Managing Knowledge
An Essential Reader

Second Edition

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Published in association with The Open University

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Knowledge Management

September 2005 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. The Second Edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends. A comprehensive introduction places these readings in context and draws together key strands across the field.

The new reader includes new and revised chapters as well as newly authored material, to provide students with a current resource that enables the study of knowledge management from a variety of perspectives. Theoretical work and engaging case studies place knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy.

Tim Ray

Introduction

PART ONE: KEY CONCEPTS

I Nonaka, R Toyama and N Konno

SECI, Ba and Leadership

A Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation

S D N Cook and J S Brown

Building Epistemologies

The Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing

Haridimos Tsoukas and Efi Vladimirou

What Is Organizational Knowledge?

Haridimos Tsoukas

Do We Really Understand Tacit Knowledge?

J C Spender

An Overview

What's New and Important about Knowledge Management? Building New Bridges between Managers and Academics

PART TWO: KNOWING IN PRACTISE

Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap

Deep Smarts

Tam Yeuk-Mui May, Marek Korczynski and Stephen Frenkel

Organizational and Occupational Commitment

Knowledge Workers in Large Corporations

John Storey

Human Resouce Policies for Knowledge Work

John Storey and Elizabeth Barnett

Knowledge Management Initiatives

Learning from Failure

Daniel Andriessen

IC Valuation and Measurement

Paul Quintas

Managing Knowledge and Innovation across Boundaries

David P Lepak and Scott A Snell

The Human Resource Architecture

Toward a Theory of Human Capital Allocation and Development

Mark L Lengnick-Hall and Cynthia A Lengnick-Hall

HR's Role in Building Relationship Networks

Tim Ray and Stewart Clegg

PART THREE: REVISING THE AGENDA

Tacit Knowing, Communication and Power

Lessons from Japan

A good reference on knowledge management that some might need for building theoretical background on KM. it is good as well as a postgraduate textbook for postgraduate students.

Dr Tareq Alhousary

Management Information Systems, Dhofar University

October 19, 2014

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Excellent book. Easy to read. Sophisticated analysis and discussion of important issues in relation to knowledge management

Mr Christian Lystbaek

Institute of Business and Technology, Aarhus University

November 10, 2011

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