The Essentials of Knowledge Management

Herausgegeben:Edwards, John S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reviews the field of Knowledge Management, taking a holistic approach that includes both "soft" and "hard" aspects. It provides a broad perspective on the field, rather than one based on a single viewpoints from Computer Science or Organizational Learning, offering a comprehensive and integrated conception of Knowledge Management. The chapters represent the best Knowledge Management articles published in the 21st century in Knowledge Management Research & Practice and the European Journal of Information Systems, with contributors including Ikujiro Nonaka, Frada Burstein, and David Schwartz. Most of the chapters contribute significantly to practise as well as theory. The OR Essentials series presents a unique cross-section of high quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and research across a range of Operational Research topics. It brings together some of the best research papers from the highly respected journals of the Operational Research Society, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Produktdetails

• OR Essentials
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-55208-2
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781137552082
• ISBN-10: 1137552085
• Artikelnr.: 42851321

Autorenporträt

John S. Edwards John Mingers Richard Baskerville and Alina Dulipovici Ikujiro Nonaka and Ryoko Toyama Jean-Pierre Noblet, Eric Simon and Robert Parent Ettore Bolisani and Alessandro Oltramari Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Anthony K.P. Wensley and María Teresa Sánchez Polo Rémy Magnier-Watanabe, Caroline Benton and Dai Senoo George Huber Jialin Yi Andrew Cox Antonella Padova and Enrico Scarso Tao Guo, David G. Schwartz, Frada Burstein and Henry Linger Paul Jackson and Jane Klobas Julia Nieves and Javier Osorio

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: setting the scene
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
2. Management knowledge and knowledge management: realism and forms of
truth
3. The theoretical foundations of knowledge management
PART II: STRATEGIC ISSUES
4. The knowledge-creating theory revisited: knowledge creation as a
synthesizing process
5. Absorptive capacity: a proposed operationalization
6. Knowledge as a measurable object in business contexts: a stock-and-flow
approach
7. A conceptual framework for unlearning in a homecare setting
8. A study of knowledge management enablers across countries
PART III: UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER/SHARING
9. Transfer of knowledge in knowledge management systems: unexplored issues
and suggested studies
10. A measure of knowledge sharing behavior: scale development and
validation
PART IV: PEOPLE OR TECHNOLOGY ISSUES?
11. Reproducing knowledge: Xerox and the story of knowledge management
12. Managing large amounts of knowledge objects: cognitive and
organisational problems
PART V: NEWER TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
13. Codifying collaborative knowledge: using Wikipedia as a basis for
automated ontology learning
14. Deciding to use an enterprise wiki: the role of social institutions and
scripts
15. The role of social networks in knowledge creation.