Knowledge management in organizations : a critical introduction / Donald Hislop.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]Edition: Third EditionDescription: xx, 284 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199691937 (pbk.)Subject(s): Knowledge management | Knowledge management | WissensmanagementLOC classification: HD30.2 | .H575 2013| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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TUM Main Campus | HD 30.2.H575 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | 037517 |
Previous edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
The contemporary importance of knowledge and knowledge management -- Epistemologies of knowledge in the knowledge management literature. The objectivist perspective on knowledge -- The practice-based perspective on knowledge -- An introduction to key concepts. What is knowledge management? -- Knowledge-intensive firms and knowledge workers -- Learning and knowledge management -- Knowledge creation and organizational unlearning. Nonaka and knowledge creation theory -- Unlearning and the deliberate loss of knowledge -- Socio-cultural issues related to managing and sharing knowledge. The influence of socio-cultural factors in motivating workers to participate in knowledge management initiatives -- Communities of practice -- Cross-community, boundary-spanning knowledge processes -- Power, politics, conflict, and knowledge process -- Information and communication technologies and knowledge management -- Facilitating knowledge management via the use of human resource management practices -- Leadership, organization culture management, and knowledge management -- Reflections on the topic of knowledge management.