Managing Knowledge : An Essential Reader

by Little, Stephen E; Ray, Tim

• ISBN13: 9781412912419
• ISBN10: 1412912415
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-03
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. The Second Edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends. A comprehensive introduction places these readings in context and draws together key strands across the field. The new reader includes new and revised chapters as well as newly authored material, to provide students with a current resource that enables the study of knowledge management from a variety of perspectives. Theoretical work and engaging case studies place knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Making Sense of Managing Knowledge	1	(20)
Tim Ray
PART I: KEY CONCEPTS	21	(134)
SECI, Ba and Leadership: A Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation	23	(28)
I. Nonaka
R. Toyama
N. Konno
Bridging Epistemologies: The Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing	51	(34)
S.D.N. Cook
J.S Brown
What is Organizational Knowledge?	85	(22)
Haridimos Tsoukas
Efi Vladimirou
Do We Really Understand Tacit Knowledge?	107	(20)
Haridimos Tsoukas
An Overview: What's New and Important about Knowledge Management? Building New Bridges between Managers and Academics	127	(28)
J.-C. Spender
PART II: KNOWING IN PRACTICE	155	(162)
Deep Smarts	157	(14)
Dorothy Leonard
Walter Swap
Organizational and Occupational Commitment: Knowledge Workers in Large Corporations	171	(28)
May Yeuk-Mui Tam
Marek Korczynski
Stephen J. Frenkel
Human Resource Policies for Knowledge Work	199	(22)
John Storey
Knowledge Management Initiatives: Learning from Failure	221	(18)
John Storey
Elizabeth Barnett
IC Valuation and Measurement: Classifying the State of the Art	239	(16)
Daniel Andriessen
Managing Knowledge and Innovation Across Boundaries	255	(18)
Paul Quintas
The Human Resource Architecture: Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development	273	(26)
David P. Lepak
Scott A. Snell
HR's Role in Building Relationship Networks	299	(18)
Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall
PART III: REVISING THE AGENDA	317	(32)
Tacit Knowing, Communication and Power: Lessons from Japan?	319	(30)
Tim Ray
Stewart Clegg
Index	349