Knowledge Management (KM) concerns how you identify a crucial but under-used strategic asset present within all organizations (ie: 'knowledge') and exploit it to maximize competitive advantage. This book takes a building blocks approach to knowledge management. The authors present a straightforward framework of knowledge-related management processes and analyze each component separately, thus providing a practical and structured tool for assessing the entire range of knowledge-related activities in an organisation. The methodology and focus they develop should help readers identify and make...

Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation