Organizational Learning and Knowledge Technologies in a Dynamic Environment

Walter R. J. Baets

ISBN 10: 0792385306 / ISBN 13: 9780792385301

Editore: Springer US Apr 1999, 1999

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I am not a born academic. I deliberately joined the ranks of academia at a fairly late stage as a natural progression from my professional career as an executive in what in those days was known as 'decision support'. My career had begun in the telecom industry before the days of deregulation in what one would call strategic planning and then I moved on to decision support in the field of banking, developing trading room software and risk management systems. As I developed decision support systems for real applications, the more I realized how very dependent these systems are on decision design. I began to question a number of basic business assumptions. I felt increasingly the need to review the way decision support systems were conceived at the time since they not only limited what one could do with computers, but also limited the decision-making capacity of executives. I thus decided to take time out from my professional obligations in order to be able to investigate the 'whys and wherefores' behind decision-making. I experienced yet another disappointment at the beginning of my academic career as I noted the academic research style prevailing in most Business Schools. The academic community was adhering to a type of research methodology based on a single view of the way humans think. 292 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Technologies in a Dynamic Environment
• Editore: Springer US Apr 1999
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792385306
• ISBN 13: 9780792385301
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 240 L x 160 A x 16 P (millimetri) 240 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 471 grammi

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Riassunto

The foundational concepts discussed emerge from such fields as neurobiology, cognitive sciences, physics, and organizational theory. These are applied to management and substantiated with examples. New developments in knowledge management, such as connectionist approaches, are outlined and illustrated with real cases. The author further describes an approach for developing knowledge networks in companies. The annex offers readers with an advanced interest in the matter an epistemological discussion on scientific methods for management research and touches in a broader sense on the measurability of management processes.

Contenuti

Foreword. 1. The Chaos we Can Observe in Management. 2. What Can we Learn From Dynamic Behavior of Systems. 3. About Knowledge, Perceptions and Learning: Managing the Mental Map of a Company. 4. Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management and Learning. 5. Experiments with Neural Networks. 6. Experiments with Complexity and Dynamic Systems. 7. IT Support for Organizational Learning: The Organization of Knowledge Networks. 8. A Roadmap of Management in a Dynamic Environment. Epilogue: Sailing By(e). Annex: An Epistemological Voyage through Connectionism and Positivism (co-authored by G. van der Linden.) Further Readings. Subject Index. Author Index.