| Abstract [eng] |
The review of the scientific works submitted for habilitation analyzes the most important results of the scientific research conducted by Zenona Ona Atkočiūnienė in 1999 – 2009. Processes taking place on a global scale, knowledge-based economic challenges encourage transformations of management paradigms. A new management input – knowledge management – undergoes formation. The essence of such management is the use, maintenance, administration and improvement of intangible resources, formation and enlargement of intellectual capital, seeking to gain competitive advantage. When investigating transformations of management models, conditioned by challenges of knowledge society and knowledge economy, business advantages and shortcomings may be identified and the fields of development of organizations’ critical strategic advantage may be set out. The integrity of information and knowledge management is reasoned by interlink between the objects (information and knowledge) denoting the essence and specific features of information and knowledge as management functions as well as social phenomena. The purpose of research: to investigate, evaluate and summarize theoretical aspects of information and knowledge management, and, taking into consideration environmental changes and intercultural differences of organizations, to disclose the content and trends of their practical application in organizations. The tasks of research: • To define changes of information management activities determined by the expression of knowledge-based economy; • To investigate an impact of information and knowledge management on the competitive advantage of organizations; • To determine the aspects of appraisal of organizational knowledge and practical benefit; • To examine the situation of knowledge management in organizations in the international context and to carry out the analysis of the obtained results; • To investigate and summarize theoretical aspects of the management of information resources and to prepare an all-round model of the management of information resources; • To summarize the marketing strategies applied in information activities and to substantiate the methodology of market demands for information. The principal results of research: • A study prepared by the group of authors about the management of information and knowledge in business organizations (the input of Zenona Ona Atkočiūnienė – 12 author’s sheets) is expected to become useful not only in enhancing the perception and competences of the top brass in the sphere of information and knowledge management, but also in applying information management paradigms in practical activities of organizations. • An impact of information and knowledge on the competitive advantage of a business organization has been investigated and summarized, taking into consideration the manifestations of environmental changes; it has been established that at the organizational level, through application of knowledge management measures and types, intellectual knowledge of employees is converted to a harmonious competitive advantage. • Internal research has been carried out (Lithuanian and Dutch business organizations) with the aim to evaluate a meaning the organizations assign to knowledge and knowledge management and how such assigning influences practical application of knowledge management in the intercultural context. • The systems of evaluation of practical application of knowledge management have been analyzed and the aspects of a benefit the knowledge management provides have been investigated. • The aspects of management of information resources in organizations have been investigated and summarized, and an all-round model of investigation of information resources in an organization has been prepared. • The particularity of application of marketing strategies when rendering information-related services has been assessed, the problems have been pointed out and the trends of activities of information production marketing have been designed; a methodology of investigation of market demands for information, aspects of application of expert methods have been grounded: selection of the number of experts and expert groups; principles of designing questionnaires. • The study of science communication has been conducted with the purpose to find out models of distribution of the moral rights of authors writing in the scientific journals financed with the funds of the state budget; the attitude of editors-in-chief of the scientific journals financed with the funds of the state budget towards electronic scientific journals; evaluation of accessibility of such journals; publication of scientific works (articles) in journals of open access; the situation of scientific journals in Lithuania (evaluation of the quantity and funding of journals). |
