Knowledge Management Foundations

From the Publisher: 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 be of interest to both KM academics and practitioners.