While there are many books on knowledge management, knowledge
governance is a concept that has not been so well explored, and is
much less understood. Knowledge governance refers to choosing
structures and mechanisms that can influence the processes of
sharing and creating knowledge.
The book argues that knowledge governance is a distinct issue in
management and organization because knowledge processes differ on
several dimensions from routine and more traditional processes. The
relationship between governance issues and knowledge processes is¦
under-researched, theoretically as well as empirically.
Thematically, knowledge governance cuts across fields such as
general management, human resource management, the management of
intellectual capital, innovation theory, strategic management,
technology strategy, and international business. Not surprisingly,
existing ideas are developed from the perspectives of different
fields and from different underlying disciplinary foundations;
however, it often remains unclear how these ideas relate together
and how they differ in terms of unit of analysis, mode of analysis,
underlying logic and assumptions, etc.
This book is an important step towards overcoming the existing
fragmentation in the field by providing a multi-disciplinary
collection of chapters on knowledge governance. While the single
chapters accentuate the pluralism in the field, they all examine
issues that constitute the essence of knowledge governance.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0199235929/

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