Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology

Modern and advanced organizations in today’s world are influenced by various changes. One of these changes is impact of information technology applications and programs. This phenomenon is becoming increasingly popular and today’s big, medium and small companies have to deal with changes of the new era and modern technology.

One important reason is achieving competitive advantages, better control of information, and significant savings on operating costs. Institutions and companies that do not accept, or avoid the adoption and implementation of information technology in business, in most cases, are not ready for market race, or they must be expressed in differentiated and expensive service or product that is not dependent on information technologies.

Lately, many companies referred to the so-called ERP solutions, which is an acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning. The purpose of these solutions is to cover the entire business of the company through the offered modules. In this way, the company implements a unique business solution that shows insight into the entire business, achieves excellent control of operations, and uses the existing data, in order to make crucial decisions. ERP solution, called SAP, is a famous one among the top ten vendors of business software.

The demand for human resources that are capable of adjusting to modern trends and operating in SAP solution is huge. However, the purpose of this paper is to explain the importance of human capital in soft computing in general. In this paper, we are analyzing soft computing model: SAP and the role of human capital in it.

  Human Resources in SAP (669.4 KiB, 2,064 hits)

Tacit knowledge is an organizational resource that is difficult to cultivate. It requires that responsible agents in the organization take an active role in encouraging trust and the development of relationships where individuals feel that their voice will be heard and that there will be a benefit from them passing knowledge onto someone else. In knowledge work tacit knowledge is especially important.
This research found that servant leadership is an important factor in influencing tacit knowledge sharing, however leader-member exchange is a factor that will strongly support the sharing of tacit knowledge.
If there is a dearth in servant leadership, then leader-member exchange quality is able to act as an influencer of tacit knowledge sharing. This indicates the conclusion that while servant leadership has its virtues, it is possible that other leadership constructs will be useful in encouraging tacit knowledge sharing.

  In Service for Sharing: Leadership and Leader - Follower Relationship Factors as Influencers of Tacit Knowledge Sharing in the IT Industry (932.2 KiB, 2,099 hits)

Tourism has a basic role within economy but also within a country and within the human social assembly. In the course of time, tourism services have become the key component of tourism activity, therefore a detailed attention has been provided to the units supplying tourism services, but especially to hotels and factors that can influence competitiveness of these units.

One of the characteristic elements that contribute to getting the competitive advantage is represented by information technologies. Therefore, this paper has as general scope, presentation of the main factors that define information technology in hotels in Mures County and distribution of hotels according with implementation of information technology. On this line, I have used enquiry as the research method, and questionnaire as a working tool, this being administered to all the hotel managers in Mures County.

The study results are highly important for theoreticians and practitioners as well, allowing the achievement of a frame related to the development way of information technologies in hotels.

  An Empirical Research Regarding Information Technology in Hospitality Industry: A Case Study from Mures County (367.8 KiB, 4,874 hits)