Knowledge Management Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780750673655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str.

Steve Fuller

Opis

This text succinctly teaches new and experienced knowledge professionals the fundamental concepts and theories defining the knowledge management discipline. Because by definition knowledge management requires working with intangible entities and qualities rather than physical objects, successful professionals will possess a minimal understanding of how society defines knowledge and how these definitions impact the way organizations use, create, build, and share information. This book prepares readers to successfully develop KM strategies by pragmatically explaining both what KM is and why it is essential for success in today's marketplace.

Recenzje

"Knowledge Management Foundations provides a much sought after intellectual platform for thinking about the management and development of knowledge in private and public organizations. He has created a reconstructive critique of Knowledge Management that goes far outside of the borders of traditional writing on the topic. This book offers a straightforward and major policy program for universities and corporations alike in thinking about their most valuable resource: knowledge. Managers on all levels should read this book, as should philosophers and sociologists of science who want to know about the ongoing real-world applications of their ideas. Fuller's book will become a classic."
—Tomas Hellström
Fellow at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology
Stockholm School of Economics and Chalmers University of Technology

"Steve Fuller has written a book that finally takes a critical look at the guru-hype that passes for Knowledge Management (KM). Fuller points out that prior work is so ridiculous that universities are now classified as the 'dumb organizations' and any McDonald's franchise is a 'smart' one. We are witnessing the deskilling of the knowledge worker, and the McDonaldization of the university. As Steve puts it, there is no 'free lunch' in cyberspace. This book will set the KM field upside down, where it belongs."
—David Boje
Editor of Journal of Organizational Change Management and TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. What Knowledge Management Has Managed to Do to Knowledge; 2. Making Knowledge Matter: Philosophy, Economics, and Law; 3. Information Technology as the Key to the Knowledge Revolution 4. A Civic Republican Theory of Knowledge Management; Appendix: What's Living and Dead in Peer Review Processes?; Conclusion: The Mixed Root Metaphor of Knowledge Management

O autorze

Steve Fuller