Mapping Strategic Knowledge

by Anne Sigismund Huff

• ISBN13: 9780761969488
• ISBN10: 0761969489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-11
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This book outlines a number of different tools for mapping strategic knowledge, and thus making knowledge more accessible. Anne Sigismund Huff and Mark Jenkins have brought leading academics together in this work: - to provide informed analysis and theory - to illustrate the contribution of knowledge mapping to central issues in strategy and organization theory - to consider the contribution of these studies to management practice - to address practical theoretic and methodological limitations of these tools, including several software tools now available to facilitate mapping. Each section of the book provides a table which charts the chapters' main contents, key findings and implications for knowledge management. An annotated bibliography is provided at the end of the book as a resource for readers who may wish to become more familiar with relevant and existing literature in this area. Mapping Strategic Knowledge is relevant to those interested in knowledge management, primarily academics and consultants in the area of strategic management, but also academics in the area of organization theory.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(18)
Anne Sigismund Huff
Mark Jenkins
Part I: Methods for Directly Discovering Managerial Knowledge
Mapping Successful Organizational Routines	19	(27)
Veronique Ambrosini
Cliff Bowman
Linking Content to Process: How Mental Models of the Customer Enhance Creative Strategy Processes	46	(17)
Olaf G. Rughase
Enabling Strategic Metaphor in Conversation: A Technique of Cognitive Sculpting for Explicating Knowledge	63	(26)
John R. Doyle
David Sims
Part II: Inferring Managerial Knowledge
Gaining Understanding in a Complex Cause-Effect Policy Domain	89	(23)
Roger I. Hall
Entrepreneurial Narratives and the Dominant Logics of High-Growth Firms	112	(25)
Joseph Porac
Yuri Mishina
Timothy G. Pollock
Spatializing Knowledge: Placing the Knowledge Community of Motor Sport Valley	137	(36)
Nich Henry
Steven Pinch
Part III: Theoretic and Methodological Issues
A Mapping Framework for Strategy Making	173	(23)
Colin Eden
Fran Ackermann
The Individual in the Strategy Process: Insights from Behavioural Decision Research and Cognitive Mapping	196	(24)
Gerard P. Hodgkinson
A. John Maule
Facilitating Group Cognitive Mapping of Core Competencies	220	(17)
Phyllis Johnson
Gerry Johnson
Using a Knowledge-Based System to Study Strategic Options	237	(31)
Dale W. Jasinski
Anne Sigismund Huff
Annotated Bibliography	268	(32)
Heidi M. Neck
Nardine Collier
Index	300