This study discusses management principles which provides computational aid to management including monitoring, analysis and navigation of knowledge creators activities. Firstly, it attempts to identify two management principles based on the Ontological Shift Model, and give three indicators to diagnosis knowledge creation projects.

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Problems such as resource shortage and environment deterioration are serious problem now. Therefore, developing sustainable economy becomes an inescapable choice in global economy. As an important activity, developing sustainable economy, the economic and social value of reverse logistics, has emerged now. This paper focus on the recycle of spare parts obtained from the end of life (here after EOL) automobile, which can replace disabled parts of an automobile. We argue that developing the reverse logistics of automobile spare parts (here after the “replenishment parts”) is an important measure to sustainable economy, either local or national or global economy. Recent year, Chinese government is promoting reverse logistic activities, however, not yet introduced regulations and established a management system for the reverse logistics system of automobile spare parts. Considering China's automobile replacement parts industry mode, the authors attempts to propose a management system for the replenishment parts recycle so that the production, delivery, utilization, recycle and repair become a concrete closed loop supply chain. This system not only conforms to the Extended Producer Responsibility (ERP) policy push forward by the government to the automobile manufacturers, but also can integrate active involvement of major players of Chinese automobile industry.

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In Japan, books and magazines have been distributed under the resale price maintenance and consignment sale systems. At present, the return rate of books and magazines has reached approximately 40 percent of the quantity of publications under the systems mentioned above. This is a severe problem from the viewpoints of both business and environment. For the purpose to solve this problem, a new sale system where wholesale price is reasonable while buyback price is inexpensive has been programmed and practiced. The wholesale and buyback prices are important contract parameters in the transaction program between publisher and bookstore. In this paper, the publishing supply chain consisting of a publisher and a bookstore is formulated as a mathematical model. Then, we have developed a new approach to solve the collaborative sale contract problem with wholesale and buyback prices as contract parameters.

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The environment dominated by emerging uncertainties set a challenge to decision making. Our paper describes a method developed to plan for uncertainty. As the basis for theoretical elaboration we examine ontological uncertainty,the situation where we do not know what we do not know. We describe a method called “Seven Shocks ”planning method and its theoretical framework. The two fundamentals of the method are instrumental usage of extreme events and definition of the portfolio of resilience developing actions.

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Measuring project success is a challenging issue among researchers and practitioners, because of its multidimensional properties. During the last three decades, numerous researchers have tried to define and illustrate its dimensions. But still there is no general agreement about it. To measure and predict success of a project, we need to take into account all project stages including utilization stage of the product of a project in an integrated approach. In this paper we try to introduce a novel model to measure project success considering selection, execution and utilization stages. The model is based on the deviations from the goal of each stages. And the amount of success in this model which we call the “Circles Model”, is the magnitude of proximity to the final goal. We apply it to an example and measure its success quantitatively. Lastly we discuss four extensible directions for future studies to apply the model on high performance projects, multi stakeholders space, program and portfolio domain and finally to explore the inŽuence of the performance of each stage on the performance of the next stages.

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