Managing Knowledge

Introduction/PART ONE: REPRESENTATIONISM: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO VIEWING KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND COOPERATIVE STRATEGIES/Representationism/The Traditional Approach to Cooperative Strategies/Imitation of Knowledge/A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective/Towards a Theory of Knowledge Transfer in a Cooperative Context/The Impact of Individual and Organizational Learning on Formation and Management of Organizational Cooperation/Arguments on Knowledge and Competence/Knowledge-Based Strategic Change/Restructuring/Avoiding the Phantom Limb Effect/PART TWO: ANTI-REPRESENTATIONISM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN ORGANIZATIONAL COOPERATION/An Essay on Corporate Epistemology/Knowledge Creation through Cooperative Experimentation/A Note on the Epistemology of Globalizing Firms/Conversation Management for Knowledge Development/Afterword/An Agenda for Practice and Future Research