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Part 2: What Issues Do Those Developing New Educational Management Information System Face? ; International audience ; Knowledge management is important to both business and government organisations as a means of improving their operations. This research project investigated cultural factors affecting knowledge management in higher education administrative departments in Malaysia. It considered strategic decisions made by university administrations and adoption decisions made by individual staff members. As the study was conducted in the South-East Asia region, organisational culture in this region is important. The paper describes the factors found to affect the practice of knowledge management in higher education in Malaysia.

The objective of the present investigation is to describe the social impacts of the administration of knowledge in the social development of a municipality, specifically in the case of Florence, Cuba. The methodology used is that of case study and the techniques are interviews with key informants and the revision of documents. Some of the main results are that the university administration of knowledge has an increasing influence in the decision-making process at the government level; the mediator instrument is the strategy of local development, with its programs that stem from the same strategy and from the main priorities of the same strategy, municipal energy administration, local production of materials of construction and production of foods; each of these levels has its own system of indicators. There are tangible advances in governmental demands to different institutions of education, the use of external and internal networks, events like that of the social sciences of the mountain and the Filial Universitaria Municipal and the media Ambiente (FUMMA), the existence of a portfolio of projects (investigation and development), and the improvement of the environmental administration with the design of the environmental rules of the municipality. ; El objetivo de la presente investigación es describir los impactos sociales que la gestión del conocimiento ha tenido en el desarrollo social de un municipio, específicamente en el caso de Florencia, Cuba. La metodología utilizada es la de estudio de caso y se emplearon como técnicas la entrevista a informantes clave y la revisión de documentos. Entre los principales resultados obtenidos en el presente trabajo se encuentran: la gestión universitaria del conocimiento influye de forma progresiva en la toma de decisiones a nivel gubernamental; el instrumento mediador es la estrategia de desarrollo local, con sus programas que devienen de la misma y de sus principales prioridades concretadas en sus líneas, gestión energética municipal, producción local de materiales de la construcción y producción de alimentos; cada uno de ellos cuenta con su sistema de indicadores. Existen avances visibles en la realización de demandas gubernamentales a diferentes instituciones del conocimiento, aprovechamiento de redes externas e internas, consolidación de eventos como el de las ciencias sociales de la montaña y la Filial Universitaria Municipal y el Medio Ambiente (FUMMA), presencia de una carpeta de proyectos (investigación y desarrollo) y mejoramiento de la gestión ambiental con el diseño del ordenamiento ambiental del municipio.

El objetivo de la presente investigación es describir los impactos sociales que la gestión del conocimiento ha tenido en el desarrollo social de un municipio, específicamente en el caso de Florencia, Cuba. La metodología utilizada es la de estudio de caso y se emplearon como técnicas la entrevista a informantes clave y la revisión de documentos. Entre los principales resultados obtenidos en el presente trabajo se encuentran: la gestión universitaria del conocimiento influye de forma progresiva en la toma de decisiones a nivel gubernamental; el instrumento mediador es la estrategia de desarrollo local, con sus programas que devienen de la misma y de sus principales prioridades concretadas en sus líneas, gestión energética municipal, producción local de materiales de la construcción y producción de alimentos; cada uno de ellos cuenta con su sistema de indicadores. Existen avances visibles en la realización de demandas gubernamentales a diferentes instituciones del conocimiento, aprovechamiento de redes externas e internas, consolidación de eventos como el de las ciencias sociales de la montaña y la Filial Universitaria Municipal y el Medio Ambiente (FUMMA), presencia de una carpeta de proyectos (investigación y desarrollo) y mejoramiento de la gestión ambiental con el diseño del ordenamiento ambiental del municipio. ; The objective of the present investigation is to describe the social impacts of the administration of knowledge in the social development of a municipality, specifically in the case of Florence, Cuba. The methodology used is that of case study and the techniques are interviews with key informants and the revision of documents. Some of the main results are that the university administration of knowledge has an increasing influence in the decision-making process at the government level; the mediator instrument is the strategy of local development, with its programs that stem from the same strategy and from the main priorities of the same strategy, municipal energy administration, local production of materials of construction and production of foods; each of these levels has its own system of indicators. There are tangible advances in governmental demands to different institutions of education, the use of external and internal networks, events like that of the social sciences of the mountain and the Filial Universitaria Municipal and the media Ambiente (FUMMA), the existence of a portfolio of projects (investigation and development), and the improvement of the environmental administration with the design of the environmental rules of the municipality.

Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The author views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect. He assesses the question of the crisis of the university with respect to issues such as globalization, the information age, the nation state, academic capitalism, cultural politics and changing relationships between research and teaching. Arguing against the notion of the demise of the university, his argument is that in the knowledge society of today a new identity for the university is emerging based on communication and new conceptions of citizenship. It will be essential reading for those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university. Contents: 1. Knowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered. - 2. The University in the Age of Liberal Modernity: Between Cosmopolitanism and Nation State. - 3. The University in Organized Modernity: Capitalism, the State and Citizenship. - 4. The Transformative Project: Democracy, The Counter-culture and Communication. - 5. The Institutionalization of Critique: Intellectuals, the Public Sphere and the University. - 6. Academic Power and Cultural Capital: Bourdieu on Knowledge and the University. - 7. The University and the New Production of Knowledge: From the Producer to the User. - 8. Globalization and Academic Capitalism: The New Knowledge Flows. - 9. The Postmodern University: Deconstructing Knowledge and Institutions. - 10. The New Politics of Knowledge: Culture Wars, Identity and Multiculturalism. - Conclusion: Knowledge, Citizenship and Reflexivity (HoF/text adopted)

In the early 1970s, scholars in several disciplines from the developing countries questioned the transplantation of Western social sciences and asserted the necessity of indigenization. Indigenization represents an attitude regarding the proper direction for the development of a particular discipline in a country. The concept of indigenization, or sinicization, has been discussed by many Chinese social scientists. The author explores the indigenization of public administration knowledge in Taiwan. (DÜI-Sen)

Assisted living, the fastest growing residential option, burst upon the American landscape in the late 1980's. These facilities serve persons who no longer are able to live independently and need help with the activities of daily living, but do not need 24-hour nursing care. James Allen has updated and refined this second edition of Assisted Living Administration to include new information on the Senate Aging Taskforce report of 2003, and the financial shape of the industry. The volume also covers resident care issues, aging theories, as well as new industry data. This volume is intended as a