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By
Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England, and a founding member of Knowledge Management Consortium International.
Description
'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of
practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is
a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep understanding of
both the history of management theory and knowledge production more generally enables him to separate the wheat from the chaff of the
KM literature.
This ground-breaking book will prove of interest to both academics and practitioners of knowledge management. It highlights
the ways in which KM has challenged the values associated with knowledge that academics have taken for granted for centuries. At the
same time, Fuller resists the conclusion of many KM gurus, that the value of knowledge lies in whatever the market will bear in the short
term. He pays special attention to how information technology has not only facilitated knowledge work but also has radically altered
its nature. There are chapters devoted to the revolution in intellectual property and an evaluation of peer review as a quality control
mechanism. The book culminates in a positive re-evaluation of universities as knowledge producing institutions from which the corporate
sector still has much to learn.
Contents
Introduction; 1. What Knowledge Management Has Managed to Do to Knowledge; 2. Making Knowledge Matter: Philosophy, Economics, and Law;
3. Information Technology as the Key to the Knowledge Revolution 4. A Civic Republican Theory of Knowledge Management; Appendix: What's
Living and Dead in Peer Review Processes?; Conclusion: The Mixed Root Metaphor of Knowledge Management
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Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: DEC-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7365-5
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7365-6
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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