Managing Knowledge

Knowledge management is a topic of increasing popularity in management and organization studies and an area of research which is rapidly being developed into new courses. Managing Knowledge: An Essential Reader provides a full introduction to this subject with crucial articles representing the major themes in the field.

This Reader brings together key theoretical work, critical case studies and newly written chapters to place knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy. The book offers a critical overview of the theories concerned as well as a range of relevant examples from an international perspective for illustration.

Managing Knowledge provides essential reading to those interested in knowledge in the organization, and will be an indispensable companion on all knowledge management courses.

1. Managing Knowledge in a New Century
   Paul Quintas
• Part I: Creating Knowledge
2. Organizing Knowledge
   John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
3. SECI, Ba and Leadership: a Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation
   I. Nonaka, R. Toyama and N. Konno
4. Bridging Epistemologies: the Generative Dance between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing
   S.D.N. Cook and J.S. Brown
   
5. Managing Japanese Organizational Knowledge Creation: the Difference
   Tim Ray
• Part II: Resources and Capabilities
6. Strategic Thinking and Knowledge Management
   Ysanne Carlisle
7. Conceptualizing Knowledge Used in Innvation: a Second Look at the Science-Technology Distinction and Industrial Innovation
   Wendy Faulkner
8. What is Brand Equity Anyway, and How Do You Measure It?
   Paul Feldwick
9. Shifting Perspectives on Organizational Memory: from Storage to Active Remembering
   Liam J. Bannon and Kari Kuutti
• Part III: Communicating and Sharing Knowledge
10. Communication Perspectives
    J.C. Condon and F.S. Yousef
11. Divided by a Common Language: Diversity and Deception in the World of Global Marketing
    Mary Goodyear
12. The New Language Lab — Parts 1 and 2
    Johan Roos and Georg von Krogh
13. The Learning Organization
    D.J. Skyrme and D.M. Amidon
14. Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd.: 10 Critical Success Factors for Notes Adoption
    Dene Sherwood
15. Organizing in the Knowledge Age: Anticipating the Cellular Form
    Raymond E. Miles, Charles C. Snow, John A. Mathews, Grant Miles and Henry J. Coleman, Jr.
    
• Part IV: Knowledge, Innovation and Human Resources
16. Brainpower
    Thomas A. Stewart
17. Linking Competitive Strategies with Human Resource Management Practices
    Randall S. Schuler and Susan E. Jackson
18. Managing Professional Intellect: Making the Most of the Best
    James Brian Quinn, Philip Anderson and Sydney Finkelstein
19. HR and Organizational Structures
    John Storey
20. Quo Vadis Nunc: Where Does an Innovative Company Go Next?
    David Straker
21. Conclusion: Managing Knowledge in a Global Context
    Stephen E. Little
    

University Reader

Disclosure: This was my reader during my KM course in my MBA, so I am biased!

I find it good, as many of the most influential articles are included (some are notably missing, but some bias you have to allow). It is a bit dry, but it does a good job of giving an overview of the subject.