Managing Knowledge: An Essential Reader / Edition 2

by Stephen E Little, Tim Ray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412912419
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/03/2005
Series:	Published in association with The Open University Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Tim Ray
PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS
SECI, Ba and Leadership - I Nonaka, R Toyama and N Konno
A Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation
Building Epistemologies - S D N Cook and J S Brown
The Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing
What Is Organizational Knowledge? - Haridimos Tsoukas and Efi Vladimirou
Do We Really Understand Tacit Knowledge? - Haridimos Tsoukas
An Overview - J C Spender
What's New and Important about Knowledge Management? Building New Bridges between Managers and Academics
PART TWO: KNOWING IN PRACTISE
Deep Smarts - Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
Organizational and Occupational Commitment - Tam Yeuk-Mui May, Marek Korczynski and Stephen Frenkel
Knowledge Workers in Large Corporations
Human Resouce Policies for Knowledge Work - John Storey
Knowledge Management Initiatives - John Storey and Elizabeth Barnett
Learning from Failure
IC Valuation and Measurement - Daniel Andriessen
Managing Knowledge and Innovation across Boundaries - Paul Quintas
The Human Resource Architecture - David P Lepak and Scott A Snell
Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development
HR's Role in Building Relationship Networks - Mark L Lengnick-Hall and Cynthia A Lengnick-Hall
PART THREE: REVISING THE AGENDA - Tim Ray and Stewart Clegg
Tacit Knowing, Communication and Power
Lessons from Japan