The focus of this paper is to analyze small and medium enterprises through a knowledge management perspective. More specifically, the aim of the research is to further the understanding through what processes small and medium enterprises operating in the Polish market to create knowledge. Knowledge creation processes are vital to knowledge management initiatives of companies that operate in a changing environment and depend on innovation to gain the competitive advantage. Such processes significantly differ in small and large firms. Therefore, in the following study, a thorough investigation of knowledge creation processes is presented. This research attempts to fulfill the knowledge creation processes gap between small and medium enterprises in the Polish context where traditionally large firms are mainly investigated.

Well-conducted recruitment and selection process is extremely important for the organization, permitting in-depth and objective verification of candidates in terms of meeting employer’s expectations and leads to their employment. Up to now, there has been little research on the impact of e-recruitment on the recruitment process as a whole. The present study fills part of this gap by investigating the effect of e-recruitment on the design of the recruitment process. Therefore, the main purpose of the paper is to analyze how new technology has influenced the recruitment process as a whole. The recruitment process will be presented on the example of ItutorGroup. The paper considers the possibilities of including modern technologies in the recruitment and selection strategies of the organization based on a case study method. The case study describes the project of cooperation of the Work Service personnel consultancy with the international organization ItutorGroup. Its selection and recruitment strategy was based on video-recruitment. The findings indicate that e-recruitment transforms the traditional recruitment process into a time- and space-independent, collaborative hiring process. The most significant changes are recorded in the sequence and increased divisibility of main recruitment tasks. For management, the main task is now that of communicating with candidates. Recruitment and selection strategy based on modern technologies requires an experienced and competent team, two unquestionable benefits are: limiting the length of the process in time and possibility to decrease the costs.

The author of this research offer the hypothesis that university education is the most important condition for the development of an innovation-oriented economy and that the creation of an innovation society requires the modernization of university education. Innovation education has been identified as a key contributor to the enhancement of the innovative behavior of individuals, organizations and economies. It is widely believed that countries' social and economic well-being will depend to an ever greater extent on the quality of their citizens' education: the emergence of the so-called 'knowledge society', the transformation of information and the media, and increasing specialization on the part of organizations, all of which call for high skill profiles and levels of knowledge. This study builds to examines an individual's understanding of the term innovation. By looking at undergraduate and postgraduate students in Poland represented by the Warsaw School of Economics it is hoped to ascertain what role education plays in developing the notion of "innovation" and innovation education with the purpose of assessing it.

Entrepreneurship is often defined as the opportunistic pursuit of economic wealth by limited resources. Governments all over the world undertake many programmes to boost entrepreneurial spirits amongst students -potential entrepreneurs. The benefits gained are significant such as: job creation, innovation and ultimately contribution to national economic wealth. The role and effect of education, including training, on entrepreneurial activities has been a major topic of discussion in the last decade. The term "entrepreneurship education" refers to a holistic approach advocated in place of traditional schooling on the basics of how to run a business. The purpose of this study is to assess how grades obtained by students influence their entrepreneurial attitudes and secondly to assess students' entrepreneurial skills. Paper questionnaires were used to survey students studying at Warsaw School of Economics and Rzeszow University of Technology. The respondents were undergraduate students participating in the general module of Management at Warsaw School of Economics and Statistics Methods at Rzeszow University of Technology. The average grade students obtained during their studies strongly differentiates students plans considering what they are going to do after graduation. The more entrepreneurial students are those with average grade 3.5-3.99 as 19% of them would like to start their business. The best students (with higher grades) are the least entrepreneurial, just 6% of them would be willing to set up a business. This is a signal for educators that enterpreneurial attitudes can not be solely related to education but other factors must be taken into account such as individual predispositions e.g. wilingness to take a risk.

The focus of this paper is to analyze knowledge sharing processes in small and medium enterprises through a knowledge management perspective in order to further the understanding what tools small and medium enterprises operating in the Polish market use to share knowledge. Modern IT tools are used by only 30% of small and medium enterprises. The most often used tool is email, as confirmed by 88% of respondents. Knowledge sharing processes are vital to knowledge management initiatives of companies that operate in a changing environment and depend on innovation to gain a competitive advantage. Previous research on knowledge management in small and medium enterprises has shown many differences compared to larger firms. SMEs tend to place more emphasis on the management of tacit knowledge than larger firms, and communication channels in SMEs are more likely to be between firms, rather than internal to the organization. Therefore in the following study, a thorough investigation of tools for knowledge sharing is presented. This research attempts to fulfill the knowledge sharing processes gap between small and medium enterprises in the Polish context where traditionally large firms are mainly investigated.

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Well-conducted recruitment and selection process is extremely important for the organization, allowing an in-depth and objective verification of candidates in terms of meeting employer's expectations and leads to their employment. The objective of the following work is to present the benefits and disadvantages of adopting video recruitment in the recruitment and selection process. Qualitative research design was considered the most suitable for the purpose of the investigation. The paper considers the possibilities of including video recruitment in the recruitment and selection process. Two unquestionable benefits are: limiting the length of the process in time and a possibility to decrease the costs. In the following paper one of the significant disadvantage of video recruitment was poorly built candidate experience. The recommendation for businesses embarking on developing their e-recruitment activity is to adopt the philosophy of a positive candidate experience and place it at the centre of their e-recruitment strategy. Prahalad and Krishnan (2008) spoke of the importance of the ecosystem and the "ecosystem mindset" that takes a holistic view of the whole e-recruitment network to appreciate the full scope of e-recruitment activity.

Crowdsourcing is an emerging trend and many Websites are dependent on user-generated content (UGC). This study examined the effect of rewards on users' proclivity to add content or acknowledge content on Websites that are based on UGC. The study focused on extrinsic factors that are controlled by the Website management. A survey compared a sample of 100 users of The Traveler (Lametayel.co.il, the Website of a leading Israeli brick-and-mortar chain of outdoor and travelling products) that offered tangible rewards, with a sample of 100 users of Waze (a community-based traffic and navigation application) that offered virtual ones. The main results indicated that tangible rewards were significantly more effective than virtual ones in encouraging users to add content, but virtual rewards had more influence on acknowledging content, although the particular reward mechanism might have affected user behavior. Many of the users were unaware of both the tangible or virtual rewards, and the foremost source of knowledge about the offered rewards was the Website, rather than social media or acquaintances. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.