Challenges and issues in knowledge management

Challenges and Issues in Knowledge Management - the fifth volume in the Research on Management Consulting series - presents sixteen chapters that explore these various perspectives, focusing on knowledge management within the context of the management consulting industry, the dynamics associated wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Buono, Anthony F. (Editor), Poulfelt, Flemming (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2005.
SeriesResearch in management consulting.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116441
DOI10.1108/9781607525226
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiv, 382 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge management and the management consulting industry
  • Managing organizational knowledge networks in a professional services firm: interrelating knowledge management and intellectual capital / Jan Mouritsen and Per Nikolaj Bukh
  • Knowledge management in practice: examining knowledge as modes of production / Anne Bang
  • The fallacy of simplistic notions of the transfer of "best practice" / Sue Newell
  • "Knowing" in the consultancy firm: exploring knowledge, people, context, and tools in action / Elena Bou and Alfons Sauquet
  • Co-evolution of knowledge management processes: drawing on project experience in a global engineering consulting firm / Antti Ainamo
  • Dynamics of knowledge sharing and dissemination
  • A dispersed repertoire: exploring struggles to knowledge dissemination within consultancies / Stefan Heusinkveld and Jos Benders
  • In search of knowledge sharing in practice / Lotte Henriksen
  • Merging knowledge: a study of knowledge management in a consulting-firm merger / Markus Ejenäs and Andreas Werr
  • Knowledge-sharing behavior and post-acquisition integration failure / Kenneth Husted, Jens Gammelgaard and Snejina Michailova
  • Methodological approaches to studying knowledge in organizations
  • Organizational photography: a "snapshot" approach to understanding knowledge sharing / Nicoline Jacoby Petersen and Sille Østergaard
  • Video-views of knowing in action: analytical views "in situ" in an IT firm's development department / Sisse Siggaard Jensen
  • Complex project management in small high-technology firms: small firms as learning models? / Mette M©ınsted
  • Reflections on knowledge management and management consulting
  • Flaws in the "engine" of knowledge creation: a critique of Nonaka's theory / Stephen Gourlay and Andrew Nurse
  • Ten years of knowledge management: ramifications for consultants / Nicolas Rolland, Alice Guilhon and Georges Trepo
  • The wonderful world of knowledge management: does knowledge management really add value? / Peter Holdt Christensen
  • Knowledge and consultancy / Hans Siggaard Jensen.