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Economic Knowledge Optimization In Ukrainian Agrarian Universities: A Knowledge Management Perspective

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  • Oleh Chornyi

    (Marketing and Agrarian Business Department, Management and Law Faculty, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine)

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A university as knowledge-intensive organization is an important actor that has a powerful influence on knowledge-economy formation. Implementation of knowledge management in universities is inevitable by-product of economic grows and improvements in diverse branches of national industry complex. The aim of this paper is to analyze the economic knowledge functioning in Ukrainian agrarian universities. The author uses statistical analysis to measure the number of economic departments and academic disciplines in Ukrainian agrarian universities. The study shows that up to 37,5% of educational departments in Ukrainian agrarian universities consists of economic educational departments. The analysis of economic knowledge functioning in Vinnytsia National Agrarian University showed that within economic educational departments almost 55% belong solely to economic disciplines and almost 30% belong to interdisciplinary economic courses. The author also uses theoretical modeling to show the knowledge environment of the universities. Attention is focused on differentiation between the inner, micro and macro knowledge environments of the universities. The author strongly recommends the use of knowledge management instruments with the aim of improving economic knowledge. Improvement of knowledge flows between an agrarian university and other important stakeholders will allow the optimization of the knowledge infrastructure of the universities, including the structure of economic knowledge. Government bodies, managers of the universities, and heads of university departments should use knowledge management tools on the systemic basis in order to achieve significant organizational results and make progress. Universities should take into consideration the specificity of micro and macro environments. Factors of globalization, new technologies, politics and legislation, economics and finances, society and culture, nature and geography should be examined and included in the information infrastructure of a university. It is clear that macro environment information is already under the consideration of academic governing bodies.

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  • Oleh Chornyi, 2020. "Economic Knowledge Optimization In Ukrainian Agrarian Universities: A Knowledge Management Perspective," Oradea Journal of Business and Economics, University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, vol. 5(1), pages 86-96, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ora:jrojbe:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:86-96
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    Keywords

    knowledge management; knowledge environment; knowledge-intensive organizations; agrarian university; interdisciplinarity.;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • Q19 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Other

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