Handbook of research on knowledge-intensive organizations
"This book encompasses a wide variety of research approaches and theoretical stances,that are united in their contributions to the study of the burgeoning field of knowledge intensive organizations"--Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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Hershey, Pa. :
IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Learning and Innovation
- 1. Are Research Universities Knowledge-Intensive Learning Organizations
- 2. Construction of Knowledge-Intensive Organization in Higher Education
- 3. Collective CPD: Professional Learning in a Law Firm
- 4. Innovation Risks of Outsourcing within Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS)
- 5. Actor-Network Theory and Autopoiesis: A New Perspective on Knowledge Management
- Section 2. The Language of Knowledge
- 6. Sorting the Relationship of Tacit Knowledge to Story and Narrative Knowing
- 7. Exploring Organizational Learning and Knowledge Exchange through Poetry
- 8. Vagueness: The Role of Language in the Organizing Process of Knowledge Intensive Work
- 9. Tyranny of the Eye? The Resurgence of the Proto-Alphabetic Sensibility in Contemporary Electronic Modes of Media (PC/Mobile Telephony); and its Significance for the Status of Knowledge
- Section 3. Managing Knowledge
- 10. Knowledge Management and IT Research and Analysis Firms: Agenda-Setters, Oracles and Judges
- 11. Knowledge Management Strategies Implementation in Innovation Intensive Firms
- 12. Developing a Corporate Knowledge Management Platform in a Multibusiness Company
- 13. Modelling the New Product Development Process: The Value of a Product Development Process Model Approach as a Means for Business Survival in the 21st Century
- Section 4. Management and Control
- 14. Achieving Organizational Independence of Employees' Knowledge using Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, and the Learning Organization
- 15. Balancing Stability and Innovation in Knowledge-Intensive Firms: The Role of Management Control Mechanisms
- 16. The Knowledge-Based Approach to Organizational Measurement: Exploring the Future of Organizational Assessment
- 17. Common Information Spaces in Knowledge-Intensive Work: Representation and Negotiation of Meaning in Computer-Supported Collaboration Rooms
- 18. Creativity and Control in IT Professionals' Communities
- Section 5. The Culture of Knowledge
- 19. A Qualitative Study of Knowledge Management: The Multinational Firm Point of View
- 20. Culture as a Dynamic Capability: The Case of 3M in the United Kingdom
- 21. Cultural Issues, Organizations and Information Fulfilment: An Exploration towards Improved Knowledge Management Relationships
- 22. Engineering Design at a Toyota Company: Knowledge Management and the Innovative Process
- 23. Critical Analysis of International Guidelines for the Management of Knowledge Resources
- Section 6. The Knowledge Worker
- 24. Strategic Alliance Capability: Bringing the Individual Back into Inter-Organizational Collaboration
- 25. Automation vs. Human Intervention: Is There any Room Left for the Analyst in the Data Mining Process
- 26. Temporality and Knowledge Work
- 27. Knowledge Intensive Work in a Network of Counter-Terrorism Communities
- 28. Tensions between Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Sharing: Individual Preferences of Employees in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
- Section 7. Discussing Knowledge
- 29. The Value of Knowledge: Reappraising Labour in the Post-Industrial Economy
- 30. New Media and Knowledge Work
- 31. Knowledge Management: The Construction of Knowledge in Organizations
- 32. Redefining Professional: The Case of India's Call Centre Agents
- 33. Knowledge Management: Fad or Enduring Organizational Concept
- Compilation of References
- About the Contributors
- Index.