How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

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This paper provides a detailed review of the emerging themes on e-learning methods in organizations. It critically examines the advantages, disadvantages challenges, critical success factors, theories and models from the stakeholder's perspective. The paper also elucidates the changing trends in these themes along the progression of Web era. Electronic database like PROQUEST, EBSCO and JSTOR were accessed to search for tiered articles published between 2000 and 2018 using keywords such as “e learning”, “web-based learning” and “online learning” in organizations. 138 articles from tiered journals were critically reviewed. It was found that in the last two decades there have been various social, technological and organizational factors that have impacted the e learning stakeholders and no stakeholder influences the world of electronic learning in isolation. All the stakeholders have to keep up to the changing trends of technology and the associated learning environment. Rapid technological advancements and aligned changes in the learning environment is the unremitting challenge that stakeholders' face, which when tackled competently yields an effective e learning environment.

Emerging themes in e-learning: A review from the stakeholders' perspective

In the context of the scope, time, cost, and quality constraints, failure is not uncommon in project management. While small projects have 70% chances of success, large projects virtually have no chance of meeting the quadruple constraints. While there is no dearth of research on project risk management, the manifestation of barriers to project risk management is a less dwelt topic. The success of project management is oftentimes based on the understanding of barriers to effective risk management, application of appropriate risk management methodology, proactive leadership to avoid barriers, workers’ attitude, adequate resources, organizational culture, and involvement of top management. This paper represents various risk categories and barriers to risk management in domestic and international projects through literature survey and feedback from project professionals. After analysing the various modelling methods used in project risk management literature, interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis have been used to analyse interactions among the barriers and prioritize them. The analysis indicates that lack of top management support, lack of formal training, and lack of addressing cultural differences are the high priority barriers, among many others.

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Analysis of interactions among barriers in project risk management

Background:The use of e-learning techniques in higher education is becoming ever more frequent. In some institutions, e-learning has completely replaced the traditional teaching methods, while in others it supplements classical courses.Materials and methods:The paper presents a study conducted in a member institution of the University of Ljubljana that provides public administration programmes. We analysed the relationship between the proportion of the course implemented in the Moodle e-learning platform and students’ performance on one hand and their satisfaction on the other.Results:The empirical findings reveal a positive correlation for both elements. The results can help decision-makers learn more about how to enhance students’ success and satisfaction using an e-learning platform.Conclusions:The results of our study indicate that the implementation of blended learning with a LMS platform Moodle at the Faculty of Administration resulted in a statistically significant increase in students’ effectiveness, measured by the average grade and the average number of admissions to the exams.

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Analysis of Selected Aspects of Students’ Performance and Satisfaction in a Moodle-Based E-Learning System Environment

Effectiveness of e-learning systems is a matter of debate in corporate and academics alike, with researchers viewing it from course content and instructional design perspective, learner / teacher perspective or delivery medium and technology perspective. We argue that e-learning systems should not consider either of these perspectives in isolation. We analyze the e-learning systems using the socio-technical systems approach, which treats a work system to be made up of two jointly independent, but correlative interacting systems - the social and the technical. The technical system is concerned with the processes, tasks, and technology needed to transform i nputs to outputs. The social system is concerned with the attributes of people such as attitudes, skills, values, the relationships among people, reward systems, and authority structures. Outputs of the work system are the result of joint interactions between these two systems. We use Leavitt's model to analyze e-learning systems as socio-technical syste...

E-Learning as a Socio-Technical System: An Insight into Factors Influencing its Effectiveness

Knowledge Management (KM) helps organizations adapt, survive, and compete in a discontinuous and ever-changing business environment. Essentially, this involves a set of organizational processes whi...

A Framework for Communities of Practice in Learning Organizations

Most of the research on family business continuity is based in the western world. Continuity of family business is affected by social and cultural factors on one hand and on the stage of growth of the economy on the other. This paper focuses on the continuity concerns with reference to (1) the Eastern context and (2) the developing economy’s context, by studying Indian family businesses, with (3) specific focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Data were collected from SME business families using a questionnaire. The impact of various factors was examined on the family, the business and the inductee. This empirical study validates some of the drivers of effective succession identified so far in the literature. It sharply identifies the variables that can be more relevant and can directly affect the outcome in terms of positive impact on the business, family and the inductee. The findings of the study will be of great help in successful succession planning for the growth and development of SMEs that contribute significantly to economic growth.

Factors Influencing Family Business Continuity in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Risk management and success in projects are highly intertwined – better approaches to project risk management tend to increase chances of project success in terms of achieving scope & quality, schedule and cost targets. The process of responding to risk factors during a project’s life cycle is a crucial aspect of risk management referred to as risk response strategies, in this paper. The current research explores the status of risk response strategies applied in the software development projects in India. India provides a young IT-savvy English-speaking population, which is also cost effective. Other than the workforce, the environment for implementation of software projects in India is different from the matured economies. Risk management process is a commonly discussed theme, though its implementation in practice has a huge scope for improvement in India. The paper talks about four fundamental treatments to risk response – Avoidance, Transference, Mitigation and Acceptance (ATMA). From a primary data of 302 project managers, the paper attempts to address the risk response factors that lead to successful achievement of project scope & quality, schedule and cost targets, by using a series of regressions followed with Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations (SURE) modelling. Mitigation emerged as the most significant risk response strategy to achieve project targets. Acceptance, transference, and avoidance of risk were mostly manifested in the forms of transparency in communication across stakeholders, careful study of the nature of risks and close coordination between project team, customers/end-users and top management.

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An Assessment of risk response strategies practiced in software projects

Considerable research has been done on the issue of succession in family businesses. However the process of induction, of preparing the members of the next generation for joining the family business has not been examined in detail. This paper attempts to analyse the relevance of three critical factors – ‘quality of relations’, ‘willingness of the inductee’ and ‘the ability to manage tensions harmoniously’ - to the induction process and the progress of the business. It focuses on the Indian context, specifically in the Small and medium Enterprise (SME) area. Qualitative research has been carried out. The Case Study method is used and data has been gathered from two families (including two branches of one family), using frequent unstructured interviews, over a period of five years. It is concluded that positive impact on business, family and the inductee depends to a large extent on the quality of relations, willingness of the inductee and the ability of both the inductor and inductee to handle and manage the tensions. Thus the findings of the study extend current understanding about succession drivers to the specific context of eastern cultural and developing economy represented by the Indian family businesses in the small and medium enterprise sector.

https://www.koreascience.or.kr:443/article/JAKO201716463831082.pdf

Debasis Mallik

Papers

E-Learning as a Socio-Technical System: An Insight into Factors Influencing its Effectiveness

A Framework for Communities of Practice in Learning Organizations

Factors Influencing Family Business Continuity in Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

An Assessment of risk response strategies practiced in software projects

The Role of Quality of Relations in Succession Planning of Family Businesses in India