Managing Knowledge: Perspectives on Cooperation and Competition / Edition 1

by Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos

Overview

Using both established as well as more recent modes of inquiry, this book sheds new light on an increasingly important dimension of organizational cooperation and competition - that of knowledge and knowledge transfer. Based on research and practice, the book addresses a wide range of issues concerning the management of knowledge, from knowledge transfer between organizations to knowledge management within organizations.

Divided into two parts, Managing Knowledge reflects a fundamental conceptual distinction between two world-views. The first part is characterized by representationism, or traditional approaches to viewing knowledge, knowledge transfer and cooperative strategies. The contributors provide a clea

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761951810
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/04/1996
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONISM: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO VIEWING KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES
Representationism - John Harald Aadne, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos
The Traditional Approach to Cooperative Strategies
Imitation of Knowledge - Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective
Towards a Theory of Knowledge Transfer in a Cooperative Context - Ken Wathne, Johan Roos and Georg von Krogh
The Impact of Individual and Organizational Learning on Formation and Management of Organizational Cooperation - Marjorie Lyles, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Dirk Kleine
Arguments on Knowledge and Competence - Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
Knowledge-Based Strategic Change - Thorvald H[di]aerem, Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
Restructuring - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Thorvald H[di]aerem
Avoiding the Phantom Limb Effect
PART TWO: ANTI-REPRESENTATIONISM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN ORGANIZATIONAL COOPERATION
An Essay on Corporate Epistemology - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Ken Slocum
Knowledge Creation through Cooperative Experimentation - Salvatore Vicari, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Volker Mahnke
A Note on the Epistemology of Globalizing Firms - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Georg Yip
Conversation Management for Knowledge Development - Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
Afterword - Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos
An Agenda for Practice and Future Research

Editorial Reviews

‘The work is a scholarly treatise and all contributors have displayed remarkable prowess in conceptualisation. Yet, every theme has been examined so that the practising manager may be provided with guidelines.... With commedable methodological rigour, the authors have drawn extensively from meticulously researched work in the fields of sociology of knowledge and strategic management and then formulated their own integrative model. Their work is characterised by both depth and breadth.... important and intellectually challenging' - Management Review (India)

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