The following new book may be of interest to members of this list…
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS by Steve Fuller (Butterworth-Heinemann,
December 2001) 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.
Table of 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
For more information about the book, see the following link:
http://www.bh.com/knowledgemanagement/uk/subindex.asp?country=United+Kingdom
&mscssid=F3TW1DS751X49H74BTRG5S6L7Q7V3HHD
Steve Fuller
Professor of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Phone: 44+ (0) 2476 523 940
Fax: 44+ (0) 2476 524 497
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~sysdt/Index.html
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