Managing Knowledge

An Essential Reader

Stephen Little, Paul Quintas, Tim Ray

Publisher: Sage, 2002, 395 pages

ISBN: 0-7619-7213-7

Keywords: Knowledge Management

Last modified: Sept. 19, 2007, 7:06 a.m.

Knowledge management is a topic of increasing popularity in management and organization studies and an area of research which is rapidly being developed into new courses. Managing Knowledge: An Essential Reader provides a full introduction to this subject with crucial articles representing the major themes in the field.

This Reader brings together key theoretical work, critical case studies and newly written chapters to place knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy. The book offers a critical overview of the theories concerned as well as a range of relevant examples from an international perspective for illustration.

Managing Knowledge provides essential reading to those interested in knowledge in the organization, and will be an indispensable companion on all knowledge management courses.

    1. Managing Knowledge in a New Century
      Paul Quintas
  • Part I: Creating Knowledge
    1. Organizing Knowledge
      John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
    2. SECI, Ba and Leadership: a Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation
      I. Nonaka, R. Toyama and N. Konno
    3. Bridging Epistemologies: the Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing
      S.D.N. Cook and J.S. Brown
    4. Managing Japanese Organizational Knowledge Creation: the Difference
      Tim Ray
  • Part II: Resources and Capabilities
    1. Strategic Thinking and Knowledge Management
      Ysanne Carlisle
    2. Conceptualizing Knowledge Used in Innvation: a Second Look at the Science-Technology Distinction and Industrial Innovation
      Wendy Faulkner
    3. What is Brand Equity Anyway, and How Do You Measure It?
      Paul Feldwick
    4. Shifting Perspectives on Organizational Memory: from Storage to Active Remembering
      Liam J. Bannon and Kari Kuutti
  • Part III: Communicating and Sharing Knowledge
    1. Communication Perspectives
      J.C. Condon and F.S. Yousef
    2. Divided by a Common Language: Diversity and Deception in the World of Global Marketing
      Mary Goodyear
    3. The New Language Lab — Parts 1 and 2
      Johan Roos and Georg von Krogh
    4. The Learning Organization
      D.J. Skyrme and D.M. Amidon
    5. Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd.: 10 Critical Success Factors for Notes Adoption
      Dene Sherwood
    6. Organizing in the Knowledge Age: Anticipating the Cellular Form
      Raymond E. Miles, Charles C. Snow, John A. Mathews, Grant Miles and Henry J. Coleman, Jr.
  • Part IV: Knowledge, Innovation and Human Resources
    1. Brainpower
      Thomas A. Stewart
    2. Linking Competitive Strategies with Human Resource Management Practices
      Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson
    3. Managing Professional Intellect: Making the Most of the Best
      James Brian Quinn, Philip Anderson and Sydney Finkelstein
    4. HR and Organizational Structures
      John Storey
    5. Quo Vadis Nunc: Where Does an Innovative Company Go Next?
      David Straker
    6. Conclusion: Managing Knowledge in a Global Context
      Stephen E. Little

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Managing Knowledge

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Good ******* (7 out of 10)

Last modified: Sept. 19, 2007, 7:04 a.m.

University Reader

Disclosure: This was my reader during my KM course in my MBA, so I am biased!

I find it good, as many of the most influential articles are included (some are notably missing, but some bias you have to allow). It is a bit dry, but it does a good job of giving an overview of the subject.

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