KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS

• Main Author: Fuller, Steve 1959- (Author)
• Format: Thesis Book
• Language: English
• Published: LONDON Routledge 2016
• Subjects: Knowledge management
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Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing...

Table of Contents:

• What Knowledge Management Has Managed to Do to Knowledge
• Much Ado about Knowledge: Why Now?
• Historical Myopia as a Precondition for Knowledge Management
• What's in a Name?: "Knowledge Management,"
• Knowledge and Information: The Great Bait and Switch
• The Scientist: KM's Enemy Number One?
• The KM Challenge to Knowledge in Theory and Practice
• KM and the End of Knowledge in Theory: The Deconstruction of Public Goods
• KM and the End of Knowledge in Practice: The Disintegration of the University
• Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Value of Knowledge in Rent, Wage, Profit
• The Epistemic Empire Strikes Back: Metapublic Goods and the Injection of Academic Values into Corporate Enterprise
• Squaring the KM Circle: Who's Afraid of Accelerating the Production of New Knowledge?
• Making Knowledge Matter: Philosophy, Economics, and Law
• The Basic Philosophical Obstacle to Knowledge Management
• The Philosophical Problem of Knowledge and Its Problems
• The Creation of Knowledge Markets: The Idea of an Epistemic Exchange Rate
• An Offer No Scientist Can Refuse: Why Scientists Share
• Materializing the Marketplace of Ideas: Is Possessing Knowledge Like Possessing Money?
• Intellectual Property as the Nexus of Epistemic Validity and Economic Value
• The Challenges Posed by Dividing the Indivisible
• The Challenges Posed by Inventing the Discovered
• Interlude: Is the Knowledge Market Saturated or Depressed?: Do We Know Too Much or Too Little?
• Recapitulation: From Disciplines and Professions to Intellectual Property Law.