Knowledge Governance Primer

5 February 2007 at 5:46 am Nicolai Foss 9 comments

| Nicolai Foss |

Along with Euro colleagues such as Prof. Anna Grandori (Bocconi University) and my colleagues at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization here at the Copenhagen Business School I have championed the notion of “knowledge governance” as a distinct perspective on knowledge management that explicitly relies on “rational” organization theory (including organizational economics), is methodologically individualist, etc.

The lead article of the most recent issue of Organization: the Critical Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society (yes, I am publishing in a pomo journal) — a special issue on “the philosophical foundations of knowledge management” edited by Andreas Georg Scherer and JC Spender — is my knowledge governance primer, “The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and Characteristics” (I’d be happy to send you a copy if you cannot access the file). Here is the abstract:

The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge. It insists on clear micro (behavioural) foundations, adopts an economizing perspective, and examines the links between knowledge-based units of analysis with diverse characteristics and governance mechanisms with diverse capabilities of handling these transactions. Research issues that the knowledge governance approach illuminates are sketched.

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9 Comments Add your own

1. Philip Boxer | 6 February 2007 at 6:55 pm

I would be very grateful if you would send me a copy – this work ties in with my own work on asymmetries and in particular the nature of economies of governance. Thanks, Philip
2. Tatjana-Xenia Puhan | 28 February 2007 at 8:48 am

I would be very pleased, if you could send me a copy because I could need it for my master thesis.

Thank you for a lot in advance!

Tanya
3. Deanna Malatesta | 2 March 2007 at 11:11 pm

Please send a copy.I am a PhD student interested in org studies. Thank you.
4. Chay Yue Wah | 9 April 2008 at 9:06 pm

Please send me a copy of your knowledge governance primer, “The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and Characteristics”. I would like to know more about this area of reseach.

Thank you.
5. Dr Syed Rifaat Hussain | 15 October 2008 at 2:10 am

I would be extremely grateful if you could send me a copy of your article and other writings on the same subject. thank you. Dr. Rifaat Hussain
6. Fernando Goldman | 21 July 2009 at 1:18 am

Please send a copy.I am a PhD student interested in Organizational Knowledge.Thank you for a lot in advance!
Fernando Goldman
7. JC Spender | 21 July 2009 at 6:54 am

And if anyone needs a copy of the Spender & Scherer piece they can find it on my website.
8. Andrew | 27 January 2010 at 11:37 am

Please send me a copy too, I am also studying this subject matter intensely.
Thank you.
9. Prajuto | 25 May 2010 at 10:56 pm

Could you send me a copy for my refference. I am writing a KM Manual and I found the K-Governancetopics is still too short.

Best regards,
Prajuto, Sr. CSM Advisor