Knowledge coordination / / Flávio Soares Corrêa da Silva, Jaume Agustí-Cullell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143211203321
• Autore: Silva Flávio Soares Corrêa da
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-27093-4; 9786610270934; 0-470-29873-1; 0-470-85835-4; 0-470-85836-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Agustí i CullellJaume
• Disciplina: 620.00285574; 658.4038
• Soggetti: Knowledge management; Information resources; Organization; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Knowledge Coordination; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Management, Engineering and Society; 1.2 Goals and Motivations of this Book; 1.3 Intended Audience; 1.4 Overview of Chapters; References; 2 Knowledge; 2.1 Knowledge and Management; 2.1.1 Knowledge and the classical school of management; 2.1.1.1 Frederick W. Taylor and Henry Ford; 2.1.1.2 Henri Fayol and Max Weber; 2.1.1.3 Chester Irving Barnard; 2.1.2 Knowledge and the socio-technical school of management; 2.2 So What Is Knowledge and Where Can We Find It?; 2.2.1 Knowledge as special information2.2.2 Knowledge as justified true belief; 2.2.3 Knowledge as status of an agency; 2.2.4 Knowledge as the skill to provide meaning to data; 2.2.5 Knowledge as the capability to change the world; 2.2.6 Knowledge and agencies; References; 3 Agents; 3.1 Agents for Knowledge Modelling; 3.2 Agents for Organizational Modelling and Design; 3.2.1 Agencies and ; knowledge in the different schools of management; References; 4 Ontologies; 4.1 Ontologies - Natural and Artificial; 4.2 Implementing and Using Artificial Ontologies; 4.3 Illustrative Example I: The Resources-Events-Agents Enterprise Ontology4.4 Illustrative Example II: The National Academic CVs Database in Brazil - Lattes; 4.5 Natural Ontologies and Knowledge Coordination; References; 5 Capabilities; 5.1 Managing Capabilities; 5.2 Structures of Capability Providers; 5.3 Examples; 5.3.1 Mobile robots; 5.3.2 Conference speakers; 5.3.3 Other examples; 5.4 Assessing Knowledge Coordination; 5.4.1 Minimize(delegations)/(task); 5.4.2 Minimize(agents)/(task); 5.4.3 Maximize probability of cross-delegation of tasks; References; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Knowledge management has become an important topic for the theory and practice of organisation management. Knowledge Coordination argues that coordination is a key factor for managing knowledge within organisations. By offering a clearcut conceptualisation of knowledge, it fills an important gap in the literature on knowledge management. Based on the authors' rational reconstruction of knowledge coordination for knowledge management, this text identifies techniques and conceptual tools to build systemic solutions to improve on corporate operational efficacy. Contrasts business strat