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MITTELSTÄDT, René Marcel. Knowledge Management in a Political Context: A Case Study About the Members of the German Bundestag. In Bilgin, M. H., Danis, H., Demir, E., Mustafa, G. Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics. Vol. 22. Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 93-107. ISBN 978-3-030-94671-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94672-2_6.

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Original name	Knowledge Management in a Political Context: A Case Study About the Members of the German Bundestag
Name in Czech	Management znalostí v politickém kontextu: případová studie o členech německého Bundestagu
Name (in English)	Knowledge Management in a Political Context: A Case Study About the Members of the German Bundestag
Authors	MITTELSTÄDT, René Marcel.
Edition	Cham, Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics. Vol. 22, p. 93-107, 15 pp. 2022.
Publisher	Springer

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Original language	Czech
Type of outcome	Proceedings paper
Field of Study	50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher	Switzerland
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form	printed version "print"
WWW	URL
Organization unit	University of Finance and Administration
ISBN	978-3-030-94671-5
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94672-2_6
Keywords (in Czech)	krizový management, data, znalostní management, poslanci, tvorba politik
Keywords in English	crisis management; data; knowledge management; Members of Parliament; policymaking
Tags	AR 2023-2024, xD2
Changed by	Changed by: Mgr. Jitka Štruncová, učo 38491. Changed: 10/6/2024 09:56.

Abstract
This paper investigates how Members of the German Bundestag manage their individual knowledge relevant for policy-making, using original data collected in a standardized quantitative online-survey in early 2021. About five per cent of the 709 Members of Parliament from all seven parties currently represented responded, granting a first insight into a western parliament. The main points of the survey dealt with the prior knowledge of the MPs, their familiarization phase, the support from the parties and the parliamentary administration and the organization of the MPs' offices. The results support earlier research which stated that knowledge in parliaments tends to be tacit, informal and not recorded. Only 37 percent of the MPs felt well prepared for their future tasks when they took office. Only 25 percent received an orderly handover by their predecessor. Accordingly, 97 percent of those questioned agreed with the thesis that loss of knowledge within parliament is a major problem. I conclude that knowledge is not systematically archived and evaluated in current politics. This is a disadvantage, especially for inexperienced MPs. Building on this, I discuss a first proposal for a political knowledge management model.

Abstract

This paper investigates how Members of the German Bundestag manage their individual knowledge relevant for policy-making, using original data collected in a standardized quantitative online-survey in early 2021. About five per cent of the 709 Members of Parliament from all seven parties currently represented responded, granting a first insight into a western parliament. The main points of the survey dealt with the prior knowledge of the MPs, their familiarization phase, the support from the parties and the parliamentary administration and the organization of the MPs' offices. The results support earlier research which stated that knowledge in parliaments tends to be tacit, informal and not recorded. Only 37 percent of the MPs felt well prepared for their future tasks when they took office. Only 25 percent received an orderly handover by their predecessor. Accordingly, 97 percent of those questioned agreed with the thesis that loss of knowledge within parliament is a major problem. I conclude that knowledge is not systematically archived and evaluated in current politics. This is a disadvantage, especially for inexperienced MPs. Building on this, I discuss a first proposal for a political knowledge management model.

Abstract (in English)
This paper investigates how Members of the German Bundestag manage their individual knowledge relevant for policy-making, using original data collected in a standardized quantitative online-survey in early 2021. About five per cent of the 709 Members of Parliament from all seven parties currently represented responded, granting a first insight into a western parliament. The main points of the survey dealt with the prior knowledge of the MPs, their familiarization phase, the support from the parties and the parliamentary administration and the organization of the MPs' offices. The results support earlier research which stated that knowledge in parliaments tends to be tacit, informal and not recorded. Only 37 percent of the MPs felt well prepared for their future tasks when they took office. Only 25 percent received an orderly handover by their predecessor. Accordingly, 97 percent of those questioned agreed with the thesis that loss of knowledge within parliament is a major problem. I conclude that knowledge is not systematically archived and evaluated in current politics. This is a disadvantage, especially for inexperienced MPs. Building on this, I discuss a first proposal for a political knowledge management model.

Abstract (in English)