Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies

This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.

List of contents

Autopoietic Knowledge System: An Alternative Way to See Project-based Company Project Business Systemic View and Systems Thinking Autopoiesis Epistemological Assumptions Knowledge Dividend Evolution and Learning Components of the Project-based Company When it is Regarded as an Autopoietic Knowledge System Two Major Knowledge Flows Project-based Company as an Autopoietic Knowledge System

About the author

DR KAJ U. KOSKINEN has worked for many years as a Project Manager in several international engineering companies, including Outokumpu and Honeywell. His main experience derives from process automation. Since 1997 he has been a Senior Lecturer (Docent) in Industrial Management and Engineering at Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland. Dr Koskinen's research interest is focused on knowledge and project management, and he has published several articles and together with Professor Emeritus Pekka Pihlanto the book Knowledge Management in Project-Based Companies: An Organic Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan 2008).

Summary

This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.

Product details

• Authors: K Koskinen, K. Koskinen
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9781349326396
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32639-6
• No. of pages: 227
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 13 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 227 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, Operations Research, B, Leadership, Business Strategy/Leadership, Knowledge Management, Operations Management, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research and Decision Theory, Project management, business strategy, Management & management techniques, Management decision making, Management science, Management of specific areas, Operational research, Decision Making, Production management, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection