[...]... 2003, with Gert Van der Linden) • Complexity, learning and organisations: the quantum structure of business (Routledge, 2005) XIV KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING His research and consulting interests are in complexity, innovation, knowledge management, management learning and the quantumstructure of organisations KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING XV Principle Bio's Marie-Joelle... is the complexity paradigm: dynamic and non-linear systems behaviour NOTION (The Nyenrode Institute for Knowledge KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING Management and Virtual Education), and in particular myself, have hosted and tutored these projects The outcome is a number of new and promising, practically relevant approaches to knowledge management and learning, researched in real life companies... crucial role that knowledge management, learning and innovation play in a company, and by answering the previous questions, can we make these concepts more KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING applicable and usable for companies? My research interest was and still is mainly focused on the triangle "knowledge, learning and innovation" I am convinced that the difference in management is made... can see why knowledge management is a new and fundamental corporate activity Complexity theory allows us to understand why knowledge is a corporate asset and why and how it should be managed The lenses of complexity theory allow us to say that knowledge management is not just another activity of importance for a company 10 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING A number of knowledge management. .. of knowledge creation and knowledge management KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING 1.4 19 What should be understood by Knowledge Management: the corporate view Remember that this chapter attempts to present the complete picture of knowledge management, starting from the paradigm, covering the infrastructure and process, with the aim of clarifying the subject of study Though the corporate and. .. realities is the boundary condition for knowledge management and that is the learning culture of the company On top of the mere fact that the most interesting knowledge is implicit and therefore 'stored' in people, it is the dynamics of the knowledge creation and sharing 12 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING activity (for simplicity let us call this 'learning) where the people appear in the... origins and consequences 266 14.8 Adaptive evolution of knowledge structure 277 14.9 Effects of standardization on knowledge structure 281 14.10 The process of change 282 14.11 Conclusions 285 15 Emergent learning processes in innovation projects 287 XII KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING 15.1 Introduction 287 15.2 The constructed dualism between innovating and learning 288 15.3 Learning, ... from learning in the workplace to knowledge infrastructure, via e -learning, knowledge representation, innovation and learning, knowledge culture and learning, knowledge technologies, etc) With that aim, a number of companies (Philips, SaraLee/DE, Achmea, Atos/Origin and Microsoft) have sponsored a research team, under my direction, for a period of five years, in order to explore new approaches in knowledge. .. ORGANISATIONAL PARADIGM IN THE KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY 1.1 Introduction A lot has been said and written about knowledge management, probably starting with the proponents of the learning organization on the one hand, and Nonaka's view of knowledge management on the other hand Increasingly, authors have added the subject to their vocabulary and the more that the 'general management thinkers' have got... consequences, and in doing so, suggest many lessons learned which will be of use in practice The introductory theory and framework for the different projects is compiled out of a number of my earlier books: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING • • • • • • Bob Galliers and Walter Baets, Information Technology and Organizational Transformation, Wiley , 1998 Walter Baets, Organizational learning and Knowledge . 47 4. Knowledge management and management learning: what computers can still do 59 4.1 Knowledge and Learning 59 4.2 Knowledge Management Technologies 74 VIII KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING 4.3. (Routledge, 2005) XIV KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING His research and consulting interests are in complexity, innovation, knowledge management, management learning and the quantumstructure. for Knowledge KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING Management and Virtual Education), and in particular myself, have hosted and tutored these projects. The outcome is a number of new and