Managing Knowledge
Critical Investigations of Work and Learning
Published on 18. April 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-92156-2 (ISBN)
Description
Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the naive, self-interested and popularized 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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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-92156-2 (9780333921562)
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Mike Chumer | Craig Prichard | Hugh Willmott
Managing Knowledge
Critical Investigations of Work and Learning
Book
04/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€58.84
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Persons
CRAIG PRICHARD is Lecturer in Communication Management at Massey University, New Zealand. - RICHARD HULL is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Innovation & Competition at the University of Manchester, 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, Claire McInney, Darcy LeFevre; intellectual capital - managing by numbers, Ali Yakhlef, Miriam Salzer-Morling; bugged - the software development process, Lynne Baxter; knowledge management and the conduct of expert labour, Richard Hull; safe enclaves, political enclaves and knowledge working, Niall Hayes, Geoff Walsham; intranets and knowledge management - de-centred technologies and the limits of intellectual discourse, Sue Newell, Harry Scarbrough, Jacky Swan, Donald Hislop; the bearable lightness of control - organizational reflexivity and the politics of knowledge management, Alan McKinlay; human capitals or capitalizing on humanity? knowledge and skills in interactive service work, Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson, George Callaghan; re-pairing knowledge worker and service worker - a critical autobiography of "Stepping into the Shoes of My Other", Dorothy Lander; knowledge workers R us - acadamics, practitioners and the specific intellectual, Deborah Jones; know, learn and share! the knowledge phenomena and the construction of a communicative and knowledge consumptive body, Craig Prichard; theorizing knowledge as work - the need for a "knowledge theory of value", Roy Jacques; responses to Roy Jacques' "theorizing knowledge as work"; Roy Jacques writes back.