Managing Knowledge
Critical Investigations of Work and Learning
Published on 18. April 2000
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XXX, 255 pages
978-0-333-92157-9 (ISBN)
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Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the naive, self interested and popularised messages that surround knowledge work and knowledge management. Case studies highlight the politics of new communications technologies which are frequently offered as a means for managing knowledge in the workplace.
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CRAIG PRICHARD is Senior Lecturer in Management at Massey University, New Zealand.
RICHARD HULL is Senior Lecturer in Management, The Business School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
MIKE CHUMER is Lecturer in Library & Information Sciences, Rutgers University, USA.
HUGH WILLMOTT is Professor of Organisational Analysis, Manchester School of Management, UK.
RICHARD HULL is Senior Lecturer in Management, The Business School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
MIKE CHUMER is Lecturer in Library & Information Sciences, Rutgers University, USA.
HUGH WILLMOTT is Professor of Organisational Analysis, Manchester School of Management, UK.
Content
Knowledge Managers: History and Challenges; C.McInerney & D.LeFevre.- Intellectual Capital: Managing by Numbers; A.Yakhlef & M.Salzer-Morling.- Bugged: The Software Development Process; L.Baxter.- Knowledge Management and the Conduct of Expert Labour; R.Hull.- Safe Enclaves, Political Enclaves & Knowledge Working; N.Hayes & G.Walsham.- Intranets & Knowledge Management: De-centred Technologies & the Limits of Intellectual Discourse; S.Newell, H.Scarbrough, J.Swan & D.Hislop.- The Bearable Lightness of Control; Organisational Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge Management; A.McKinlay.- Human Capitals or Capitalising on Humanity? Knowledge and Skills in Interactive Service Work; C.Warhurst, P.Thompson and G.Callaghan.- Re-Pairing Knowledge Worker and Service Worker: A Critical Autobiography of Stepping into the Shoes of My Other; D.Lander.- Knowledge Workers R Us: Academics, Practitioners and the Specific Intellectual; D.Jones.- Know, Learn and Share! The Knowledge Phenomena and the Construction of a Communicative and Knowledge Consumptive Body; C.Prichard.- Theorising Knowledge as Work: The Need for a 'Knowledge Theory of Value'; R.Jacques.- Responses to R.Jacques'.- 'Theorising Knowledge as Work'.- Roy Jacques Writes Back.