"The Tacit Dimension" argues that tacit knowledge -tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments- is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. This volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief ...

Knowledge has become the most important fact of economic life. It is the chief ingredient of what we buy and sell, the raw material with which we work. In the new economy, intellectual capital not natural resources, machinery or even financial ...

The authors contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative--and not merely masters of imitation as some think--and because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Illustrations.

Experienced consultants with a track record of success examine how all types of companies can effectively understand, analyze, measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporate wisdom into market value.

Managing Knowledge is an extensive and eminently readable overview of the most important ideas, tools and current applications of knowledge management. The authors rely on an innovative 'building block' approach and provide a detailed description ...

Sveiby offers practical advice on how to manage knowledge companies - such as accounting firms, management consulting firms, advertising agencies and computer consultants - and their employees

Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation.

The closing decades of the twentieth century have been characterized as a period of disruption and discontinuity in which the structure and meaning of economy, polity, and society have been radically altered. In this volume Peter Drucker focuses ...

The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and ...