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'Knowledge Management Foundations' is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad of practices called "knowledge management." A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep understanding of both the history of management theory and knowledge production more generally enables him to separate the wheat from the chaff of the KM literature.
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | What Knowledge Management Has Managed to Do to Knowledge | 1 |
| 1 | Much Ado about Knowledge: Why Now? | 2 |
| 2 | Knowledge and Information: The Great Bait and Switch | 16 |
| 3 | The Scientist: KM's Enemy Number One? | 20 |
| 4 | The KM Challenge to Knowledge in Theory and Practice | 23 |
| 5 | Back to Basics: Rediscovering the Value of Knowledge in Rent, Wage, Profit | 36 |
| 6 | The Epistemic Empire Strikes Back: Metapublic Goods and the Injection of Academic Values into Corporate Enterprise | 44 |
| 7 | Squaring the KM Circle: Who's Afraid of Accelerating the Production of New Knowledge? | 49 |
| 2 | Making Knowledge Matter: Philosophy, Economics, and Law | 57 |
| 1 | The Basic Philosophical Obstacle to Knowledge Management | 58 |
| 2 | The Creation of Knowledge Markets: The Idea of an Epistemic Exchange Rate | 67 |
| 3 | Intellectual Property as the Nexus of Epistemic Validity and Economic Value | 81 |
| 4 | Interlude: Is the Knowledge Market Saturated or Depressed?: Do We Know Too Much or Too Little? | 93 |
| 5 | Recapitualation: From Disciplines and Professions to Intellectual Property Law | 96 |
| 6 | The Legal Epistemology of Intellectual Property | 98 |
| 7 | Epilogue: Alienating Knowledge from the Knower and the Commodification of Expertise | 106 |
| 3 | Information Technology as the Key to the Knowledge Revolution | 116 |
| 1 | Introduction: From Epistemology to Information Technology | 117 |
| 2 | The Post-Industrial Dream: The Intellectualization of Information Technology | 125 |
| 3 | Society's Shifting Human-Computer Interface: An Historical Overview | 137 |
| 4 | From Expertise to Expert Systems | 143 |
| 5 | Why Even Scholars Don't Get a Free Lunch in Cyberspace | 167 |
| 6 | Postscript: Capitalized Education as the Ultimate Information Technology | 191 |
| 4 | A Civic Republican Theory of Knowledge Management | 196 |
| 1 | The Historical and Philosophical Bases of Civic Republicanism | 197 |
| 2 | A Distinguished False Lead: Michael Polanyi's "Republic of Science," | 203 |
| 3 | In Search of Republican Vehicles for Knowledge Management | 211 |
| 4 | Historic Threats to the Republican Constitution of the University | 220 |
| 5 | The Challenge of Contract Academic Workers to the University's Republican Constitution | 225 |
| 6 | Conclusion: A Civic Republican Agenda for the Academic CEO of Tomorrow | 229 |
| App | What's Living and Dead in Peer-Review Processes? | 232 |
| Conclusion: The Mixed Root Metaphor of Knowledge Management | 252 | |
| References | 254 | |
| Index | 270 |
Overview
Knowledge Management Foundations is just what it claims, the first attempt to provide a secure intellectual footing for the myriad practices called "knowledge management" (KM). A breath of fresh air from the usual KM gurus, Fuller openly admits that the advent of KM is a mixed blessing that often amounts to the conduct of traditional management by subtler means. However, Fuller's deep understanding of both the history of management theory and knowledge production more generally enables him to separate the wheat from the chaff of the KM literature. Ending with a positive re-evaluation of universities as knowledge producing institutions from which the corporate sector still has much to learn, this groundbreaking book will ...