Architectures of Knowledge

Firms, Capabilities, and Communities
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-925332-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Key Features:

- The book is the synthesis of an innovative encounter between a socio-spatial theorist and an economist.
- Draws on a variety of research from across the social sciences.
- Theory is illustrated with a rich seam of boxed examples and cases.
- Authors have international replantation and track record.

Description:

"This book is, in my opinion, a real tour de force. It convincingly assembles together the most advanced research in different disciplines: economics, science and technology studies, cognitive sciences (including situated and distributed cognition), and management science; and in doing so is one of the first systematic attempts to find a common thread between these disciplines. The book develops a framework that allows each theoretical approach its own niche. Neither syncretism, nor eclecticism, but a real integration."
Professor Michel Callon, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, author of The Laws of the Markets, (Blackwell Publishing, 1998)

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in economics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the book assembles together the most advanced research in different disciplines: economics, science and technology studies, cognitive sciences (including situated and distributed cognition), economic geography, and managment science. Placing the concept of community at the very centre of the argument, the book arrives at an understanding of the way in which new pieces of knowledge are created and mobilised in economic activities.

Competition:

Re-Thinking Science by Nowotny, Scott, and Gibbons. Published 2001 £15.99. Publisher: Polity Press.

The Knowing-Doing Gap by Pfeffer and Sutton. Published 2000 £18.59. Publisher: HBS Press.

Cultivating Communities of Practice by Wenger, McDermott and Snyder. Published 2002 £18.59. Publisher: Harvard Business School Press.

The Social Life of Information by Brown and Duguid. Published 2002 £12.99. Publisher: Harvard Business School Press.

Knowledge, Space, Economy by Bryson, Henry, Pollard, and Daniels. Published 2000 £21.99. Publisher: Routledge.

In Good Company by Cohen and Prusak. Published 2001 £17.07. Publisher: Harvard Business School Press.

Contents:

Placing Knowledge; Economics of Knowledge Reconsidered; The Firm as a Locus of Competence Building; Practices of Knowing; Spaces of Knowing; Communities and Governance of Knowledge; Public Policy Implications

Zielgruppe

Post graduate students and researchers in organizations, knowledge management, business economics, science studies, economic sociology, economic geography and innovation studies in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amin, Ash

Cohendet, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Placing Knowledge

- 2: Economics of Knowledge Reconsidered

- 3: The Firm as a Locus of Competence Building

- 4: Practices of Knowing

- 5: Spaces of Knowing

- 6: Communities and Governance of Knowledge

- 7: Public Policy Implications

Über Autor(innen)

Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at Durham University. He has held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Naples, Venice, Bologna, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Uppsala. He is a founding co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy and co-editor of Cities. He was Member of the Steering Committee of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) from its foundation in 1989 to 1999. He was member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Priorities Board from 1997 to 2001. He is an academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. His research interests lie in the fields of urban and regional development, the geography of the post-mass production economy, spatialities of globalisation, governance alternatives to market and hierarchy, urban democracy and the multicultural city, the geography of the social economy, and the cultural economy.

Patrick Cohendet is Professor of Economics at University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France. He has held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the Universities of UVA (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA), Toyo (Tokyo, Japan), and HEC-Montréal (Canada). He is one of the co-founders and members of BETA (Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée), a research group in economics and management of the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. He is member of the commitee of national research (CNRS) in economics and management. He was Member of CADAS (comité d'applications de l'académie des sciences ) from 1989 to 1999. His research interests lie in the fields of economics of innovation, economics of knowledge, theory of the firm, theory of decision, industrial organization and research policy.