Purpose: The emergence of “knowledge economies” brings along new lenses to organizational management and behaviour. One of the key concepts at the heart of this new wave is knowledge management (KM). The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize how KM is taught and discussed within the context of business schools around the UK.
Lancaster University*
British Academy of Management Conference (BAM Conference)*
- Tracks: Knowledge and Learning (Special interest Group)
Educating Knowledge Managers: A Competence-Based Approach
Abstract: The emerging knowledge economy and society bring new challenges to organizations, managers and workers: the accelerating pace of innovation in products, services and processes; the growing importance of work that requires extensive education, experience and judgment; and the escalating complexity of knowledge, which becomes increasingly distributed and changeable, among others. The field of knowledge
EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW)*
The EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), formerly the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), branded as “The International venue/conference on Practice-centred computing and the Design of cooperation technologies”, is a series of conferences on computer-supported cooperative work located in Europe. The conference series is affiliated with EUSSET – the European Society
Graduate programs related to Knowledge Management
Abstract: Knowledge management spans numerous disciplines, so it is not surprising that graduate level programs in KM have their roots in diverse fields. Some have emerged from library science and focus on the management of information, including records management. Others come from an IT perspective and offer enterprise information systems or database management programs.