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Learning outcomes |
• Provide an insight into the importance and role of Knowledge Management and how it enables organizations to increase their competitiveness.
• Develop the main theories and draw attention to its importance in the development of scientific knowledge.
At the end of the course students should:
• Have a thorough overview of the importance and role of Knowledge Management and how it enables organizations to identify, acquire, store, analyze, distribute, and reuse in a systematic information and knowledge to increase their productivity and competitiveness.
• Know the main underlying theoretical contributions to Knowledge Management.
• Know the main background to these theories.
• Be able to use qualitative research methodologies.
• Having the ability to investigate issues related to Knowledge Management and Organizational Wisdom.
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Main Bibliography |
Bierly III, Paul E., Kessler, Eric H. and Christensen, Edward W. (2000), "Organizational learning, knowledge and wisdom", Journal of Organizational Change Management, vol. 13, No. 6, p. 595-618
Bueno Campos, Eduardo (2003), "Approaches tendencies en dirección y principales del conocimiento (knowledge management);" Dirección del conocimiento: Desarrollos theoretical y aplicaciones, edited by Ricardo Hernandez Mogollon, Ediciones La Coria, Trujillo, p. 21-54
Davenport, Thomas H. and Prusak, Laurence (1998), "Working Knowledge - How Organizations Manage What They Know", Harvard Business School Press, Boston
Drucker, Peter F. (1993), "Post-capitalist society", HarperCollins Publishers
Nonaka, Ikujiro and Takeuchi, Hirotaka (1995), "The Knowledge-creating company: How Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation", Oxford University Press
(There are many other articles and books that are used)
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