Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2010
XVI, 227 pages
978-0-230-29893-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVI, 227 p.
File size
1,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-230-29893-4 (9780230298934)
DOI
10.1057/9780230298934
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Person
DR KAJ U. KOSKINEN has worked for many years as a Project Manager in several international engineering companies, including Outokumpu and Honeywell. His main experience derives from process automation. Since 1997 he has been a Senior Lecturer (Docent) in Industrial Management and Engineering at Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland. Dr Koskinen's research interest is focused on knowledge and project management, and he has published several articles and together with Professor Emeritus Pekka Pihlanto the book
Knowledge Management in Project-Based Companies
:
An Organic Perspective
(Palgrave Macmillan 2008).
Content
Autopoietic Knowledge System: An Alternative Way to See Project-based Company Project Business Systemic View and Systems Thinking Autopoiesis Epistemological Assumptions Knowledge Dividend Evolution and Learning Components of the Project-based Company When it is Regarded as an Autopoietic Knowledge System Two Major Knowledge Flows Project-based Company as an Autopoietic Knowledge System
