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Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms (Paperback)
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Knowledge Work and Knowledge-Intensive Firms (Paperback)
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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 scrutinize
knowledge claims carefully. Alvesson looks at several aspects of
management and working life, including human resource management
issues, client control, and the regulation of identity. Rhetoric,
symbolism, image, the politics of knowledge claims, and identity
are all shown to be crucial for understanding the management of
'knowledge intensive firms'. By challenging key assumptions in
current thinking about knowledge and organization, a novel
theoretical approach is suggested. The book will be of interest to
business and management academics concerned with issues of
knowledge and organization, and will serve as supplementary reading
for graduate and final year undergraduate business and management
students.
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