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Knowledge Management and Organizational Competence

Edited by Ron Sanchez

Price: £65.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924028-9
Publication date: 23 August 2001
264 pages, 41 line illus, 234x156 mm

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Presents the latest ideas about knowledge management and its central role in contemporary strategic management
Offers a theoretically sound and practical framework for managing the creation of new organizational knowledge and its transformation into organizational competences
Illustrated by case studies and practical examples

Two themes have become epicenters of new management thinking in the late 1990s: knowledge management and competence-based approaches to strategic management. These two themes share a common interest in identifying imporatant froms of organizational knowledge and in understanding processes through which knowledge can be transformed into organizational capabilities and competences.

Knowledge Management and Organisational Competence draws on the latest research by a number of noted management scholars. It presents new insights into various kinds of knowledge that are of value to organizations, organizational interactions that can create strategically useful knowledge, alternative processes for managing knowledge, and approaches to integrating key forms of knowledge into organizational processes of competence building and leveraging. The papers in the volume collectively define a powerful conceptual framework for understanding organizational knowledge and its central role in building and leveraging competences. They present well articulated, logically consistent conceptualizations that will provide new theoretical impetus for management researchers, while at the same time providing case studies and examples of practical applications that suggest useful new methods and tools for maangement practitioners.

Readership: Academic: researchers, scholars, and graduate students of management and related topics; Practitioner: managers and consultants

Contents

Part I: Managing Knowledge into Competence

1. Managing Knowledge into Competence: The Five Learning Cycles of the Competent Organization , Ron Sanchez

Part II: Individual Knowledge and Individual/Group Learning Interactions

2. Building and Developing Capabilities: A Cognitive Congruence Framework , Yasmin Merali

3. Managing the Dissemination of Competences , Johan Stein and Jonas Ridderstrale

4. Competence-based Competition: Gaining Knowledge from Client Relationships , Petteri Sivula, Frans A. J. van den Bosch, and Tom Elfring

Part III: Group Knowledge and Group/Organization Learning Interactions

5. Towards a Knowledge-based Framework of Competence Development , Steffen P. Raub

6. Dormant Capabilities, Complex Organizations, and Renewal , Charles Baden-Fuller and Henk Volberda

7. Why Less Knowledge Can Lead to More Learning: Innovation Processes in Small vs. Large Firms , Fiona Murray and Nicolay Worren

Part IV: Organizational Knowledge and the Management Function

8. Creation of Managerial Capabilities through Managerial Knowledge Integration: A Competence-based Perspective , Frans A. J. van den Bosch and Raymond van Wijk

9. Possession is Nine-tenths of the Law: Managing a Firm's Competence Base in a Regime of Weak Appropriability , Max Boisot and Dorothy Griffiths

10. A Pragmatic Analysis of the Role of Management Systems in Organizational Learning , Philippe Lorino

11. Product, Process, and Knowledge Architectures in Organizational Competence , Ron Sanchez

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Ron Sanchez, Professor of Strategy and Technology Management, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne

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Business strategy
Management & management techniques

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