignored. The contribution of the paper provides a deeper understanding of mentoring in the university, as well as elaborating on the mentor as a knowledge activist contributing new insights in knowledge management discussions. The study has managerial implications related to new approaches to transforming mentoring from being an “add-on” activity to an integrated part of university curriculum development.
Knowledge management and corporate social responsibility interactions in theory and practice
Authors: Krawczyk Patrycja
Published: August 2022

Knowledge management (KM) in the context of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a new and challenging topic. The possibilities of effectively introducing this process within an organisation and the global trend of its implementation are signals that the topic is worth taking a closer look at. Knowledge management brings the benefits necessary to effectively conduct business. When designed consciously and appropriately, they can increase the effectiveness of business activities and strengthen a company's competitive position. On the other hand, many companies have made the principles of sustainable development a part of their strategy. Knowledge management in the area of CSR is related to important challenges. One of them is a commitment of the board of directors. Particular attention should also be paid to the needs of people in various positions and different company departments. Companies spend huge amounts of money to accumulate knowledge in various forms. However, they cannot turn this knowledge into concrete actions. This article aims to identify common areas of KM and CSR. How the application of both of them will enhance company performance. It utilizes the methods of literature analysis and company reports analysis, as well as own observations. The research was conducted in two stages. Stage 1: literature analysis and synthesis. Stage 2: Analysis of non-financial reports of selected entities. The research question is, how to use knowledge management in the context of CSR. The goal of this article is to show the resonance between knowledge management and corporate social responsibility. The conclusions presented in the article can be valuable for business professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers, and business students.
Developing User Personas as a way of Managing Knowledge About Ecolabnet Project Participants
Authors: Chmielarz Grzegorz
Published: August 2022

One of the vital elements that decide about a success, or a failure of a project is adjusting its offer to the requirements of the beneficiaries. Various methods and tools are used in this respect to make the project’s offer consistent with these requirements and guarantee that they are satisfied. One of the methods used in this area is application of user personas. The idea is extensively used in the field of computer-human interactions, as it allows to improve user experience as well as the whole communication in the process of developing IT systems. However, the use of personas is not limited only to designing computer-based systems and solutions. The concept of personas has been also exploited in the Ecolabnet project, financed by Interreg, and implemented in six partner countries in the years 2019-2021. The process of knowledge management in the project assumed gathering the knowledge on its future beneficiaries  - manufacturing SMEs from the Baltic Sea Region – and adjusting the offer of the project consortium (RDIs and Intermediary Organisations) to the signalled needs of these enterprises. To facilitate the management of knowledge on the enterprises investigated in the project the concept of persons was used. The underlying objective of the paper is to present the process of transforming the knowledge on project participants into the concept of personas. It consists of two parts. The first part, the theoretical one includes the results of a literature review that provides essential knowledge on utilising the concept of personas in design and management processes. The second part, the empirical one, is based on the empirical research that was conducted at the initial stage of the project. The answers provided in the survey questionnaire allowed for identification of primary needs and barriers in the area of eco-innovations development. This knowledge has led to determining main personas of the project. The analysis of the process of mapping the project users’ needs and objective is supposed to answer the following research question: Does the application of personas concept in service design positively contributes to management of knowledge in international projects?
Threats to Future Knowledge: The Impact of the Pandemic on Organisational Recordkeeping
Authors: Haraldsdóttir Ragna , Foscarini Fiorella , Jeurgens Charles , Oliver Gillian , Wendelken Seren , Hessami Viviane , Tey Yu Jing
Published: August 2022

This paper reports the outcomes from the first phase of an international research project investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organisational recordkeeping. Recordkeeping is a critical component of organisational knowledge management, as the making and keeping of records as evidence of organisational activities and transactions enables core memory and accountability functions over time. Working from home during the pandemic has disrupted routines of records creation, storage, and management, and will likely result in substantial black holes in future knowledge.

The objective of the first phase of our study was to find out what records-related initiatives were underway in academic settings and in archival institutions in the initial stages of this global crisis. We conducted an environmental scan, which showed that much attention was being paid to documenting the pandemic (e.g., collecting and preserving social media discussion, promoting the use of diaries by citizens); however, the provision of advice and standards for organisational recordkeeping at a time when regular access to organisational systems could not be guaranteed was largely missing. In the second phase, we designed a survey aimed at capturing the experiences of recordkeeping professionals who worked from home for varying lengths of time in Europe, North America, and Australasia.

It is expected that this comparative study will help us envision a “new normal” for the time when the current health emergency is over. This paper concludes with a discussion of how our environmental scan and literature review have informed the multilingual survey that is currently underway.
Managing Knowledge Towards Firm Performance: The Moderation Role of the Business Environment
Authors: Arthur Emmanuel Ebo
Published: August 2022

The prominence of the knowledge economy technological innovation and economic development globally cannot be questioned. However, not all firms especially from Central and Eastern European to tap into the benefits coupled with new knowledge for improvement in firm innovation performance. Mostly, this is due to environmental factors confronting the firms. This study focused on the impact of External Knowledge (EK), R&D expenditure and ICT usage on firm innovation performance with the moderation role of informal competition. We used Resource Dependency Theory and Contingency theory as the theoretical background. A cross sectional data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2019 on 3105 firms from CEE regions namely Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland was analysed using logistic regression. These countries were selected because firms face elevated level of informal competition in the business environment. The study confirmed the hypotheses that, internal R&D, external knowledge and website availability and usage have positive and significant direct effect on technological innovation. Our study contributes to the literature of R&D and firm performance by highlighting the moderating effect of business environment (informal competition).
Co-producing knowledge: challenges of the transdisciplinary research in pandemic times
Authors: Jung Marques Maria Angelica , Giugliani Eduardo , Silva Santos Jane Lucia
Published: August 2022

Human Factors is a broad area of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies and research focused on the perspective of the interaction between organizational, group and individual factors that aims at improving the performance and safety of people in complex organizations and socio-technical environments.  Knowledge to develop solutions to the complex problems that arise in this context can be co-produced by academic and non-academic actors through a transdisciplinary research framework that integrates the daily practices of stakeholders and creates structures that make co-production spaces effective for corporate’s practices. This paper present and discuss the strategies and challenges for developing spaces for human factors-based knowledge co-production on a transdisciplinary research project during the pandemic period of COVID-19. This ongoing research was designed to develop interactions and to co-produce knowledge aimed at the safety culture of companies in the oil and gas sector. Under the imposition of social distance and its consequent challenges, strategies to promote interaction, iteration, sharing, integration, co-creation, and co-production of knowledge had to be redesigned. Based on partial results, the research discusses and analyze the main dilemmas for the knowledge coproduction focusing on the 30 researchers, and on the knowledge coproduction between researchers and stakeholders. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had imposed new forms of relationships, the main challenges remained on the integration of knowledge as perceived by the research team. This paper presents the confrontation of the knowledge co-production challenges imposed by the new context associated with addressing two new constructs for the oil and gas industry, human factors and resilience, to improve safety culture. The discussion suggests and presents possibilities to overcome these challenges to continuous stimulate co-production of knowledge in these organizational environments.
Business Analytics and Firm Performance: A Literature Review
Authors: Hussinki Henri
Published: August 2022

Technological advancements and increasingly available intra- and extra-organizational data have attracted firms to invest in business analytics. Despite the growing number of firms that have invested in business analytics, only some of them have been able to turn their investments into tangible business benefits. This has raised questions among researchers and practitioners about the causal ambiguity between business analytics adoption and firm performance outcomes. Consequently, academic research community has recently launched an endeavor to produce empirical evidence on the relationship between business analytics and firm performance, considering different complementary resources, capabilities, and mechanisms that could better explain what firms need to gain business benefits from business analytics (e.g., Brynjolfsson and McElheran, 2016; Gupta and George, 2016).
The Intellectual Potential of Employees in Hospital Crisis Management During a Pandemic
Authors: Chluska Jolanta
Published: August 2022

Abstract: Hospitals are medical entities that provide health care services to patients. The specialized medical staff does not only provide medical services, but also educates future medical professionals, conducts clinical research, and supports the development of medical technology.

The important role of employees in hospital operations is evidenced by the dominant percentage of labour costs in the cost structure of the health care entity.

The article aims to analyse the changes in remuneration of teaching hospital employees as a factor stimulating the increase in the intellectual potential of hospital employees, including medical staff as the main resource of knowledge workers, in hospital crisis management during a pandemic.

The inference was made based on the available financial data on the formation and growth of labour  costs of hospital employees as a factor in stimulating the development of intellectual potential.

The following research questions were posed: Is the level of remuneration of hospital employees during a pandemic an expression of building the intellectual potential of hospital employees and do current legal regulations on financing the operations of teaching hospitals in Poland, including the financing of salaries and other labour costs of medical staff, support crisis management during a pandemic?

The research was conducted based on the reporting data for 2018-2020 in selected teaching hospitals as primary entities employing high-level medical professionals. The research was empirical by nature and was based on quantitative and qualitative data. The analyses were of an expert nature from the perspective of a certified auditor and a long-term researcher of the problems of the functioning of hospitals as medical entities.

The investigations presented in the paper help identify the conditions for the development of the intellectual potential of hospital employees as actors involved in solving health problems of an international scope. The effects of the analyses are mainly addressed to the bodies establishing medical entities, bodies influencing the form of the health care system and hospital management staff.
Relationship Between Self-Efficacy, Trust, and Knowledge Sharing Among IT Industry Employees Working Remotely
Authors: Krzyżowska Ewelina
Published: August 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on socio-economic changes, including changes in the working environment. Remote working started to become widely applied. Consequently, there has been a growth in the level of interest in the organization of this form of work and the search for effective solutions that support labour efficiency in these particular conditions. One of the aspects that is gaining in significance in terms of working conditions that reduce direct face to face communication between employees is that of knowledge sharing. The aim of the paper was to analyse the dependencies between the chosen individual psychological variables and knowledge sharing in conditions of remote working. Emphasis was placed on the analysis of the relation between such variables as: self-efficacy and the level of interpersonal trust, while also knowledge sharing behaviour among the employees of the IT sector working remotely. A cross-sectional study model was applied. The study included 112 employees from the IT industry who worked remotely at the time of conducting the research. The following tools were used in the analysis: Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) by Schwarzer, Jerusalem, Juczyński, a questionnaire entitled Faith in a Person by Hybiak, while also a self-designed survey. In the analysis, a strong positive correlation between self–efficacy and knowledge sharing and a moderate positive correlation between trust and knowledge sharing was noted among the employees of the IT sector. The research findings significantly broaden knowledge in the sphere of the individual factors influencing the effective organization of the process of knowledge management, while particularly knowledge sharing in conditions of remote working. It is possible to state that the employees of the IT sector, who are characterized by a high level of self–efficacy, while also more prone to trust others, display a greater willingness to share knowledge with other employees. Familiarity with the relations between knowledge sharing and the psychological variables may be useful, particularly for IT managers.
Knowledge Management and Practices of Real Estate Valuation in Turkey
Authors: Erdogdu Celal , Spica Inese
Published: August 2022

The purpose of this research is to examine knowledge management (KM) and changes in the real estate (RE) valuation (V) profession in the case of Turkey, which is among the countries that are not fully transparent in RE investments, and to compare them with good practise examples. The increase in RE prices around the world, which started with the conditions of the COVID-19 period, while financial institution REV process and also creates dissatisfaction for buyers and sellers. While the world is experiencing an inflationary process, the rapid change in RE values ​​has made information management even more important in V in countries where there is no transparency in RE transactions. In this study, market players, KM in V accessible databases in V, software and web portals for valuers and companies, V workflows, number of RE sales with known transaction price information by year, number of RE sales with unknown transaction price information by year, value objection data by year, KM systems, public data sharing platforms, and legislation are looked at in the context of how they are used in the sample country. Literature research has been conducted in the field of information management since 2001 in the RE sector in the sample country and compared with world examples. In REV, the KM deficiencies needed to make more accurate value estimations for the benefit of credit institutions, collateral financing institutions, buyers, sellers, housing loan institutions, REV companies, and valuers have been researched. With its recommendations, good practise examples in the field of RE and REV in the world in KM are included. This study aims to be a reference source for future studies and discussions in this field by compiling knowledge on how KM is applied and used in the field of REV.
I share, we Share? A Mixed-Method Analysis of Helping Behaviors, HRM Practices and Knowledge Sharing Behavior
Authors: Gonçalves Tiago , Curado Carla , Martsenyuk Natalia
Published: August 2022

Knowledge sharing represents a key process to create value in organizational environments that reflects a complex interplay of individual and organizational level factors. Driven and heavily reliant on individuals’ willingness to share with others, effective knowledge sharing behavior is fostered through organizational characteristics that can promote prosocial behaviors, such as structured Human Resources Management Practices (HRMP). Nevertheless, knowledge sharing represents an extra-role voluntary behavior that depends on individual intention to engage in altruistic behavior to help others. While several studies assess the mediation role of such helping behaviors (HB) between organizational conditions that can foster knowledge sharing, few studies explore the complex combination between HRMP and individual HB leading to knowledge sharing in organizations. Similarly, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how HRMP and HB can contribute to the absence of knowledge sharing. This study addresses such gaps by examining the impact of HRMP and altruistic HB as conditions leading to knowledge sharing in the service industry (n=130) using a mixed-methods approach. We follow a quantitative design, using a partial-least squares (PLS) analysis to explore the relationship between HRMP, HB and knowledge sharing. Then, we follow a qualitative design, using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative approach (fsQCA) to identify complex configurations between HRMP, HB, age and education contributing to the presence and absence of knowledge sharing. Our quantitative findings find a positive relationship between both HRMP and HB leading to knowledge sharing behavior (KSB). Our qualitative findings present four alternative ways leading to knowledge sharing and corroborate the quantitative analysis. Additionally, qualitative results show four different configurations leading to the absence of knowledge sharing. We offer insight of the convergence of results, providing managerial approaches that can be used to promote KSB. Similarly, we recommend best practices to counter an absence of KSB given our methodological options and preventive practices inside the scope of Human Resources Management (HRM).
Measuring the Impact of a Shared Vision on the Perceived Meaningfulness
Authors: Baumgartner Lisa-Maria , Kerschbaum Clemens , Kaiser Alexander
Published: August 2022

In this paper we describe an approach to assess the impact that a shared vision has on the perceived meaningfulness of work in an organization.  Our measurement system is based on the essential principles of performance measurement. Building on this assessment logic, we present the process and respective scales that allow us to measure changes in perceived meaningfulness that occur through a shared vision development process. With this work, we provide a practically applicable measure to evaluate whether the creation of a shared vision is beneficial for an organization.