Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2006) 4, 77–79. doi:10.1057/palgrave.kmrp.8500086 There are very few monographs that cover strategic knowledge management, although a larger volume of books have addressed strategic information management. This book suggests an even further specialization with the addition of technology as a suffix in the title, although the operative word in the overall title is actually strategic. The book could be used as an undergraduate or graduate level supplementary text in Business and Management, Strategic Management (SM), Information Science (ISc), Information Technology (IT), Information Systems (IS)/MIS, and Knowledge Management (KM). This monograph is suited for an existing course where SM, IT, and KM are covered. In Strategic Knowledge Management Technology, Petter Gottschalk describes a theoretical and practitioner perspective of the application of information technology to knowledge management in the firm as well as information systems to organizational knowledge-based activities. His perspective is based upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, which suggests that knowledge management activities in an organization are directly supported by information systems. The author specifically presents an international case at the end of each chapter and a survey of lawyers and law firms to illustrate how knowledge-intensive work is supported by IT. Dr. Petter Gottschalk is Professor of Information Management at the Norwegian School of Management. His primary undergraduate and graduate teaching interests are strategic knowledge management technology. His base for teaching includes both Norway and China. As one would expect from the case studies used, he conducts knowledge management research in law firms in Norway and Australia. Professor Gottschalk’s academic genealogy is international, and includes: