Managing Knowledge: Perspectives on Cooperation and Competition - Softcover

Georg Von Krogh; Johan Roos

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761951814 ISBN 13: 9780761951810

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

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. As we move from the industrial age to the information age, the key to the competitive success of firms becomes the application and development of specialized knowledge and competencies. 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 clear overview of the current research on knowledge management, and bring together studies on the sociology of knowledge, strategic management and learning theory. The second part focuses on anti-representationism, or new perspectives on knowledge and knowledge transfer in organizational cooperation. These perspectives, based on autopoiesis theory, go far beyond conventional ways of perceiving and managing knowledge and their implications for management theory and practice are fully examined. Contrasting established approaches with the new thinking on knowledge as an organizational resource, Managing Knowledge makes important and stimulating reading for academics and students in strategic management and general management studies.

About this title

About the Author

Georg von Krogh is Professor of Management at the University of St Gallen and Director at the Institute for Management, University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

Johan Roos is Professor of Strategy at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

John Harald Aadne Hochschule St. Gallen

Thorvald Haerem Norwegian School of Management Sandvika

Dirk Kleine Hochschule St. Gallen

Volker Mahnke Hochschule St. Gallen

Salvatori Vicari SDA Bocconi, Milan

Kenneth Wathne Norwegian Institute of Marketing Sandvika

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761951814
• ISBN 13: 9780761951810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Von Krogh Professor Georg