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Time for Reflection: Going Back to Autopoiesis to Understand Knowledge Management

Time for Reflection: Going Back to Autopoiesis to Understand Knowledge Management
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Author(s): Paul Parboteeah (Loughborough University, UK) and Thomas W. Jackson (Loughborough University, UK)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 4
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch012
ISBN13: 9781599049298

Abstract

The field of Knowledge Management has lots of ideas and models, but the problem lies in that the discipline has no solid foundations on which to build new ideas and developments. A lot of the theory in knowledge management is scientifically unfounded and unproven, possibly a result of the difficulty in testing ideas resulting in numerous debates and leaving little time for new developments in the field. The paper introduces the concept of applying Autopoiesis to the Knowledge Management field in order to provide the discipline with a foundation from which to build.

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