Knowledge in Organisations

✍ Scribed by Laurence Prusak (Eds.)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 263
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The second in the readers' series, Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge In Organisations gives an overview of how knowledge is valued and used in organisations. It gives readers excellent grounding in how best to understand the highest valued asset they have in their organisations.

Describes the importance of knowledge to today's organizations.
Offers insight into how knowledge can be obtained and cultivated.
Provides a variety of persepctives, including sociology, economics, and management science

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright, Page iv
Introduction to Series—Why Knowledge, Why Now?, Pages vii-viii, Laurence Prusak
Introduction to Knowledge in Organizations, Pages ix-xv, Laurence Prusak
Chapter 1 - Knowledge as Strategy: Reflections on Skandia International and Shorko Films, Pages 1-15, Michael J. Earl
Chapter 2 - Knowledge of the Firm: Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology, Pages 17-35, Bruce Kogut, Udo Zander
Chapter 3 - Informal Networks: The Company, Pages 37-49, David Krackhardt, Jeffrey R. Hanson
Chapter 4 - Top Management, Strategy and Organizational Knowledge Structures, Pages 51-71, Marjorie A. Lyles, Charles R. Schwenk
Chapter 5 - EPRINET: Leveraging Knowledge in the Electric Utility Industry, Pages 73-97, Marina M. Mann, Richard L. Rudman, Thomas A. Jenckes, Barbara C. McNurlin
Chapter 6 - A New Organizational Structure, Pages 99-133, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi
Chapter 7 - The Tacit Dimension, Pages 135-146, Michael Polanyi
Chapter 8 - Learning By Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Pages 147-175, William H. Starbuck
Chapter 9 - Organizational Memory, Pages 177-212, James P. Walsh, Gerardo Rivera Ungson
Chapter 10 - Cosmos vs. Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts, Pages 213-226, Karl E. Weick
Chapter 11 - Financial Risk and the Need for Superior Knowledge Management, Pages 227-251, Chris Marshall, Larry Prusak, David Shpilberg
Index, Pages 253-261

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