Knowledge Management and Organizational Competence by Ron Sanchez (English) Hard

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Ideas about knowledge management and its central role in contemporary strategic management. The volume identifies kinds of knowledge that are of value to organizations.

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Two themes have become epicenters of new management thinking in the late 1990s: knowledge management and competence-based approaches to strategic management. These two themes share a common interest in identifying imporatant froms of organizational knowledge and in understanding processes through which knowledge can be transformed into organizational capabilities and competences. Knowledge Management and Organisational Competencedraws on the latest research by a number of noted management scholars. It presents new insights into various kinds of knowledge that are of value to organizations, organizational interactions that can createstrategically useful knowledge, alternative processes for managing knowledge, and approaches to integrating key forms of knowledge into organizational processes of competence building and leveraging. The papers in the volume collectively define a powerful conceptual framework for understanding organizational knowledge and its central role in building and leveraging competences. They present well articulated, logically consistent conceptualizations that will provide new theoretical impetus formanagement researchers, while at the same time providing case studies and examples of practical applications that suggest useful new methods and tools for maangement practitioners.

Author Biography

Ron Sanchez is Professor of Strategy and Technology Management at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. From 1998-1999 he was a Visiting Professor of Management in the Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy at the Copenhagen Business School. Previous appointments have included Associate Professor of Management at the University of Western Australia, Assistant Professor of Policy and Strategy at theUniversity of Illinois, and Visiting Professor of Strategic Management at ESSEC in France.

Table of Contents

Part I: Managing Knowledge into Competence1: Ron Sanchez: Managing Knowledge into Competence: The Five Learning Cycles of the Competent OrganizationPart II: Individual Knowledge and Individual/Group Learning Interactions2: Yasmin Merali: Building and Developing Capabilities: A Cognitive Congruence Framework3: Johan Stein and Jonas Ridderstråle: Managing the Dissemination of Competences4: Petteri Sivula, Frans A. J. van den Bosch, and Tom Elfring: Competence-based Competition: Gaining Knowledge from Client RelationshipsPart III: Group Knowledge and Group/Organization Learning Interactions5: Steffen P. Raub: Towards a Knowledge-based Framework of Competence Development6: Charles Baden-Fuller and Henk Volberda: Dormant Capabilities, Complex Organizations, and Renewal7: Fiona Murray and Nicolay Worren: Why Less Knowledge Can Lead to More Learning: Innovation Processes in Small vs. Large FirmsPart IV: Organizational Knowledge and the Management Function8: Frans A. J. van den Bosch and Raymond van Wijk: Creation of Managerial Capabilities through Managerial Knowledge Integration: A Competence-based Perspective9: Max Boisot and Dorothy Griffiths: Possession is Nine-tenths of the Law: Managing a Firm's Competence Base in a Regime of Weak Appropriability10: Philippe Lorino: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Role of Management Systems in Organizational Learning11: Ron Sanchez: Product, Process, and Knowledge Architectures in Organizational Competence

Long Description

Two themes have become epicenters of new management thinking in the late 1990s: knowledge management and competence-based approaches to strategic management. These two themes share a common interest in identifying imporatant froms of organizational knowledge and in understanding processes through which knowledge can be transformed into organizational capabilities and competences. Knowledge Management and Organisational Competencedraws on the latest research by a number of noted management scholars. It presents new insights into various kinds of knowledge that are of value to organizations, organizational interactions that can create strategically useful knowledge, alternative processes for managing knowledge, and approaches tointegrating key forms of knowledge into organizational processes of competence building and leveraging. The papers in the volume collectively define a powerful conceptual framework for understanding organizational knowledge and its central role in building and leveraging competences. They present well articulated, logically consistent conceptualizations that will provide new theoretical impetus for management researchers, while at the same time providing case studies and examples of practicalapplications that suggest useful new methods and tools for maangement practitioners.

Review Text

Part I: Managing Knowledge into Competence 1. Ron Sanchez: Managing Knowledge into Competence: The Five Learning Cycles of the Competent Organization Part II: Individual Knowledge and Individual/Group Learning Interactions 2. Yasmin Merali: Building and Developing Capabilities: A Cognitive Congruence Framework 3. Johan Stein and Jonas Ridderstrale: Managing the Dissemination of Competences 4. Petteri Sivula, Frans A. J. van den Bosch, and Tom Elfring: Competence-based Competition: Gaining Knowledge from Client Relationships Part III: Group Knowledge and Group/Organization Learning Interactions 5. Steffen P. Raub: Towards a Knowledge-based Framework of Competence Development 6. Charles Baden-Fuller and Henk Volberda: Dormant Capabilities, Complex Organizations, and Renewal 7. Fiona Murray and Nicolay Worren: Why Less Knowledge Can Lead to More Learning: Innovation Processes in Small vs. Large Firms Part IV: Organizational Knowledge and the Management Function 8. Frans A. J. van den Bosch and Raymond van Wijk: Creation of Managerial Capabilities through Managerial Knowledge Integration: A Competence-based Perspective 9. Max Boisot and Dorothy Griffiths: Possession is Nine-tenths of the Law: Managing a Firm's Competence Base in a Regime of Weak Appropriability 10. Philippe Lorino: A Pragmatic Analysis of the Role of Management Systems in Organizational Learning 11. Ron Sanchez: Product, Process, and Knowledge Architectures in Organizational Competence

Feature

Presents the latest ideas about knowledge management and its central role in contemporary strategic managementOffers a theoretically sound and practical framework for managing the creation of new organizational knowledge and its transformation into organizational competencesIllustrated by case studies and practical examples

Details ISBN0199240280 Short Title KNOWLEDGE MGMT & ORGANIZATIONA Language English ISBN-10 0199240280 ISBN-13 9780199240289 Media Book Format Hardcover Abridged Yes Year 2001 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ron Sanchez Author Ron Sanchez Affiliation Professor of Strategy and Technology Management, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne UK Release Date 2001-08-23 AU Release Date 2001-08-23 NZ Release Date 2001-08-23 Pages 262 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2001-08-23 Alternative 9780199259281 DEWEY 658.4038 Illustrations numerous figures Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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