What is the role of virtues for governing knowledge? A management perspective

The series of interdisciplinary workshops on business ethics that this paper was written forhas started out with looking at the governance of ethics from a general perspective. In mypaper for last year’s workshop1, I have started out looking at governance by asking what itmeans to consider multiple dimensions of governance (finance, human resource, ethics,knowledge, etc.) simultaneously. In that paper, my emphasis was on the interdependenciesbetween these different dimensions, on the impact of governance structures also on dimensionsthey were not designed to influence (for instance, of mechanisms of financial control onhuman resources), and on repercussions between different governance structures applied atthe same time...