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Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms

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ISBN-10: 0199259348

ISBN-13: 9780199259342

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mats Alvesson

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The book addresses the concept of knowledge in a work and organizational context, professional or knowledge work, and knowledge-intensive firms. It provides a critical, moderate social constructivist understanding of these themes and the current interest in knowledge management, organization and the "knowledge economy". Professional service as well as science and high-tech work and firms are treated, reporting case studies of IT and management consultancy firms, advertising agencies and life science based companies. The concepts of knowledge and knowledge management are discussed and dominant functionalist thinking debunked. The ambiguity of knowledge in the input, process and output of…    
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Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/20/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.946
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