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Impacts of the Implementation of a Project Management Information System – a Case Study of a Small R&D Company

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Borštnar M. K., Pucihar A.

Organizacija

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2014

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vol. 47

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issue 1

14-23

EN

Background: The problems of resources management (human, financial, time) in multi-project companies are inherently complex and need to be addressed systematically, in both small and large organizations. Furthermore, there is a need for transparent communication and collaboration within the organization as well as with partnering organizations. There are many methodologies and tools supporting project management, which are themselves complex and are therefore not widely adopted, especially among small companies. Objectives: The aim of this paper is to analyse impact of the implementation of a flexible cloud-based project management information system (PMIS) from the human resources, financial management, and collaboration points of view. Method: We have conducted a case study in a small Slovenian research and development company, that has implemented the 4PM PMIS. Results: The findings imply the importance of keeping the balance of the creative processes that are unstructured, rule free and even chaotic, with structured processes monitor and control. Conclusions: The results of the study suggest that the use of “4PM” in support of multi-project management improves human resources and financial management in a collaborative and transparent way when implemented in an open and highly motivated environment

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Developments in public sector financial management in Estonia

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Tikk J., Almann A.

Business and Economic Horizons

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2011

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vol. 5

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issue 2

47-56

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Systems approach, contingency theory, modeling and interviewing are used to research whether the integration of the financial accounting and budget systems that are based on different accounting principles into a balanced overall system will increase the efficiency of financial management and will provide more ways of management in Estonian public organizations. The integration of the systems will create a semantically and organizationally interacting information system for a midterm period, which could be used at all managerial levels in all organizations in real time by developing the information technological infrastructure in Estonia. As feedback, control authorities impart information about the deviations between the objectives of the information and the attainments to the decision-makers, which will enable the decision-makers to make corrections and improve the quality of decisions

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Business Trends and Tendencies in Organization Design and Work Design Practice: Identifying Cause-and-Effect Relationships

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Hernaus T.

Business Systems Research Journal

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2011

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vol. 2

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issue 1

4-16

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Current global business environment has a strong impact on theory and practice of organizations, as well as on working behavior of their employees. Increased complexity and competitiveness is changing settled ways of organizing and working. The ultimate search for the holy grail of achieving organizational effectiveness through better design solutions is gaining momentum. There are many possible areas and means for improvement. Great opportunities emerge from better understanding of contemporary organization and work environment. To seize them, the link between organization design and work design tendencies will be emphasized. Through an in-depth theoretical research on current business trends and their impact on the changing nature of work in organizations, potentially very strong patterns between these two different environmental categories and levels of analysis will be identified. Our extensive analysis of current trends and tendencies in organization design and work design field will provide useful insights for business practitioners and researchers.

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Systems Approach to Standardisation, Classification and Modelling of Managed Events for Tourism

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Jakulin T. J., Golob A.

Organizacija

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2015

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vol. 48

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issue 3

188-197

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Background and Purpose: The standardisation and classification of managed events provide a legislative basis to distinguish events managed for tourism in their characteristics and quality. The systems approach to standardisation and classification of managed events is a unique, holistic view of event management quality and event organization in tourism. It enables a clear overview of a researched topic and provides adequate support to design and decision-making. In this paper, we explain the meaning of standardisation and classification for Slovenian legislation related to event management. We present the importance of a systems approach methodology for event categorization and classification as it relates to the quality of event management organization, the quality of staff, the quality of the event program and the quality of event services. Objectives: Provide an overview of events in tourism, related definitions and information gathered from scientific authors, which serves as current systems approach principles with which we want to achieve the desired results, positive changes in legislation; in our case-in the field of managed event quality for tourism through standardisation and classification of events on the national level in Slovenia. Method: A descriptive method and systems approach methods are fundamental methodological principles in our analysis. In the context of a systems approach, we used qualitative modelling and constructed causal loop models (CLD) of the legislative system of events and investments in the events. We also used context-dependent modelling (SD model) in a frame of systems dynamics. Results: We present the most appropriate solution to eliminate our problem or question about how to achieve high quality and unique events within event tourism and with event management, thereby creating added value to an event legislative system. We explain suggestions for achieving triple-bottom elements through well-designed quality standards and classification of events, which leads to an optimal categorization of events. Conclusion: From a systems point of view, event tourism processes, including event management, are systems consisting of people and technologies with the purpose of designing, producing, trading and deploying the idea of an event. It is necessary to transform the current Slovenian legislative system of events and prepare a document which standardizes and classifies events based on systems approach methodology.

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Response of Central European Civil Security Systems to the Economic Crisis

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Brázová V. K.

Central European Journal of Public Policy

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2015

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vol. 9

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issue 2

142-152

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The public sector across Europe and elsewhere was affected by the economic crisis which fully unfolded in 2008. Considerable attention has been paid in the literature to the impacts of related budgetary cuts on social welfare, while some other areas remain largely under-researched. One of such areas is the so-called civil security, where no such endeavour has been attempted so far. In order to fill this gap, the paper examines the civil security systems of Central European countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary), employing a qualitative comparative analysis. Taking on the systems perspective, the article inquires how the stress posed by the economic crisis affected the civil security systems - their structure and financing. The paper builds on the findings from a 7th FP project, “ANVIL”, within which data on civil protection and disaster management systems were collected.

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Application of a Systems Approach to Studying Global Socio-Economic Inequality

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Mesjasz C., Mesjasz L.

Argumenta Oeconomica Cracoviensia

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2019

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issue 2(21)

43-59

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Ideas drawn from broadly-defined systems thinking, including complex systems studies, have already been used to describe and explain social and economic inequality at various levels of the societal hierarchy, beginning with individuals and ending on the global scale. Bearing in mind the studies on economic and social inequality, the following research question can be asked: What are the universal, systemic characteristics of socio-economic inequality on the global scale? How could a systems approach, including complex systems studies, be helpful in studying socio-economic inequality on the global scale? As a point of departure in the literature survey, two conjectures are formulated and discussed. First, socio-economic inequality constitutes an inherent part of developed societies on the global scale and affects regions, countries, social groups, and individuals. Second, a systems approach, and complex systems studies in particular, can be helpful in analyses of socio-economic inequality by helping to identify causal relations. This concerns, in particular, the theory of hierarchical systems and the Power Law.

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Koncepcje zaczerpnięte z podejścia systemowego, a w szczególności studia nad systemami złożonymi, były już wykorzystywane do opisu i wyjaśnienia przyczyn narastania nierówności na różnych poziomach hierarchii systemów społecznych, od jednostek po nierówności w skali globalnej. Biorąc pod uwagę wyniki badań nad nierównością społeczną i ekonomiczną, można zadać następujące pytanie: w jaki sposób podejście systemowe, obejmujące studia nad systemami złożonymi może być pomocne w badaniu nierówności społecznych i ekonomicznych w skali globalnej? Jako punkt wyjścia badań zostały przedstawione dwa przypuszczenia. Po pierwsze, nierówności społeczno-ekonomiczne w skali globalnej stanowią nieodłączną cechę współczesnego globalnego społeczeństwa i dotyczą regionów, krajów, grup społecznych i jednostek. Po drugie, podejście systemowe, w tym w szczególności badania systemów złożonych, mogą być wykorzystane w badaniu tych nierówności. Dotyczy to zwłaszcza wykorzystania systemów hierarchicznych oraz prawa potęgowego (prawa skalowania).

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МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ГОТОВНОСТІ ВЧИТЕЛЯ МАТЕМАТИКИ ДО ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ЗАСОБІВ КОМП’ЮТЕРНОЇ ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЇ МАТЕМАТИЧНИХ ЗНАНЬ

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Олена С.

Педагогічні науки: теорія, історія, інноваційні технології

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2017

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issue 2(66)

131-141

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The aim of the article. The article reveals the question of determination of methodological basis of forming of professional readiness of the future mathematics teachers to the use of the tools of computer visualization of mathematical knowledge. Research methods: theoretical (analysis and systematization of philosophical, pedagogical and psychological literature, works of the local and foreign authors, legal documents, teaching materials) and empirical (research and compilation of the national and international teaching experience, observation, introspection) with the help of which effective approaches to teacher training in mathematics are defined. Results. Methodological bases of formation of professional readiness of mathematics teachers to use TCVMK reflect the relationship and interaction of different approaches of general scientific and specifically-scientific methodology in the context of formation of professional readiness of the mathematics teachers for the use of mathematical knowledge computer visualizationtools. Among the existing approaches to preparing teachers of mathematics in the context of formation of their professional readiness to use mathematical knowledge computer visualization tools the author has identified systems approach, activity approach, competence approach, integrated approach and acmeological approach. Conclusions. The systems approach ensures the integrity of the educational process which is characterized by hierarchy and continuity; using of integrated approach promotes the emergence of a new quality of knowledge of informatics and mathematic and technological skills; competence approach is important from the standpoint of practice learning; activity approach ensures activity skills; acmeological approach provides further reflection of our activity and professional activities of colleagues with orientation on individual self-improvement and self-development. The perspectives of further research. The further researches will be directed at defining principles of forming the professional readiness to use computer visualization tools of mathematical knowledge.

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Systems approach as a tool for effective management of investment projects

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Bilonog T.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uczelni Warszawskiej im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie

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2013

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issue 1(39)

101-108

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The article grounds necessity of applying the system approach at the management of investment projects of industrial enterprises. Development process of investment management of the enterprise is solved.

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Artykuł wskazuje na konieczność zastosowania podejścia systemowego w zarządzaniu projektami inwestycyjnymi przedsiębiorstw przemysłowych i rozwiązuje problem rozwoju zarządzania projektami inwestycyjnymi w przedsiębiorstwie.

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Where Disciplines Meet

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Koźmiński A. K.

Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem

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2020

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vol. 12

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issue 2

9-19

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Pod koniec pierwszego ćwierćwiecza XXI w. rzucają się w oczy narastające dysfunkcje i patologie wielkich systemów oraz ich elementów, a zarazem, za pośrednictwem wszechobecnych związków i zależności wzajemnych, całych mgławic mniejszych podmiotów łącznie z rodzinami i mini firmami. Autor stawia pytanie, czy nie należałoby powrócić do niektórych założeń, instrumentów i metod podejścia systemowego z lat 50., 60. i 70. XX w., które według zamierzeń jego twórców miało umożliwiać uzdrawianie wielkich systemów. Czy osiągnięcia badawcze ostatnich dziesięcioleci pozwalają wypełnić te luki poznawcze, które zdecydowały o niepowodzeniach podejścia systemowego w ubiegłym wieku? Owe luki to przede wszystkim społeczne mechanizmy funkcjonowania zorganizowanych systemów. Nie ma najmniejszych wątpliwości, że dokonał się w tym obszarze ogromny postęp głownie dzięki badaniom interdyscyplinarnym i prowadzonym w ramach wyłonionych w ostatnich latach dyscyplin „hybrydowych”, takich jak socjologia i psychologia ekonomiczna, organizacji i zarządzania czy ekonomia behawioralna lub finanse behawioralne, nowoczesna ekonomia polityczna, ale także hybrydowe nauki prawne, takie jak ekonomia, socjologia i polityka prawa, nauki polityczne i analizy strategiczne. Zdaniem Autora potrzebna jest próba swoistej reaktywacji podejścia systemowego w zastosowaniu do diagnostyki i uzdrawiania, czyli przeprojektowywania systemów organizacyjnych, a właściwie dynamicznych powiązań w sieci. Konieczna jest modyfikacja klasycznej procedury analizy systemowej i dostosowanie jej do specyfiki zmiennych układów powiązań sieciowych w XXI wieku.

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As we are nearing the end of the first 25 years of the 21st century. What is increasingly noticeable is the growing dysfunction and pathology of big systems and of their elements, including – given the omnipresent interrelations and interdependencies – entire masses of smaller entities, together with micro- and family businesses. The author asks a question of whether it could be reasonable to consider returning to some of the assumptions, instruments, and methods adopted within the framework of the systems approach from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, which was originally conceived and created to treat big systems. Do the achievements made in the field of research in recent decades make it possible to bridge the cognitive gaps that determined the failure of the systems approach in the past century? These gaps are mainly the social mechanisms of functioning of organised systems. There is absolutely no doubt that we have seen huge progress in this domain, mostly thanks to interdisciplinary research and research conducted in recently-emergent “hybrid” disciplines like economic or organisational sociology and psychology, sociology and psychology of management, behavioural economics, behavioural finance, contemporary political economics, but also hybrid legal sciences such as: economics, sociology, and politics of law, political sciences and strategic analyses. The author argues that we need an attempt of a certain reactivation of the systems approach in the context of diagnostics and treatment, meaning a redesign of entire organisational systems– or dynamic connections in a networked structure, actually. It is necessary to modify the classical procedure of systems analysis and adapt it to the specific nature of the changeable networked structures of the 21st century.

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Financial reporting in the light of the systems approach and social sciences methodology. The conceptual frameworks perspective

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Nowak W. A.

Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości

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2018

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issue 99(155)

41-64

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The keynote topic of this paper encompasses the process of financial reporting seen as a research process in the sense of social sciences methodology, from the perspective of the systems approach. Attention is focused on the cognitive aspect of conceptual frameworks for financial reporting. The paper aims to examine whether a conceptual framework can be a theory for financial reporting. The research method is based on a foundational approach under the qualitative research method, encompassing descriptive and analytic approaches. There are two basic hypotheses: (a) a conceptual framework for financial reporting represents the systemic aspect of an economic entity and its social component, and (b) the conceptaul framework for financial reporting defines an irreplaycable way of doing this, indicating that a unit of the medium of exchange (money) must be used for measurement purposes, as an adequate flow of the meduium of exchange is essential to maintain openess of the system, and the usefulness of the representation for shaping that openness depends on the use of that particular unit of measurement. The aim has been successfully performed, and both hypotheses have been positively verified. This gives a new perspective on financial reporting and its conceptual framework, in scientific, social and economic terms.

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Zasadniczym tematem artykułu jest proces sprawozdawczości finansowej, ujmowany z perspektywy podejścia systemów jako proces badawczy w sensie metodologii nauk społecznych. Koncentracja następuje na kognitywnym aspekcie ram konceptualnych sprawozdawczości finansowej. W artykule odkrywa się naukowy aspekt ram konceptualnych sprawozdawczości finansowej oraz określa ich głęboką rolę w systemach działania społecznego, realizujących procesy poznawcze i regulacyjne. Z poznawczego punktu widzenia autor artykułu zmierza do zbadania, czy ramy konceptualne mogą być teorią sprawozdawczości finansowej. Przyjęta metoda bazuje na podejściu fundamentalnym w ramach badań jakościowych, obejmując podejścia deskryptywne i analityczne. Sformułowano dwie hipotezy bazowe: (a) ramy konceptualne sprawozdawczości finansowej służą odwzorowaniu systemowego aspektu podmiotu gospo-darującego oraz jego składnika społecznego, oraz (b) ramy konceptualne sprawozdawczości finansowej określają niezastępowalny sposób tegoż odwzorowania, wskazując, że dla celów pomiaru musi być użyta jednostka medium wymiany (pieniądz), jako że adekwatny przepływ medium wymiany (pieniądza) jest nieodzowny dla utrzymania otwartości systemu, zaś użyteczność odwzorowania dla kształtowania tej otwartości warunkowana jest zastosowaniem tej właśnie jednostki miary. Zamierzony cel został pomyślnie zrealizowany i obydwie hipotezy pozytywnie zweryfikowane. Daje to nową perspektywę spojrzenia na sprawozdawczość finansową i jej ramy konceptualne, zarówno w aspekcie naukowym, jak i społecznym oraz ekonomicznym.

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Impacts of the Implementation of a Project Management Information System – a Case Study of a Small R&D Company

Developments in public sector financial management in Estonia

Business Trends and Tendencies in Organization Design and Work Design Practice: Identifying Cause-and-Effect Relationships

Systems Approach to Standardisation, Classification and Modelling of Managed Events for Tourism

Response of Central European Civil Security Systems to the Economic Crisis

Application of a Systems Approach to Studying Global Socio-Economic Inequality

МЕТОДОЛОГІЧНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО ФОРМУВАННЯ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ГОТОВНОСТІ ВЧИТЕЛЯ МАТЕМАТИКИ ДО ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ЗАСОБІВ КОМП’ЮТЕРНОЇ ВІЗУАЛІЗАЦІЇ МАТЕМАТИЧНИХ ЗНАНЬ

Systems approach as a tool for effective management of investment projects

Where Disciplines Meet

Financial reporting in the light of the systems approach and social sciences methodology. The conceptual frameworks perspective