Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Data, Information, and Knowledge: Have We Got It Right?; 2. Crossing Epistemological Boundaries: Managerial and Entrepreneurial Approaches to Knowledge Management; 3. Codification, Abstraction, and Firm Differences: A Cognitive Information-based Perspective; 4. Organizational versus Market Knowledge: From Concrete Embodiment to Abstract Representation; 5. Moving to the Edge of Chaos: Bureaucracy, IT, and the Challenge of Complexity
Summary
With the rise of the knowledge economy, the knowledge content of goods and services is going up just as their material content is declining. Economic value is seen to reside in intangible assets, rather than material. This book explores the framework of 'I-Space' - a theoretical approach to the production and distribution of knowledge
