Organizations as Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities

✍ Scribed by Haridimos Tsoukas, Nikolaos Mylonopoulos (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 322
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Knowledge has only recently been widely recognized as an organizational asset, the effective management of which can afford a firm competitive advantage. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge management relating it to business strategy, dynamic capabilities and firm performance. Some of the most eminent scholars in management have contributed to this timely book, including John Seely Brown, Chris Argyris, Georg von Krogh, Soumitra Dutta, Howard Thomas and John McGee, Arie Lewin and Silvia Massini. The book offers practitioners and students alike state of the art research in the field of organizational knowledge and management

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction:What does it Mean to View Organizations as Knowledge Systems?....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity....Pages 29-45
The Emergence of Learning Communities: A Theoretical Analysis....Pages 46-66
Communities of Practice: Facilitating Social Learning while Frustrating Organizational Learning....Pages 67-85
Knowing as Semiosis: Steps Towards a Reconceptualization of ‘Tacit Knowledge’....Pages 86-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Knowledge Creation in Open Source Software Development....Pages 109-129
The Implications of Different Models of Social Relations for Understanding Knowledge Sharing....Pages 130-153
A Knowledge-Sharing Approach to Organizational Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis....Pages 154-180
‘Knowing’ as an Activity: Implications for the Film Industry and Semi-Permanent Work Groups....Pages 181-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Knowledge Creation and Organizational Capabilities of Innovating and Imitating Firms....Pages 209-237
Edith Penrose’s Organizational Theory of the Firm: Contract, Conflict, Knowledge and Management....Pages 238-251
The Role of Knowledge Quality in Firm Performance....Pages 252-275
Making Sense of Customer Relationship Management Strategies in a Technology-Driven World....Pages 276-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-307

✦ Subjects

Management; Business Strategy/Leadership

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