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Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms

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ISBN-10: 019926886X

ISBN-13: 9780199268863

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mats Alvesson

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This book addresses the concept of knowledge, and its use in the contexts of work and organizations. It provides a critical understanding of current approaches to knowledge management, organization, and the 'knowledge economy'. The author describes a number of cases of 'knowledge intensive firms', including IT firms, management consultancy firms, advertising agencies, and life science companies. He emphasizes the ambiguity of knowledge in the input, process, and output of professional work, and suggests that we should be careful in assuming too much about the nature, role, and effects of 'knowledge' in business life. Instead we should understand the constructed nature of knowledge and…    
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Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.43" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School. He has done extensive research and published widely in the areas of qualitative and reflexive methodology, critical theory, organizational culture, knowledge work, identity in organizations, gender, organizational change, management consultancy etc. He has published 20 books with leading publishers and hundreds of articles, many of which are widely cited and used on higher levels in university education.nbsp;

Introduction
On Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Knowledge: Questioning the Functional View
Image, Rhetoric, and Symbolism
Socio-Politics of Knowledge Work: Social Connections and Interactions
Management and Organizational Control
Human Resource Management and Personnel Concepts
Knowledge Management
Identity: Uncertainties and Regulations
Conclusion