Zdenka Zenko

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Molde University College

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Kansas State University

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University of Leeds

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Universidade Federal do Ceará

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Knowledge transfer for innovativeness in family businesses

Serbian Journal of Management

Family businesses (FB) are important in the most of national economies. We explored whether succe... more Family businesses (FB) are important in the most of national economies. We explored whether successors' innovativeness is positively associated with the transfer of the founders' innovativeness through knowledge transfer and creation processes in a form of the internal transfer of founders' tacit and experiential knowledge and skills and with the external transfer of knowledge, when potential successors attend educational programs, external training, or gain working experience in other companies. Our research reveals that when the actual forms of internal knowledge transfer are discussed, the positive correlations exist between innovativeness of successors and their early inclusion into FB, apprenticeship, inclusion of successors into meetings with business partners and strategic planning before they get involved in FB. Our survey partially confirmed that regarding external transfer of knowledge, working experiences of successors in other companies and participation in a...

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Teaching Methods to Support Creative Environment

Proceedings of the 1ST International Scientific Conference »Teaching Methods for Economics and Business Sciences«, 2017

Teaching is a challenging but also a rewarding profession. It is underpinned by one key question:... more Teaching is a challenging but also a rewarding profession. It is underpinned by one key question: how do we build a good teaching and learning environment so that our students can acquire professional competences which will enable them to be successful in today's global business environment. These proceedings include the papers presented at the 1 st International Scientific Conference »Teaching Methods for Economics and Business Sciences« held on 8 May 2017 at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business. The papers address students' learning outcomes, the development and measurement of students' professional and transversal competences and skills, creative teaching and learning techniques such as brainstorming and creative problem solving, active learning and collaborative learning, students' self-assessment of their learning, experiential learning and lifelong learning, practical teaching methods such as business simulations, action-based learning and knowledge integration, innovations and sustainability of different teaching methods, non-formal learning and teaching activities for vocational competences development, ethical aspects of creating a good student environment, capacity building, students' learning styles, teaching styles, students' creativeness, and, last but not least, students' academic success and their personal wellbeing. These papers provide valuable insights into academic teaching practice and contribute to the answer to the above question.

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Private forest owner willingness to mobilise wood from dense, small-diameter tree stands

Forest Policy and Economics

Corporate Social Responsibility Considered With Two Systems Theories: A Case from Serbia

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes one of the prerequisites for success of contemporar... more Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes one of the prerequisites for success of contemporary organizations aimed at humankind’s survival by sustainable development. As SR behavior can generate significant benefits, more and more organizations are developing SR strategic plans and implementing SR initiatives. In ISO 26000, CSR has three basic concepts: Responsibility for one’s influences over society, interdependence and holistic approach. Therefore, authors focus on systemic approach to CSR. The purpose is to demonstrate how combined use of appropriate systems theories can help dealing with CSR. Accordingly, Dialectical Systems Theory (DST) and System Dynamics (SD), as relevant systems theories, i.e. methodologies stemming from different systemic paradigms, were selected. DST helped to identify some relevant aspects and components of CSR which were empirically tested in businesses in the Republic of Serbia. Hence, the following factors, i.e. groups of SR activities are selecte...

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Social Responsibility - Range of Perspectives per Topics and Countries

Complexity in Management of Inventions to Innovations

Peta faza razvoja podlag za konkurenčnost - nov položaj visokega šolstva

Mednarodno inovativno poslovanje = Journal of Innovative Business and Management, 2010

An Information-Based View at the 'Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: a Renewed EU Strategy 2011-2014 for the Corporate Social Responsibility' (EU 2011)

IDIMT, 2012

Uspešno uveljavljanje (=difuzija) SICRIS kot novosti v praksi

Promotion of social responsibility - invention aimed to become innovation by systemic behavior

Social responsibility will be in this paper presented as an act of influencing the people in powe... more Social responsibility will be in this paper presented as an act of influencing the people in power to strive for honesty, justice and good of the whole society. To overcome the current crises the behavior of modern management and political practice needs to be changed after dominance of the neoliberal economic theory. Even in the democratic systems the influential people are often more concerned with what they should do to get adequate support from other political players and to stay in power. This is also one of the reasons why citizens are often concerned, whether the decisions made by the influential people were really the best ones for the society, nature. More attention should be given to the preparation of reliable data and the most important views or bases for decision-making and long term effects on society in their decision making processes.

Odprto inoviranje" namesto "zaprtega inoviranja

Naše Gospodarstvo, 2009

Model inoviranja, po katerem mora vse teci in ostati 'pri nas', se imenuje zaprto inovira... more Model inoviranja, po katerem mora vse teci in ostati 'pri nas', se imenuje zaprto inoviranje. Postaja vse bolj zastarel. V sodobnih razmerah je strokovnjakov veliko in so povsod, ne le 'pri nas'. Zato se uveljavlja model "odprto inoviranje". To spreminja naloge menedžerjev in njihove osrednje sposobnosti. Prispevek jih opredeli, prikaže razlike med zaprtim in odprtim inoviranjem ter model prehoda iz zaprtega v odprto inoviranje.

Od ustvarjalnosti do inovacije vodi dolg in zapleten proces

The process of creating an economy and society supportive of innovation in CEEC : a comparative view of Slovenia

Poučevanje teorije sistemov kot prispevek za pot v inovativno družbo

Inoviranja je premalo, ker vplivni ljudje premalo uporabljajo sistemsko - potrebno in zadosti cel... more Inoviranja je premalo, ker vplivni ljudje premalo uporabljajo sistemsko - potrebno in zadosti celovito vedenje, da bi dosegli potrebno in zadostno celovitost razumevanja problemov, ukrepov in posledic. Bolje bi bilo kombinirati njihovo nujno ozko specializacijo s sistemsko teorijo. Nekatere vrste sistemskih teorij in kibernetike omogocajo boljse resevanje tega problema, npr. dialekticna teorija sistemov. Studentje spoznajo vec sistemskih teorij. Prispevek nudi pregled izkusenj s poucevanjem le-teh. Vkljucuje sedanji program predavanj in metode poucevanja.

Individuality, standardisation and intangibles of firms

Standardisation is ousting individuality, especially in technical areas. But, at the same time, i... more Standardisation is ousting individuality, especially in technical areas. But, at the same time, it tranfers it to more subtle areas. In firms individuality depends vitally on characteristics. They are required by their market and make up consistent parts of intangibles (the so-called intellectual capital) and social capital. The firm's individuality provokes different reactions to the business environment (intereset, benevolence, preference, but refusal and hampering, as well). Individuality needs a value system and a high degree of ability to collaborate as a precondition to gain valuable social capital. In confronting environment, which frequently leans upon stereotypes, the firms should care about their individuality by the so-called meta-strategic management.

Preconditions for Requisite Holism of Information Bases for the Invention-Innovation Process Management

IGI Global eBooks, May 21, 2010

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Innovation Management Course for Future Railway Managers in Siberia

Logistics & Sustainable Transport, May 10, 2007

In the current situation managers in organizations of the transitional countries in Central and E... more In the current situation managers in organizations of the transitional countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Slovenia and Russia, need knowledge in innovation management very much to accelerate their organizations’ and countries’ catching-up with their experienced innovation-based international competitors. But they had poor/no chance to learn it in their education. Here we are discussing a short course that we have staged many times in Slovenia and abroad, and have recently tested with future railway managers in Western Siberia. Experience says it is offering some basic insights well enough.

Collaborative Technologies for Knowledge Management: Making the Tacit Explicit?

Proceedings of the 2002 InSITE Conference, 2002

The theory of organisational knowledge creation indicates the distinction between tacit and expli... more The theory of organisational knowledge creation indicates the distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge is extremely important in corporate knowledge management efforts. Additionally, in this context, the sharing of tacit knowledge is considered to be a critical component of successful knowledge management initiatives. This paper explores the value of using collaborative technologies as enablers of knowledge management. It primarily focuses on the conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge through the use of technologies with hyperlinking and hypermedia capabilities. Organisational issues surrounding the capture of tacit knowledge are also introduced by discussing the essential ingredients of successful knowledge management programs.

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Sociocybernetics, what do we think it is?1

The Selected Problem and Viewpoint of our Dealing with it in this Contribution We would like to c... more The Selected Problem and Viewpoint of our Dealing with it in this Contribution We would like to contribute from our (not sociological) education and experience the following provocation for the interested ones concerning the question in the title of our contribution. We felt in Brisbane that a shared opinion on what is sociocybernetics is lacking in the sociocybernetics community. About the Notion of Cybernetics In 1943 the first articles were published on the idea of transferring knowledge from biology into the one of engineering aimed to invent and produce machines capable of imitating human mental activities, some of them at least. Cybernetics was originally created on an interdisciplinary basis: they were trying to make a synergy of knowledge of biology and technology to produce novelties, supposed (and frequently able) to become even innovations (= novelties found beneficial / useful and used by their users / consumers). They were using the word system to denote that they were dealing with a complex and complicated feature as a whole rather than one-sidedly. (See: Umpleby, Vallée, in Mulej et al. 2000) In 1970, on the basis of a contribution by H. von Foerster, the distinction between the 1 st and 2 nd order cybernetics was introduced. The first one was concentrating on the observed object, the second one on the observer and observing as a mutual impact between the observer and the object of observation. This was a revolution in science, because the supposition of a total objectivity of science was given up and replaced with a more realistic one that includes the influential role of the observer. The quite logical next step is an attempt to impact the impacting person, which made room for Umpleby's cybernetics of conceptual systems: there is a mutual impact between the ideas and the society, and the cognition is at the same time a biological and a social feature. Cybernetics has no longer to do only with understanding biology and mastering machines on its basis, including automata, but also with thinking of humans, including specifics of individuals rather than observers in general only. (See: ibidem) Another line of development of cybernetics is much older, and it initially reaches back in 1951 and the work by Robert Vallée. Its modern point is aimed at an explicit synthesis of observation, decision-making and impacting, stressing especially the phase / activity of decision-making. This is the basis for the notion of the 3 rd order cybernetics and epistemo-praxiology. (See: ibidem) Cybernetics, hence, introduced complexity to science/practice concerning making an influence, not complicatedness alone any more, by attracting attention to relations, impacts, hence information, which opened human insight into the previously overseen attributes of reality. It helps humans control their own conditions of life a lot more efficiently and, hopefully, more holistically, too.

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Chances for Systemic Thinking In the Information Society

The so-called information society is one attribute of the modern innovative society. Due to compl... more The so-called information society is one attribute of the modern innovative society. Due to complicatedness and complexity of the modern reality, it requires holistic, i.f. systematic thinking. On the other hand, systems thinking requires a rather holistic information at its basis. On such suppositions, authors discuss relation between information, innovation, and systems thinking, ad their implication for the information aspects of dealing with business and its management. The Selected Problem and Viewpoint The current reality is one of a growing complexity, and the current thinking is one of a growing narrow specialization. The gap between the two aspects of reality requires holism of action to be growing beyond the capacity of individual human beings. Creative co-operation may be a way out, but it requires capacity of: • transdisciplinarity in values and approach, “My profession is essential for the topic under consideration, but it is not the only one essential.” • interdiscipli...

Knowledge transfer for innovativeness in family businesses

Serbian Journal of Management

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Teaching Methods to Support Creative Environment

Proceedings of the 1ST International Scientific Conference »Teaching Methods for Economics and Business Sciences«, 2017

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Private forest owner willingness to mobilise wood from dense, small-diameter tree stands

Forest Policy and Economics

Corporate Social Responsibility Considered With Two Systems Theories: A Case from Serbia

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

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Social Responsibility - Range of Perspectives per Topics and Countries