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Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
Responding to organizational challenges by blaming external forces for problem rather than examining how individual and organizational behavior plays a role in creating the challenges.
Published in Chapter:
Are Research Universities Knowledge-Intensive Learning Organizations?
Davydd J. Greenwood (Cornell University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-176-6.ch001
Abstract
This chapter questions the clarity of the concepts of “knowledge society” and “knowledge-intensive organization”. In particular, the author asserts that the notion that postindustrial society is more knowledge intensive than industrial society is a self-serving proposition made by academics and organizational consultants to emphasize the importance of their own industries. Since all organizations are knowledgeintensive in major ways, the specific meanings of a newly emergent kind of knowledge-intensive organization need to be clarified. The author undertakes this by means of an analysis of research universities.
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