Managing Knowledge: Perspectives on Cooperation and Competition

✍ Scribed by Professor Georg von Krogh, Professor Johan Roos

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Using both established as well as more recent modes of inquiry, this book sheds new light on an increasingly important dimension of organizational cooperation and competition - that of knowledge and knowledge transfer. Based on research and practice, the book addresses a wide range of issues concerning the management of knowledge, from knowledge transfer between organizations to knowledge management within organizations. Divided into two parts, Managing Knowledge reflects a fundamental conceptual distinction between two world-views. The first part is characterized by representationism, or traditional approaches to viewing knowledge, knowledge transfer and cooperative strategies. The contributors provide a clea

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Representationism: Traditional Approaches to Viewing Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer and Cooperative Strategies......Page 18
1 - Representationism: the Traditional Approach to Cooperative Strategies......Page 20
2 - Imitation of Knowledge: a Sociology of Knowledge
Perspective......Page 43
3 - Towards a Theory of Knowledge Transfer in a Cooperative Context......Page 66
4 - The Impact of Individual and Organizational Learning on Formation and Management of Organizational Cooperation......Page 93
5 - Arguments on Knowledge and Competence......Page 111
6 - Knowledge-Based Strategic Change......Page 127
7 - Restructuring: Avoiding the Phantom Limb Effect
......Page 148
Part II: Anti-Representationism: New Perspectives on Knowledge and Knowledge Transfer in Organizational Cooperation......Page 166
8 - An Essay on Corporate Epistemology......Page 168
9 - Knowledge Creation through Cooperative Experimentation......Page 195
10 - A Note on the Epistemology of Globalizing Firms......Page 214
11 - Conversation Management for Knowledge Development......Page 229
Afterword: an Agenda for Practice and Future Research
......Page 237
Index......Page 242

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