Argues the need for managers to develop a knowledge perspective in running their businesses. Looks at software companies' high developmental costs with very low production costs. Expresses hope that managers will look closely at how knowledge organizations work, not because they are ‘best’...

Presents a pragmatic approach to knowledge management. Points out that managers have only recently realized that they have had to rely on knowledge for all of their careers. Suggests the good news about knowledge management is that ‘common sense goes a long way’. Posits that a degree of hype...

Argues that the scientist's personal participation is the discovery and validation of this knowledge forms an indispensable part of science itself. Describes two different forms of knowing: tacit and explicit — tacit is personal, context‐specific and, therefore, difficult to communicate;...

States that when information is integrated with skills, understanding and experience, it becomes knowledge which the organization can use to its advantage. Makes use of Figures and a Table to aid in explanation, and a highlighted box covering the UK's Automobile Association and its various...

Proposes to evidence the colonization of the accounting knowledge production process by a relatively few élite institutions in the USA. By examining the doctoral origins of the editorial board members of six major accounting research journals between 1963 and 1994, demonstrates the extent of...

Discusses the current business enthusiasm for intellectual capital and knowledge management and how the librarian should, in principle, take center stage in the intellectual capital and knowledge management process. Proposes a general prescriptive for the process and the librarian′s potential...

Analyses, critically, the interest in “knowledge work” and the “knowledge age”. Arguing that definitions of “knowledge work” and predictions regarding the future trajectories of knowledge organizations are characterized by confusion and ambiguity, calls for a quite different form of...

In discussion with Bruce Lloyd, Lester Thurow, Professor of Management and Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about his new book The Future of Capitalism . Despite the end of communism, or perhaps because of it, Thurow argues that capitalism will be under considerable...

Recent audit research has explored the impact of auditors’ knowledge on various audit judgments. However, for this knowledge to influence the search for and interpretation of audit evidence, it must first be retrieved from the auditor’s knowledge base. At least two organization schemes have...