Knowledge work theme 4 Knowledge

This is a reference of the articles I choose for the 4th theme of the course.

I made some presentations about those articles available online.



Do we really understand tacit knowledge?,Haridimos Tsoukas, Final draft to be included in M. Easterby- Smith and M.A. Lyles (eds.), Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Blackwell 2005

Here is the first describing the views of Tsoukas in his article "Do we really understand tacit knowledge?" where he argues that Nonakas view isn't the correct. Rather you should interpretet Polynoi view in such a way that we should discuss about the skills which embedd tacit knowledge.

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Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge Conversion: Controversy and Advancement in Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory, Ikujiro Nonaka and Georg von Krogh, Organization Science,Vol. 20, No. 3, May–June 2009, pp. 635–652

The following presentation will introduce Nonakas and von Kroh answer to critisism against Knowledge creating theory.

 

Lean Knowledge Work, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton, Harvard Business Review October 2011p.100-110

A presentation of Lean Knowledge work. Discussing the benefits and challenges to implement  the Lean management approach used in manufacturing businesses to knowledge work such as software development. The presentation is divided in two parts.

The second part continues from structure and communication.