Dear colleagues,
Am I the only one to be getting a little impatient with the managerialist
quality which 'K' (knowledge) has acquired in this debate? One does not have
to be a raving Foucauldian to be aware of the power implications of
knowledge, nor does one have to be a raving postmodernist to feel
uncomfortable about the reduction of knowledge to a thing, a commodity or
something conferring competitive advantage. What happened to wisdom or to
narrative knowledge? Above all, what happened to the insight of
philosophers, like Feyerabend, who contend that knowledge is a rebellious
bird, which can hardly be managed? Is knowledge doomed to become yet another
in the endless litany of qualifiers to the word management, e.g. management
of emotion, magement of innovation, management of the African elephant,
management of AIDS, and so forth?
Best wishes,
Yiannis Gabriel
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School of Management
University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY
Tel. 01225 826826, Ext. 5854
Fax. 01225 826473
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