@article{pawlowski2025knowledge,
  title = {Knowledge Bases Created for Discovering Business Opportunities: Empirical Results from Polish Enterprises},
  author = {Krystian PAWLOWSKI},
  year = 2025,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/p-articles/46ISM/2025/4629625/},
  journal = {Communications of International Proceedings},
  volume = 2025 (29),
  doi = doi.org/10.5171/2025.4629625,
  abstract = {Purpose - Business knowledge bases are created for the purpose of preparing decisions at different levels of management: strategic, tactical and operational. The key area of interest in this article are strategic knowledge bases created for the discovery and creation of business opportunities (opportunities are a specific conjunction of chances, company potential and business goals). An important research goal in this article is to search for the answer to the question: whether and to what extent companies create such bases, and how they use them.
Methodology/approach -These questions are a part of a wider research project on Industry 4.0 and business opportunity theory, conducted at the Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology. The 2024-25 survey was conducted in Poland, covering 300 industrial enterprises in 19 industries, including 60 large enterprises and 240 medium-sized enterprises. The respondents were board members and managing directors of companies and were invited to respond on a 1–5 (Likert) scale. Furthermore, the data was partially processed using the Spearman's rank correlation test (Statistica 13.3).
Findings - The results of the survey indicated that there is a correlation between increased availability of data and information and contribute to accelerating entry into new sectors, new domestic markets and new foreign markets.},
  keywords = {knowledge management, knowledge base, opportunity, opportunity discovery, opportunity management},
  note = Article ID: 4629625
}