The Book Of Knowledge

Arthur, Michael: Knowledge at Work: Creative Collaboration in the Global Economy, BBC Audiobooks, ISBN: 1405107553
leichte Lagerspuren Pressestimmen\nIn this book the authors bridge a gap in the economic literature with a fresh and lively account of the crucial links among workers, knowledge work, and economic performance. Given the multi-dimensional character of the topic, they do not provide all the answers but they pose questions and guide the reader forward. This book sets the agenda on the knowledge-based economy and the complex relations that drive it. Michael Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell This book provides an extraordinary integration of literature on knowledge work, accompanied by a large number of cases and stories to illustrate underlying ideas. I can think of no book that offers such a stimulating and thought-provoking blend of theory and practice. Both present and future managers will greatly enjoy this book. Lars Lindkvist, Linkoping University Both scholarly and streetwise, this book does a great job in showing what knowledge work means for the lives of the people who do it, and the performance of the organizations that try to manage it. Harry Scarborough, University of Warwick A very impressive account of 'knowledge at work' on several levels of analysis: individual, organization, industry, and community; that successfully connects with managerial practice Joerg Sydow, Free University of Berlin This book provides unique insights into the drivers behind the knowledge economy, showing how individuals, groups, organizations and industries create and use knowledge. It provides an important and highly readable contribution to contemporary understanding of knowledge and learning processes. David Gann, Imperial College London For those of us wilting under the weight of new publications on knowledge and knowledge management this book provides a welcome refuge in what is a busy, crowded and often confusing zone. Not only does it provide a broad ranging and thorough review of the key issues, but it also challenges the reader to reflect on them chapter by chapter. The book recognises what too many others don't that all the company procedures and IT-based knowledge management systems are just tools and that people are at the centre of the knowledge based economy. The strength of the book lies in its grounding in real work examples and in its consistent use of a framework - the knowledge diamond - which highlights the interdependencies of four key participants in knowledge work: individuals, communities, organizations and industries. It should be useful to both knowledge workers themselves and those that study them. Dr Tim Brady, University of Brighton \n\nKurzbeschreibung\nThis book's unique perspective stems from its knowledge diamond framework to examine how individuals, communities, organizations and host industries reciprocally influence each other in the course of knowledge work. This highly topical book focuses on work-based projects as a focus for organizational learning. It establishes the link between individual, community, organization and industry learning. It suggests that organizations need to recognise and understand this link if they are to capitalize on project-based learning. It incorporates material on project-based learning in virtual communities. It refers to different examples, such as the film industry, the software industry and the boat building industry. It includes end-of-chapter questions provoking reflection and discussion. , ISBN-13: 9781405107556

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(Herausg.): Organizational Knowledge in the Making: How Firms Create, Use and Institutionalize Knowledge, Oxford Univ Pr, ISBN: 0199275246
Pressestimmen\n... entails aggressively novel ideas about the relationships between leading edge technology and empowered staff and, pivotally, about how to make good use of collective learning. But most of all, Patriotta gives us new insight into how to do empirical research in a KM frame. Prometheus, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2005 Organizational Knowledge in the Making is a provocative, insightful description and analysis of the dual process of knowing and organizing... Administrative Science Quarterly Patriotta's book is of an enduring kind; it offers us some brilliant developments that really start to address the fundamental question of knowing in the dynamic of organizing... Organization Studies Organizational Knowledge in the Making is a remarkable study of organizing, remarkable in its grounding of organizational knowledge, remarkable in its steady focus on knowing amidst breakdown, and remarkable most of all in the author's accessible grasp of the complexities of process and becoming. Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Review from previous edition Review from previous edition An eloquent, timely, and scholarly study of knowing in the context of organizing. ... This is not yet another static and inert treatment of organizational knowledge where knowledge is portrayed as a simple commodity ... Rather we have here a processual treatment of knowing in its organizational context, where the core questions are about how knowledge is created, utilized, legitimated, and institutionalized Andrew Pettigrew (from Foreword) \n\nKurzbeschreibung\nKnowledge is a very seductive, but elusive concept. Following the wider debate about the emergence of the information age and the knowledge society, recent years have seen an explosion of writings about organizational knowledge from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Yet, theoretical development has not always been accompanied by sound empirical research. Methodologies for studying knowledge as an empirical phenomenon are still lagging behind. This book aims to fill the gap between theory, method, and practice by developing a phenomenological approach to the study of knowing in the context of organizing. The book contributes to the fields of strategy and organization in three ways. First it provides a critical review of the concepts, debates, and epistemological assumptions underpinning existing theories of organizational knowledge. Second, it develops a methodological framework for studying knowledge processes as an empirical phenomenon that is based on three methodological lenses: time, breakdowns, and narratives.Third, drawing on the three-lens framework, the book presents a phenomenological enquiry on knowing and organizing processes within two large car-manufacturing plants at Fiat Auto, Italy. The book highlights the need to re-think organizational knowledge from an action-based perspective and suggests a new vocabulary for understanding knowledge-oriented phenomena in organizations. The book is addressed both to scholars of strategy and organization and to reflective practitioners. Academics will be stimulated to reflect upon concepts they normally take for granted and habitually use in their research. The book is also suitable for young researchers and doctoral students whose research interests lie in the areas of knowledge and organization. The Fiat case study, on which the book is based, offers interesting insights to practitioners as far as classical themes like change, innovation, and organizational design are concerned. Contrary to mainstream knowledge management texts, however, this book does not provide any recipes about alleged best ways for managing organizational knowledge.Rather, it invites managers and practitioners to reflect about the repertoire of knowledge they possess and yet cannot , ISBN-13: 9780199275243

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S.C. Chatterjee Illustrator: NA: Nyaya Theory of Knowledge, Bharatiya Kala Prakashan 2008 ISBN: 9788180901461

New Hardcover NA The book is composed of Nyaya theory and its various factors such as pramana, doubt (sarhsya), error (viparyyaya), hypothetical argument (tarka), etc. Definition of valid knowledge (prama), parmana (method of knowledge), Nyaya criticism of the Bauddha views of pramana, Nyaya criticism of the Mimamsa and Saiikhya views, subject, object and method of valid knowledge, test of truth, Buddhist, Jaina, Prabhakara, Vedanta and Nyaya definitions of perception are also explained in detail in the book. The book also talks about ordinary perception, extraordinary perception, nature and definition of anumana (inference), grounds of inference, classification and logical forms of inference, fallacies of inference, etc. Upamana (comparison), its Nyaya definition, Jaina, Mimamsa, Vedanta views of Upamana, its classification, and Upamana' as an independent source of knowledge are other aspects of the book with sufficient light thrown upon them. The book also deals with Sabda (testimony), its Nyaya definition and different kinds, along with sounds and words and unity of words and the hypothesis of Sphota. In essence, the book touches almost every aspect of Nyaya theory. And, the order and presentation of matter in the book also contribute to make the book worth reading. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; I. METHOD OF VALID KNOWLEDGE (PRAMANA) : 1. Nature and Forms of Knowledge 2. Valid Knowledge and its Method (Prama and Pramana) 3. Factors of Valid Knowledge (Prama) 4. Test of Truth and Error II. PERCEPTION AS A METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE (PRATYAKSA-PRAMANA) : 5. Definition of Perception 6. Psychology of Perception 7. Ordinary Perception and its Objects 8. Three Modes of Ordinary Perception 9. Extraordinary Perception (Alaukika Pratyaksa) III. THEORY OF INFERENCE (ANUMANA-PRAMANA) : 10. Nature of Inference 11. Grounds of Inference 12. Classification and Logical Forms of Inference 13. Fallacies of Inference IV. UPAMANA OR COMPARISON : 14. Nature and Forms of Upamana 15. Upamana as an Independent Source of Knowledge (Pramana) V. SABDA OR TESTIMONY : 16. Nature and Classification of Sabda 17. Words (Pada) 18. Sentences (Vakya) 19. Other Sources of Knowledge Printed Pages: 382. 5th or later edition

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Tichkiewitch, Serge/Bernard, Alain: Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management, SPRINGER, BERLIN, November 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3642097189
Knowledge Management is a vast and diverse topic that must be addressed by all modern industrial companies, from the smallest SMEs to the most complex organizations. Knowledge is a critical and strategic asset and the key to competitiveness in the modern manufacturing environment, as it facilitates capacities essential for achieving the required responsiveness, flexibility, agility and innovation. Nevertheless, knowledge itself is difficult to explicate and capture, and often can be recognized only in the improvements it brings to products, technologies and enterprise organizations.Four years ago, members of the CIRP community submitted a proposal to the 6th EU Framework Programme to establish a Network of Excellence (NoE). The European Community accepted this proposal, and thus the Virtual Research Laboratory - Knowledge Community in Production (VRL-KCiP) network was launched. The network set out to create a Knowledge Community in Production that would provide support and knowledge to EU industry. This goal was achieved thanks to (a) the ongoing cooperation and collaboration among the network partners, who represent leading universities worldwide, and (b) additional strong member partnerships with laboratories outside of Europe (Japan, Australia, South Africa, USA, and others).The main efforts of the VRL-KCiP NoE were aimed at aiding European manufacturing industry in defining and structuring its strategic knowledge in order to meet worldwide strategic challenges. These challenges, detailed below, have remained constant over the four years of the network's activities:Manufacturing must become knowledge intensive, given the demand for high-tech products (e.g. electronics, medicines).Given the relatively high labor costs in Europe compared to those in developing countries, manufacturing processes in Europe require high levels of expertise to realize required productivity.As a result of these challenges, over the past 30 years knowledge management (KM) has become a major issue in Europe, in academia as well as in industry. Indeed, firms have recognized that cultivating the knowledge resource is essential for management as well as for operations. The aim of this book is to help readers understand the complex topic of knowledge. Moreover, it underlines why knowledge is one of the most important strategic issues in achieving future manufacturing competitiveness.The book is a collection of 34 complementary contributions written by researchers from multinational locations and multidisciplinary perspectives. This book is unique in that it is based on the collective experience of these researchers and represents the status and current issues in the study and implementation of Knowledge Management today. The book describes fundamental concepts in knowledge and knowledge management and provides several case studies in the fields of design and manufacturing. In particular, the book presents several very original examples of knowledge management and knowledge sharing in the context of European manufacturing. Actual experiences and feedbacks are presented with respect to knowledge engineering approaches for design, manufacturing, and more generally for enterprise engineering. Moreover, methods and tools for knowledge integration within the extended enterprise and the value chain are described, and the role of knowledge management and documents in supporting radical innovation projects is also highlighted.The book discusses ontology, which constitutes the basis for formalizing and mapping knowledge from different points of view. Concrete examples are described and elaborated, mainly with respect to product, process and resource description and management along the lifecycle of mechanical systems. Moreover, the book outlines the knowledge management efforts within the VRL-KCiP network. These efforts include (a) realizing a common knowledge management capability in the multilingual, multinational, multidisciplinary distributed research lab, and (b) developing a knowledge map, which now forms the basis for efficient collaboration within the VRL-KCiP consortium. In addition, the benefits of developing networks of experts and shared knowledge among multi-cultural communities are highlighted. It is our hope that this book will offer you new insight into the topic of knowledge management in the European manufacturing context.

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