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SMAQ - A Semantic Model for Analitical Queries
PublicationWhile the Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) becomes an important part of organizational BI solutions there is a great need for new tools allowing to construct ad-hoc queries by users with various responsibilities and skills. The paper presents a Semantic Model for Analytical Queries – SMAQ allowing to construct queries by users familiar with business events and terms, but being unaware of database or data warehouse concepts...
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Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting as Post-pandemic Dangers to Knowledge Management
PublicationPurpose: COVID-19 pandemic aftermaths include the emergence of new tendencies, such as the Quiet Quitting, and continuation of trends such as the Great Resignation, both of which have multiple knowledge-related impacts on individual, organizational and even national level. The aim of this paper is to show the mechanisms behind the Quiet Quitting and the Great Resignation from individual and organizational perspectives. Understanding...
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The Method of Selecting the Interval of Functional Tests Taking into Account Economic Aspects and Legal Requirements
PublicationThe article discusses the problem of choosing the optimal frequency of functional tests, taking into account the reliability and law requirements, but also the impact of business aspects in the company. The subject of functional test interval is well described for purposes of the process industry. Unfortunately, this is not the case for the machinery safety functions with low demand mode. This is followed by a presentation of the...
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CSR education in Poland- current situation and future challenges
PublicationThe importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in nowadays business reality is constantly growing thanks to many factors, including the important promotional effort at all possible authorities levels and increasing educational effort of universities and in particular of business schools. Since there is no commonly accepted guideline/curriculum/content of social responsibility (SR) education, business schools at higher...
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Personal Branding—A New Competency in the Era of the Network Economy. Corporate Brand Performance Implications
PublicationPrimary assets of the network economy are information, network, re-lationships, knowledge, and a virtual environment. The competency of personal branding exercised by knowledge workers, also thought of as knowledge producers, is becoming a natural consequence of the business environment where the significance of hierarchies is constantly decreasing. Knowledge workers are powerful as never be-fore and can exist as separate actors...
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Gendered entrepreneurship and its impact on firm innovativeness - a literature review.
PublicationEntrepreneurs gain a lot of attention in recent decades. Even if a precise definition of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship remains problematic, it is clear that there is a strong link between entrepreneurship and innovativeness, as well as between entrepreneur and innovation. In the current era of globalisation, the importance of innovations is as great as never before. And so is the importance of innovativeness determinants. Investigating...
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Research on entrepreneurship – the forms of entrepreneurship
PublicationThe aim of this article is to present suggestions for future directions of research on entrepreneurship, with particular emphasis on different forms of entrepreneurship. The suggestions are preceded by a brief review of research on entrepreneurship. The article is theoretical in nature and does not present any own research, although its content is based on multiple years of experience in studying this phenomenon. The forms of entrepreneurship...
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Identification, Assessment and Automated Classification of Requirements Engineering Techniques
PublicationSelection of suitable techniques to be used in requirements engineering or business analysis activities is not easy, especially considering the large number of new proposals that emerged in recent years. This paper provides a summary of techniques recommended by major sources recognized by the industry. A universal attribute structure for the description of techniques is proposed and used to describe 33 techniques most frequently...
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Centers of Excellence - initial conception
PublicationIn literature, the most basic definition of centers of excellence is " CoE is a team of people that promote collaboration and use best practices around a specific focus area to drive business result". More broadly, center of excellence is defined as " a premier organization providing an exceptional product or service in an assigned sphere of expertise and within a specific field of technology, business, or government, consistent...
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Obsługa geodezyjna wysokich biurowców w warunkach miejskiej zabudowy
PublicationOpisano prace geodezyjne związane z budową budynków wysokich na przykładzie biurowców "Olivia Business Centre IV" oraz "Neptun" znajdujących się na terenie Gdańska.
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Hey student, are you sharing your knowledge? A cluster typology of knowledge sharing behaviours among students
PublicationKnowledge Sharing (KS) is crucial for all organisations to better face current and future challenges. It is justifiable to assume that after graduation, students will have to face the coming challenges at societal and business levels, and that they will need the adequate KS skills to do so. Though the importance of KS is established, the understanding of how students pass on their knowledge is still fragmented and underdeveloped....
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Improving the production planning and control process
PublicationFocusing the activities of a production business on the strategy based on quality entails orientation on meeting the expectations of the customers with respect to the product itself, and the terms of its delivery. The article notes the role of the production planning and control process in improving the quality of the business offer. It identifies the objectives set for the process from the perspective of meeting the expectations...
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University Students’ Research on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management. A Review and Report of Multi-case Studies
PublicationLeading technologies are very attractive for students preparing their theses as the completion of their studies. Such an orientation of students connected with professional experiences seems to be a crucial motivator in the research in the management and business areas where these technologies condition the development of professional activities. The goal of the paper is the analysis of students’ thesis topics defended in the last...
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Entrepreneurship in Virtual Economy: the Case of Currency One SA
PublicationPurpose: The scientific purpose of the study is an attempted synthesis of interpretation of “the virtual economy” and “the virtual environment” in the Polish and foreign literature on the subject. The cognitive purpose thereof is to offer an identification and a qualitative analysis of the factors that determine the development of e-entrepreneurship using an example of business practice. Methodology: The theoretical basis of the...
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The Cultures of Knowledge Organizations: Knowledge, Learning, Collaboration (KLC)
PublicationThis book focuses on seeing, understanding, and learning to shape an organization’s essential cultures. The book is grounded on a fundamental assumption that every organization has a de facto culture. These “de facto cultures” appear at first glance to be serendipitous, vague, invisible, and unmanaged. An invisible and unrecognized de facto culture can undermine business goals and strategies and lead to business failures. The authors...
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Business continuity management framework for Industry 4.0 companies regarding dependability and security of the ICT and ICS/SCADA system
PublicationThis chapter addresses a business continuity management (BCM) framework for the Industry 4.0 companies including the organizational and technical solutions, regarding the dependability and security of the information and telecommunication technology (ICT), and the industrial control system (ICS) / supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. These technologies and systems play nowadays important roles in modern advanced...
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Determinants of the Internationalization of Family Firms - a Structural Eqquation Modeling Analysis
PublicationCurrently, international behaviors of family businesses (FBs) attract a growing interest of researchers. In an increasingly competitive environment, numerous FBs are forced to expand into foreign markets in search for ways to survive or grow. The article is both theoretical and empirical. In the theoretical part it presents theoretical concepts of FBs internationalization, especially determinants for their going international....
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Integrated Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Evaluation in a Framework for Business Continuity Management
PublicationThis article outlines an integrated functional safety and cybersecurity evaluation approach within a framework for business continuity management (BCM) in energy companies, including those using Industry 4.0 business and technical solutions. In such companies, information and communication technology (ICT), and industrial automation and control system (IACS) play important roles. Using advanced technologies in modern manufacturing...
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DUABI - Business Intelligence Architecture for Dual Perspective Analytics
PublicationA significant expansion of Big Data and NoSQL databases made it necessary to develop new architectures for Business Intelligence systems based on data organized in a non-relational way. There are many novel solutions combining Big Data technologies with Data Warehousing. However, the proposed solutions are often not sufficient enough to meet the increasing business demands, such as low data latency while still maintaining high...
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Multi-Criteria Knowledge-Based Recommender System for Decision Support in Complex Business Processes
PublicationIn this paper, we present a concept of a multi-criteria knowledge-based Recommender System (RS) designed to provide decision support in complex business process (BP) scenarios. The developed approach is based on the knowledge aspects of Stylistic Patterns, Business Sentiment and Decision-Making Logic extracted from the BP unstructured texts. This knowledge serves as an input for a multi-criteria RS algorithm. The output is prediction...
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ICT-enabled circular economy: conceptualising the links
PublicationThis chapter sets conceptual backgrounds regarding the potentially emerging causal links between digital technologies and circular economy ideas implementation. We argue that digital technologies may constitute an effective element enabling the transformation from linear to circular and environmentally friendly economic activities. This work draws the general picture at the macro and micro level. The macro perspective shows how...
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Online brand communities’ contribution to digital business models
PublicationAbstract Purpose – There is limited research examining social drivers and mediators of online brand community identification in the context of business models development. This study aims to identify them behind the social mechanisms and present essential factors which should be applied in business models to foster value co-creation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from a convenience sample of 712 cases gathered among...
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Towards Open Research Data in the Economics Discipline
PublicationNowadays, Open Research Data, as one of the three pillars of Open Science (along with Open Access and Open Scholarly Communication), is gaining enormous attention from different academic and commercial environments. A wide range of scientific disciplines represent and produce different types of data and at the same time, gather different issues and problems in terms of sharing and dissemination research output. This chapter aims...
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State tax policy and reform tools as a risk of running a business. Case study based on Polski Ład – Polish tax reform
PublicationThe aim of the article is to describe and present the Polish tax reform introduced at the beginning of 2022. Tax changes introduced in Poland had a strong impact on the risk of running a business in Poland because in their assumption they directly changed the rules of running a business. Due to the pace of the introduced changes, as well as the scope of the reform, the new tax law was subject to numerous criticisms of taxpayers...
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Action Plan “Women”
PublicationEmployees of a company are not the first alternative coming into one’s mind when searching suitable successor for the business. Those belonging to the company’s management group are in many cases asked for their interest in being a successor, but the lower level an employee is in the hierarchy, the less probably he/she is inquired of his/her interest in becoming a successor. The contemporary entrepreneur may have had conflicts...
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The Perception of an Entrepreneur’s Structural, Relational and Cognitive Social Capital among Young People in Poland - An Exploratory Study
PublicationThe goal of the current paper is to verify how an entrepreneur’s structural, relational and cognitive social capital levels are perceived by young people in Poland. The research involved a group of 374 undergraduate business students from a Polish university as participants. Participants completed a survey on entrepreneurial cognitions. It was found that participants assess the level of an entrepreneur’s social capital as relatively...
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Implementation of Business Intelligence in an IT organization - the concept of an evaluation model
PublicationThis paper presents the issue of assessing the validity and effectiveness of implementing a Business Intelligence system in an IT Support Organization. This entity provides IT services to external clients involving, in particular, the storage and processing of large amounts of data. The vast amount of realized projects and also incidents reported in connection with those projects prevented effective decisions from being made without...
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Sustainable development model for measuring and managing sustainability in the automotive sector
PublicationA growing number of organizations across a variety of industries are now pursuing sustainable management business goals to improve business efficiency, manage stakeholder expectations, or for legislative compliance. This is also the case for automotive manufacturing organizations who are under pressure from their stakeholders to manage and improve sustainability performance. This requires the development of credible measurement...
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Application of Ontology In the ITIL Domain
PublicationBusiness standards tend to be less formal in description then strict technical norms. Authors of this chapter suggest applying ontological description (powered by the capabilities of the OWL language) to express Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). One of the goals of this initial study is to determine the usefulness of such semantic model in organizations that adopted or plan to adopt ITIL.
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Integration and Dependency in Software Lifecycle Based on Jazz Platform
PublicationSoftware delivery organizations are being asked to meet goals that seem mutually exclusive. Teams are asked to increase product quality, accelerate time to market, and meet increasing mandates from regulatory bodies. As software solutions and software development environments become rapidly more complex. Many business drivers compound these challlenges.
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Business processes implementation using agent systems
PublicationThis paper will show that some complex and repetitive actions performed in a company can be modelled for the sake of optimization and automaton. It is achieved by connecting business processes management and agent paradigms. Moreover it shows that organization structure can be mapped to distributed multi agent system. Finally it states that interorganization communication can be automated on the same basis as intra-organization...
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Agile Requirements Prioritization in Practice: Results of an Industrial Survey
PublicationAgile software development stresses the importance of providing the customer with a product of a maximized business value. To achieve that, requirements prioritization is used. Agile development methods like Scrum define guidelines for prioritization, however practitioners do not necessarily have to follow them. Our goal was to investigate the industry practice related to requirements prioritization process, including its timing,...
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High-Level Model for the Design of KPIs for Smart Cities Systems
PublicationThe main goal of the paper is to build a high-level model for the design of KPIs. Currently, the development and processes of cities have been checked by KPI indicators. The authors realized that there is a limited usability of KPIs for both the users and IT specialists who are preparing them. Another observation was that the process of the implementation of Smart Cities systems is very complicated. Due to this the concept of a...
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Towards solving heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with time windows and additional constraints: real use case study
PublicationIn advanced logistic systems, there is a need for a comprehensive optimization of the transport of goods, which would reduce costs. During past decades, several theoretical and practical approaches to solve vehicle routing problems (VRP) were proposed. The problem of optimal fleet management is often transformed to discrete optimization problem that relies on determining the most economical transport routes for a number of vehicles...
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Discovery of Stylistic Patterns in Business Process Textual Descriptions: IT Ticket Case
PublicationGrowing IT complexity and related problems, which are reflected in IT tickets,create a need for new qualitative approaches. The goal isto automate the extraction of main topics described in tickets in order to provide high quality support for the IT process workers and enablea smooth service delivery to the end user. Present paper proposes a method of knowledge extraction in a form of stylistic patterns in business...
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Bariery rozwoju spółek przedsiębiorczości akademickiej
PublicationW opracowaniu przedstawiono zagadnienie przedsiębiorczości akademickiej. Autorzy wyodrębnili i sklasyfikowali kluczowe bariery hamujące rozwój komercjalizacji wiedzy i technologii do świata biznesu, a także ograniczające rozwój przedsiębiorczości akademickiej. Zaprezentowano wyniki badań przeprowadzonych przez Deloitte Business Consulting SA w zakresie ograniczeń wpływających na transfer technologii
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IT Business Standards as an Ontology Domain
PublicationThe aim of this paper is to report a selection of Semantic Web aspects pertaining to ontology development activities in the domain of the IT business standard (TOGAF 9) such as formulating competency questions, conceptualization of the domain, resolution of the source knowledge deficiency and applying common design patterns in the OWL formalization. Authors also try to determine target groups that may benefit from such ontology...
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Bilateral Multi-Issue Negotiation Between Active Documents and Execution Devices
PublicationMobile document-agents are often in conflict with execution devices when attempting to perform activities of the business process they implement, since preferences of device owners may change depending on their current location and the actual class of the device in use. The paper proposes a bilateral negotiation mechanism based on a simple bargaining game that can effectively resolve such conflicts without any third party support.
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Workbook for cooperative development of personnell and organisation for innovation in SME in the Baltic Sea Region
PublicationThis study highlights the potential for cooperative development of personnel and organisational innovations in SMEs and gives an example implemented by the University of Lund together with the Municipality of Astorp and local companies. This innovation field is of particular importance for all companies in the region, since it does apply to any professional sector, be it a service oriented company or a manufacturing business. This...
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High-quality academic teachers in business school. The case of The University of Gdańsk, Poland
PublicationThe Bologna process, the increasing number of higher education institutions, the mass education and the demographic problems make the quality of education and quality of the academic teachers a subject of wide public debate and concern. The aim of the paper is to identify the most preferred characteristics of a teacher working at a business school. The research problem was: What should a high-quality business school academic teacher...
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Biznesplan dla zakładu podstawowej opieki zdrowotnej o rozszerzonej działalności na obszarze dzielnicy Gdańsk-Południe
PublicationIn recent years we have seen the dynamic development of medical services sector in Poland. Private health centres focus on aggressive development strategy. The role of primaryhealth care facilities, which provide services financed from the public funds, declined.The purpose of the article is to present methods of strategic planning which allow toopen new healthcare entity. The next purpose is to make in practice...
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Towards a Framework for Context Awareness Based on Textual Process Data
PublicationContext awareness is critical for the successful execution of processes. In the abundance of business process management (BPM) research, frameworks exclusively devoted to extracting context from textual process data are scarce. With the deluge of textual data and its increasing value for organizations, it be-comes essential to employ relevant text analytics techniques to increase the awareness of business process (BP) workers,...
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Toward a unified model of mobile Business Intelligence (m-BI) acceptance and use
PublicationFactors affecting mobile business intelligence (m-BI) acceptance and use have become an increasingly important topic in practice due to the growing complexity of organizations, and their underlying information systems (IS). Since, one can notice considerable interest in m-BI, however, to the best of our knowledge few studies (if any) aim to synthesize the existing body of knowledge with regards to the factors affecting m-BI acceptance...
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It is not OK but it works – unproductive entrepreneurship, the case of Poland
PublicationThe concept of unproductive entrepreneurs was introduced to science by Baumol, who pointed out the differences in business output between countries. Unproductive behaviour of entrepreneurs is often a consequence of ineffective institutions used by entrepreneurs for rent seeking. The aim of this article is to examine subjective norms (S.N.) and attitudes regarding specified types of unproductive entrepreneurship, which in many cases...
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Managerial Education and Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Students: Is There a Link?
PublicationThe role of entrepreneurship over the last few decades has constantly been growing for a number of reasons. This is accompanied by a growing number of students choosing fields of study where entrepreneurship education is an indispensable part of the curriculum, such as business studies or management. Efficiency of entrepreneurship education, often measured by entrepreneurship intentions revealed by students, is examined in numerous...
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Searching for innovation knowledge: insight into KIBS companies
PublicationThe paper analyses the activity of research for “innovation knowledge”—here defined as knowledge that can lead to the introduction of service innovations—by Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) companies. It proposes a classification of the possible search approaches adopted by those companies based on two dimensions: the pro-activity of search efforts and the source primarily used. Such classification is then discussed...
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Document Agents with the Intelligent Negotiations Capability
PublicationThe paper focus is on augmenting proactive document-agents with built -in intelligence to enable them to recognize execution context provided by devices visited durning the business process, and to reach collaboration agreement despite of their conflicting requirements. We propose a solution based on neural networks to improve simple multi-issue negotiation between the document and the device, practically with no excessive cost...
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The Lighting Designer and New Technologies: Lighting for Enhancing Business in Shops & Restaurants – The Do’s & Don’ts of Retail Lighting
PublicationThis paper will address issues of successful retail lighting schemes to make the audience familiar with the Do’s & Don’ts. It will also look into the details of designing lighting particularly for window displays, external shop signage and outdoor terraces of restaurants. A holistic approach to retail lighting will be presented with case studies of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ lighting solutions, mostly from Europe, to underline the impacts...
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C2 Niwa - The Centre of Competence for Novel Infrastructure of Workable Applications
PublicationScientific and cloud computing are discussed in the paper . The paradigm of EaaS (Everything as a Service) is presented and the design methodology of service oriented applications is proposed. Implementation of the SOSE (Software Oriented Software Engineering) approach is analyzed and the roles of developing teams to obtain software products satisfying business requirements are also shown. The above listed activities create a basic...
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Prywatyzacja przestrzeni publicznych
PublicationArtykuł zawiera przegląd problematyki związanej z kwestią prywatyzacji przestrzeni publicznych, m.in.: genezę procesu, opis charakterystycznych strategii związanych z realizacją przestrzeni ''quasi publicznych'', identyfikacją głównych uczestników tych procesów oraz ich motywacji. Artykuł zawiera także szkicowy opis dwóch przykładów prywatyzacji przestrz. publ. - Bryant Park w Nowym Jorku oraz Business Improvement Districts.