Knowledge Management

L. Magnani (2007), Morality in a Technological Word. Knowledge as a Duty

by Lorenzo Magnani

Cambirdge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral understanding of the problems that they... more The technological advances of contemporary society have outpaced our moral understanding of the problems that they create. How will we deal with profound ecological changes, human cloning, hybrid people, and eroding cyberprivacy, just to name a few issues? In this book, Lorenzo Magnani argues that existing moral constructs often cannot be applied to new technology. He proposes an entirely different ethical approach, one that blends epistemology with cognitive science. The resulting moral strategy promises renewed dignity for overlooked populations, both of today and of the future.

How Learning Organisation Practices Close Knowledge Creation

by Deborah Blackman

About the Book

This book discusses whether the pursuit of learning organisation status leads to behaviours... more About the Book

This book discusses whether the pursuit of learning organisation status leads to behaviours that close an organisation to new knowledge. Discussion of three assumptions derived from literature indicates that developing learning processes may not automatically result in useful knowledge. Consideration of learning organisation models, power, potential system closure, knowledge levels and individual preferences suggests that instead the outputs may lead to an organisation effectively reversing the knowledge development cycle, effectively closing the system. Moreover epistemological study indicates that, whilst the models are assumed to be rational in nature, the organisational knowledge is constructed. This mismatch, plus a lack of challenge, is shown to undermine an organisation's ability to recognise or use its knowledge. Four implications are identified: that idea generation becomes less important than idea recognition and use; that knowledge recognition becomes severely limited; that the presence of putative knowledge prevents transformation and that developing learning organisation activities inhibits change.

WeltWissen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in der Weltgesellschaft, 2003

by Markus Kaiser

»Entwicklung« wird unter den Bedingungen der globalisierten Wissensgesellschaft unweigerlich zu einem reflexiven... more »Entwicklung« wird unter den Bedingungen der globalisierten Wissensgesellschaft unweigerlich zu einem reflexiven kommunikativen Prozess. Nachdem man erkennen musste, dass es keinen Königsweg hin zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung gibt, werden neue Wege der Zusammenarbeit beschritten, bei denen globales und lokales Wissen in eine fruchtbare Beziehung zueinander gebracht werden. Für die hier tätigen Experten bedeutet dies, dass sie in erster Linie als Berater, Vermittler und Übersetzer agieren.
Der Band portraitiert die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit anhand vieler Beispiele aus der Praxis (Politikberatung, Demokratieförderung, good governance, Umweltprojekte u.a.) als einen Bereich, in dem ständig neues global-lokal verankertes Weltwissen produziert und kommuniziert wird.

Managing New Industry Creation

by Jeffrey Hart

Co-authored with Stefanie Lenway and Thomas Murtha and published by Stanford University Press in 2002

Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge

by Ariane Berthoin Antal

co-edited with Meinolf Dierkes, John Child & Ikujiro Nonaka,
Oxford University Press 2001

Finalist For The 2002 Academy of Management's Terry Book Award

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of... more This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organizational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organizations. It explains its origins, current applications and where it may be going. It provides a full account of varied disciplinary approaches, and discusses major issues in the field. With contributions from leading international experts, the book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students and professionals.

Organisationslernen—institutionelle und kulturelle Dimensionen. WZB Jahrbuch 1998

by Ariane Berthoin Antal

co-edited with Horst Albach, Meinolf Dierkes & Kristina Vaillant

The Annotated Bibliography of Organizational Learning and Knowledge,

by Ariane Berthoin Antal

co-edited with M. Dierkes, M. Alexis, B. Hedberg, P. Pawlowsky, J. Stopford, A. Vonderstein

Social Media Changing the Competitive Intelligence Process: Elicitation of Employees’ Competitive Knowledge

by Vilma Vuori

This doctoral dissertation is available for download: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tty-2011111014874

Competitive intelligence process aims to provide actionable information about the external business environment to... more Competitive intelligence process aims to provide actionable information about the external business environment to back up decision-making in companies. The affects that the rise of social media may have on competitive intelligence is a topic of interest to both practice and theory. The main objectives of this dissertation are to understand how social media changes the competitive intelligence process and how can it enhance the elicitation of employees’ competitive knowledge. The research questions are studied using both theoretical and empirical research approach. Empirical study consists of three data sets complementing each other, adopting several methods and perspectives.

The results of the dissertation suggest that social media has an effect on companies’ information environment, as the widespread use of social media produces more volume and more versatile information than before. In the competitive intelligence context this influences information gathering especially: social media for its part increases the available information sources, but it also offers technologies to automate some parts of information gathering and processing. In addition, use of suitable social media tools can have affects on the elicitation of employees’ competitive knowledge and making competitive knowledge more visible in a company. Social media provides an opportunity to implement the competitive intelligence process as participative and collaborative and engaging employees in the process. The role of the employees shifts to that of more active participants shaping the collaborative understanding by contributing their competitive knowledge to the process as well as better benefiting more from others’ competitive knowledge. However, the success of using social media in better utilising and sharing employees’ competitive knowledge relies heavily on utility, perceived usefulness and affordance of the tools as well as how motivated the employees are to use it for knowledge sharing. The main motivating factors and barriers are in line with those regarding general knowledge sharing.

The main contributions include increasing knowledge on the connection between social media and competitive intelligence: how the emergence of social media affects carrying out the competitive intelligence process and especially sharing of employees’ competitive knowledge. In addition, the research reveals the motivational factors and barriers related to employees’ willingness to use social media for sharing competitive knowledge. The findings also have practical managerial implications for companies planning to adopt social media for competitive knowledge sharing, as they provide means for them to prepare the conditions for successful utilisation and active employee participation.

International Technology Diffusion: Network Effects and Dissemination Structure

by Lawrenzo Hung-Chun Huang

Ph.D. Dissertation

Globalization has highlighted changes in socio-economic terms and is reshaping the world. Exogenous factors drive... more Globalization has highlighted changes in socio-economic terms and is reshaping the world. Exogenous factors drive technological progress, as well as driving economic growth via international technology diffusion. The international diffusion of technology therefore becomes one of most important topics of economics and technology policy research. However, comparing endogenous factors, exogenous factors are complexity and demonstrate as network phenomenon. The network phenomenon composes by neither solely nor independently unit. Countries in global network demonstrate interdependent, and influenced by many others. Hence, the characteristic of network structure implicate complexity configuration. Restated, the study of international diffusion is complication and multi-dimensional than using single perspective is difficult to reveal their structure.
Thus, this study utilizes social network analysis for investigating the structural configuration of international technology diffusion. Meanwhile, this study adopts two perspectives of collective behavioral research; they are power analysis, role and position analysis to examine the network structure of international technology diffusion. More specifically, this study exams the power structure of each country by network betweenness. The power analysis reveal micro feature of diffusion structures. Furthermore, by using role and position analysis categorize network actors by behavioral performance which regards technology mobility process; source, transmitter, and receiver. This investigation provides macro perspective on diffusion structure. In addition, this study tries to distinguish the channel differentiation of technology diffusion. In terms of embodied technology, that investigates by multilateral trade flow. On the other hand, the disembodied technology investigation utilizes the patent citations of respective country.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the deep structure of international technology diffusion and structural differences between embodied and disembodied technology diffusion networks. Through network analysis, this work is able to reveal the network position and roles of countries, and also to examine the relationships that exist between different diffusion networks. This study aims to make to following contributions to the literature on international technology diffusion; this study is the first to employ a multilateral perspective and longitude data to examine the cross-country network structure.
This work, thus, provides an understanding of the nature of globalization, its conceptualization and measurement, and how influence and effect is transmitted across distance through the interconnectedness of international technology diffusion. The findings not only illustrate the pattern change of diffusion structure form cascade-like to radial-like, but also present the structural configuration of technologically advanced countries and the competitive positions of each country. Furthermore, this study further utilizes structuralism perspective and systematic approach, which is rarely adopted in the literature, to study international technology diffusion, which involves various complex processes. Thus, the findings regarding the diffusion pattern changes and network position identifications can make policy implications for countries interested in exogenous effects for technological growth.

Keywords: International technology diffusion, network analysis, embodied and disembodied technology, structural configuration, technology spillover, international environment.

Pluralism in Management: Organizational Theory, Management Education, and Ernst Cassirer. Routledge, New York 2011

by Eirik J Irgens

Revitalizing Cassirer’s almost forgotten philosophy, the book illustrates the value of philosophical application to... more Revitalizing Cassirer’s almost forgotten philosophy, the book illustrates the value of philosophical application to organizational study, and the need for bringing together the best of the humanities and the science based management traditions in order to improve management education.

Journal of applied economics and business research

by Solmaz Filiz Karabag

Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research
6710 Sussex Avenue, 102, Burnaby V5H3C6 Canada

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Filiz Karabag
Södertörns University
Room no: F 1004
Alfred Nobels allé 7, Flemingsberg
141 89 Huddinge Stockholm Sweden

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to publish the third issue of The Journal of Applied Economics and... more Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to publish the third issue of The Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research that contains four inaugural papers featuring both fine quality and a wide spectrum of topics across applied economics, business and finance. We hope you will enjoy these readings. To view articles, visit http://www.aebrjournal.org/current-issue.html.

We now welcome your full papers, research notes, review papers, conference reports, and other related materials for the second issue. Articles of between 5,000 and 8,000 words can be sent via e-mail to editorial team at fsuvankulov@aya.yale.edu or filiz.karabag@sh.se

We look forward to an interesting second issue!

Yours truly,

Alisher Akhmedjonov,
Filiz Karabag,
Farrukh Suvankulov

Associate Editors

PhD Thesis Proposal: KM-SORE (Knowledge Management for Service Oriented Requirements Engineering)

by Muneera Bano

Muneera Bano
47-FBAS/PHDCS/F08

Supervisor:
Dr. Naveed Ikram (IIUI)
Co-Supervisor:
Dr. Mahmood Khan Niazi (Keele University, UK)

BASR Approval Date: 14th June 2011

Service Oriented Software Engineering is a shift of paradigm for creating software using reusable services which are... more Service Oriented Software Engineering is a shift of paradigm for creating software using reusable services which are available over the web. In creating such software the biggest challenge is to discover and select the appropriate services that match system requirements. Currently none of the proposed approach has been accepted by research community as a standard. And there is very little amount of empirical work available that addresses requirements engineering in service oriented paradigm. The aim of my research dissertation is to propose a framework for requirements engineering in SOSE. The framework is based on my research hypothesis, that integrating Knowledge Management in Service Oriented development would improve requirement engineering phase. The framework will be developed in the light of the issues and challenges identified by published literature and the practitioners working on service oriented projects. The research strategy includes both qualitative and quantitative empirical validation of the proposed framework.

Knowledge Policy

by David Rooney

Co-authored with Greg Hearn

The production of knowledge has become central to economic life. Competitiveness in the 21st century market place is... more The production of knowledge has become central to economic life. Competitiveness in the 21st century market place is now characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. But does this render cultural and social knowledge unimportant? This unique book advocates a broader epistemological base for the term ‘knowledge’ and develops policy implications from this perspective. By examining long-term challenges, the volume argues that fresh policy thinking is needed not only in the obviously knowledge-intensive portfolios but across all areas of knowledge production and questions how the different dynamics of the knowledge era affect defence, employment, environment, indigenous and international relations, multiculturalism and urban policy.

Handbook on the Knowledge Economy

by David Rooney

Co-authord with Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan

The Handbook provides a set of contributions from a range of leading knowledge economy thinkers from North America,... more The Handbook provides a set of contributions from a range of leading knowledge economy thinkers from North America, Europe, and Australia. the chapters offer view of how to approach practical problem to do with knowledge in both management and public policy. It deals with knowledge, information, creative industries, and wisdom.

Wisdom and Management in the Knowledge Economy

by David Rooney

Co-authored with Bernard McKenna and Peter Liesch

Today there are more technology, technologists, knowledge and experts than at any time in human history; but from a... more Today there are more technology, technologists, knowledge and experts than at any time in human history; but from a global perspective, it is difficult to argue that this accumulation of knowledge and technology has put the world in an unambiguously better position than it was in the past. Business is not getting any easier to do and major corporate collapses based on poor decisions, poor conduct, and poor judgement continue to occur. In public administration too, basic institutions and services (education, health, transport) seem to be continually undergoing “crises” of inadequate delivery and excessive pressure. Wisdom and Management in the Knowledge Economy explains why unwise managerial practice can happen in a world characterized by an excess of information and knowledge.

Drawing on Aristotle’s idea of practical wisdom, the book develops a theory of social practice wisdom that addresses important social psychological and sociological dynamics that underpin wise management and organizations. As well as providing a detailed theory of social practice wisdom, this book considers practical issues in organizational communication, behavior, culture, change and knowledge as well as in HRM, leadership, ethics, strategy, international business, business education, and wisdom research. By introducing the notion of social practice wisdom, aspects of social structure, organizational culture, and organizational communication needed for wisdom to flourish are for the first time rendered visible in a way that opens new possibilities for wiser management, wiser organizations, and wisdom research.

Nonaka´s knowledge creation theory revisited: a semiotic analysis of communicating knowledge in a geographically dispersed team

by Miikka Lehtonen

Organizzare la conoscenza: Dalle biblioteche all’architettura dell’informazione per il web [Organising Knowledge]

by Luca Rosati

Co-authored with Claudio Gnoli and Vittorio Marino.
Table of contents and sample chapter at http://lucarosati.it/blog/organizzare-la-conoscenza [Italian].

Through examples and case studies, the book describes how to apply the classification models figured out in the... more Through examples and case studies, the book describes how to apply the classification models figured out in the librarianship field to the information architecture for the World Wide Web.

The transfer of managerial knowledge in SMEs in situation of succession (family business) or recovery (non-family business)

by Fabrice Monaco

french document

Höndlun þekkingar

by Njordur Sigurjonsson

A short book about knowledge management and creativity. In Icelandic. A short book about knowledge management and creativity. In Icelandic.

Supply Chain Strategies

by Tony Hines

Strategic Supply Chain Management demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage... more Strategic Supply Chain Management demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy.

Whereas many textbooks on supply chain management focus on purchasing and operations, this new edition of Tony Hines' text focuses upon the direction-setting and efficient resource-allocation that organizations need to provide in order to satisfy their customers. Overcoming tensions between political, economic, technological, ethical and environmental considerations is shown to be vital to ensure a sensible strategy for managing the supply chain.

This impressive text makes the most of integrated case studies to show how strategic thinking and supply chain management play out in the real world. As such, the book is ideal for courses on supply chain management - especially those which require a strategic element.