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Knowledge Management and Organizational Design (Resources for the
Knowledge-Based Economy)
by Paul S. Myers (Editor)
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Series - Why Knowledge, Why Now?
- 1. Knowledge Management and Organizational Design: An Introduction
- By Paul S. Myers
- 2. The Use of Knowledge in Society
- By Frederick A. Hayek
- 3. Specific and General Knowledge, and Organizational Structure
- By Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling
- 4. The Rise and Fall of Bureaucracy
- By Gifford Pinchot, Elizabeth Pinchot
- 5. The Emerging Flexible Organization: Perspectives from Silicon Valley
- By Homa Bahrami
- 6. The Organization of Innovation
- By Tom Burns, G. M. Stalker
- 7. When a Thousand Flowers Bloom: Structural, Collective, and Social Conditions for
Innovation in Organizations
- By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 8. Knowledge Links
- By Joseph Badaracco
- 9. Strategic Alliances, Organizational Learning, and Competitive Advantage: The HRM
Agenda
- By Vladimir Pucik
- 10. The Numbers
- By Charles Handy
- 11. Motivating Knowledge Workers - The Challenge for the 1990s
- By Mahen Tampoe
- 12. The Social System at the Shop Level
- By Michel Crozier
- 13. The Abstraction of Industrial Work
- By Shoshana Zuboff
- 14. Building Intelligence Networks
- By Wayne Baker
Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Knowledge Management And Organizational Design is a unique compilation of articles and
book excerpts that describe how the form and management of an organization shapes its
levels of knowledge transfer, innovation, and learning. The collection draws on fifty
years of management thinking to address key challenges facing knowledge-intensive
companies. The selections are concise, clearly written, and combine rich frameworks with
examples drawn from real management experience. Issues discussed include decision making,
organizational structure, innovation, strategic alliances, managing knowledge workers, and
power relations. Knowledge Management And Organizational Design represents a variety of
disciplines and approaches providing complementary answers to a critical set of knowledge
management dilemmas. Knowledge Management And Organizational Design is useful and
informative reading for anyone with a management task of any size or dimension.
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