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An extensive legal, moral, and ethical infrastructure supports business transactions and economic values in the industrial economy. This infrastructure is grounded in the concept of tangible property, its production and consumption. Today we have a deeper understanding of the nature of knowledge and its unique economic properties and behaviours. We now understand that a reinterpretation is needed to ensure that healthy and trusted economic knowledge markets exist.
Knowledge Ethics for the Knowledge Economy explores whether an extension or a redefinition of the legal, moral, and ethical infrastructure is needed. The authors review the fundamental assumptions of tangible property markets and transactions and test their applicability to intangible assets.
Given the new properties and principles of the knowledge economy, there is a need to re-examine these properties and principles. This guide provides a proactive and forward-looking perspective for managers to adapt and shape to suit their work environments.
About the author
Jelina Haines is a Policy and Ethics Advocacy Lead at Catalyst Now Oceania Chapter, Chair of Catalyst Now Australia Chapter, ASIS&T SIG Cabinet Deputy Director at the Association for Information Science and Technology, USA.
Norman Mooradian is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and College of Information, Data and Society, San Jose State University, USA.
Benjamin Anyacho is a Senior Strategic Project Manager and Enterprise Knowledge Management Lead at the Texas Department of Transportation, USA.
Cynthia Hilsinger works in the AI Ethics and Knowledge Management Department at Koniag Government Services, USA.
Malgorzata Zieba is an Associate Professor of Management in the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland.
Denise Bedford is Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University, retired Senior Information Officer at the World Bank, and retired Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management at Kent State University.
