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Received: 2024-03-18  |  Accepted: 2024-07-02  |  Published: 2024-09-30

Title

Building awareness of the role of knowledge: risks of knowledge for public security and organisations


Abstract

Knowledge leads to wisdom and creates the 'intellectual excellence of organisation'. Building awareness of the role of knowledge is key in the effort to protect knowledge. It includes being aware of the benefits of knowledge and the risks that threaten and devalue it. The paper proposes a simple model of building knowledge awareness in organisations and presents a new classification of security knowledge risks. The empirical part presents a survey's results on a sample of N = 900 Czech and Polish respondents. With the use of Pearson's correlation coefficient, both of the formulated hypotheses were confirmed: (H1) The perception of knowledge benefits for employees as well as organisations and knowledge risks of Czech versus Polish respondents is correlated; (H2) The benefits of appropriate knowledge management, provided to the employees and the organisation, correlate mutually. The conclusion presents the measures for better use and protect knowledge.


Keywords

knowledge management, risks and threats, awareness, model, public security, security of organizations


JEL classifications

M12


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/1217


DOI


Pages

51-68


Funding

This research was funded by Slovak cultural and educational grant agency KEGA, grant 019ŽU-4/2023 Innovative mathematics learning supported by Open Source and co-financed by the Minister of Science under the “Regional Excellence Initiative” (part of the article prepared by Aneta Sokół). University of Szczecin.

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Authors

Blašková, Martina
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Figurska, Irena
Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Słupsk, Poland https://www.apsl.edu.pl
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Blaško, Rudolf
University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia https://www.uniza.sk
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Sokół, Aneta
University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland http://www.usz.edu.pl
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

12


Number

1


Issue date

September 2024


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

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