The idea of knowledge work has been around for some time. Mintzberg spoke about “knowledge intensive firms” outlining differences between knowledge intensive organizations and professional bureaucracies. A professional bureaucracy, for instance, typically relies on standardized knowledge,...

The paper is primarily directed towards, but not confined to, the activities of larger commercial enterprises and questions the authority by which knowledge and integrity are legitimated in such enterprises and to do this we revisit Lyotard's (1984: 9) pertinent questions: Who decides what...

This book addresses contemporary contexts of flexible learning and its practices, and looks at the directions in which education and training providers may be required to go, in order to implement flexible learning