Managing Knowledge in an Organizational Context, 2^nd Ed.

Managing Knowledge -- Unit 4

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 2001

ISBN: 0-7492-7754-8

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1. Introduction
• 1.1 Aims
• 1.2 Learning Objectives
2. Knowledge and Organizations: Concepts and Frameworks
• 2.1 The Strategic View
3. Knowledge Processes in Organizations
• 3.1 Communicating in Organizational Contexts
• 3.2 Communities of Practice
• 3.3 Knowledge-Sharing Culture
• 3.4 Organizational Learning
• The learning organization
• 3.5 Knowledge ‘Capture’ in Organizations
• 3.6 Organizational Memory
• 3.7 Absorptive Capacity of Organizations
4. Conceptual Frameworks for Organizational Knowledge
• 4.1 J.C. Spender’s Approach to Knowledge Management, Uncertainty and the Emerging Theory of the Firm
• 4.2 Nonaka’s Framework: A Unified Model of Dynamic Organizational Knowledge Creation
• 4.3 Cook and Brown on Knowledge and Knowing in Organizations
5. Conclusion