Books About Knowledge Management

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Books about knowledge Management : A very partial list:

Davenport, T. H., & Prusak, L. (1998). Working knowledge: how organizations manage what they know. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press. This book is a summary of best practices and lessons learned from over 30 firms. It provides the overview but lacks the details for immediate implementation.

Leonard-Barton, D. (1995). Wellsprings of knowledge: building and sustaining the sources of innovation. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press. This book takes a hard look at knowledge creation in corporate groups e.g. product development. Dorothy highlights 'core rigidities' and 'creative abrasion' two important aspects of social knowledge flow.

Novak, J.D. (1998) Learning, creating and using knowledge: ConceptMaps as facilitative tools in schools and corporations. Joseph is a pioneer of concept mapping and he explores making meaning and the nature of knowledge. Although biased towards education this book has a clear message for corporate knowledge creation, constructivism rules! see also NovaksWritings

Perkins, D. N. (1986). Knowledge as design: L. Erlbaum Associates.

Scheffler, I. (1983). Conditions of knowledge : an introduction to epistemology and education (HEBREW): University of Chicago Press.

Sivan, Y. Y. (1996). Knowledge age standards: present scope and potential use in education. Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy.

Toffler, A. (1981). The third wave: Bantam Books.

Toffler, A. (1990). Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century: Bantam Books.

Badaracco, J.L. (1991): Knowledge Link: How firms compete through Strategic Alliances, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press

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