Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital

Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital

1. Corporate Epistemology

   • Questions
     • What is Knowledge?
     • How do we learn?
     • What is company's knowledge?
     • How can knowledge be measured and valued?
     • Is a new language neccssary?
   • Perspectives
     • Information Processing
       • on how to speed up
     • Network Epistemology
       • On how to connect
     • Self-referential epistemology
       • Knowledge as an individual representaion

2. Precondition on management

   • Understanding how to develop it

3. Research

   • Academic research
     • Positivistic - deductive research
     • Contributors
       • Leonard
         • Syntegration
       • Espejo
         • Self-similar relationships
       • Sveiby
         • Knowledge transfer
       • Whitaker
         • Importance of context
     • Branches
       • Multiple theoretical lenses
       • Single theoretical lens
   • Practical research
     • Lead by business managers
     • Company practices
       • Single
       • Multiple
     • Observation
     • Identification of patterns in knowledge related issues
     • Contributors
       • Galvin
         • Creativity as a vocational skill
       • Sullivan & Edvinsson
         • Distinctive terminology
       • Petrash
         • ten-stage DOW Intellectual Asset Management Model