Knowledge Management
Dependency, Creation and Loss in Industrial History
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
118 pages
978-1-032-07727-7 (ISBN)
Description
This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research selected by expert series editors and contextualised by new analysis from each author on the subject of knowledge management in industrial history.
With contributions on knowledge management, knowledge transfer, knowledge loss, knowledge creation, competition and co-operation in producing skilled employees, and ownership structures and their relation to knowledge management, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
With contributions on knowledge management, knowledge transfer, knowledge loss, knowledge creation, competition and co-operation in producing skilled employees, and ownership structures and their relation to knowledge management, this volume provides an array of fascinating insights into industrial history.
Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Illustrations
2 s/w Zeichnungen, 6 s/w Tabellen, 8 s/w Abbildungen, 6 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
6 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Halftones, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-07727-7 (9781032077277)
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John F. Wilson | Ian Jones | Steven Toms
Knowledge Management
Dependency, Creation and Loss in Industrial History
Book
07/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
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John F. Wilson | Ian Jones | Steven Toms
Knowledge Management
Dependency, Creation and Loss in Industrial History
E-Book
07/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
€31.49
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John F. Wilson | Ian Jones | Steven Toms
Knowledge Management
Dependency, Creation and Loss in Industrial History
E-Book
07/2021
1st Edition
Routledge
€31.49
Available for download
Persons
John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He has published widely in the fields of business, management and industrial history, including ten monographs, six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters.
Ian Jones is Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, and has previously won the John F. Mee Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2018 for his contribution to the Management History Division.
Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds. He is former Editor of Business History. His research interests are focused on accounting and financial history and the history of the textile industry.
Ian Jones is Senior Research Assistant at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, and has previously won the John F. Mee Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2018 for his contribution to the Management History Division.
Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds. He is former Editor of Business History. His research interests are focused on accounting and financial history and the history of the textile industry.
Content
Introduction John Wilson, Ian Jones, Steven Toms 1. From knowledge dependence to knowledge creation: Industrial growth and technological advance of the Japanese electronics industry Charles Harvey, Mairi Maclean, and Tony Hayward 2. Management qualification and dissemination of knowledge in regional innovation systems: The case of Norway 1930s-1990s Ove Bjarnar, Rolv Petter Amdam and Hallgier Gammelsaeter 3. 'Neither a sleepy village nor a coarse factory town': Skill in the Greater Springfield Massachusetts industrial economy, 1800-1990 Robert Forrant