Managing Knowledge

• Introduction - Georg von Krogh and Johan RoosPART ONE: REPRESENTATIONISM: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO VIEWING KNOWLEDGE, KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND COOPERATIVE STRATEGIESRepresentationism - John Harald Aadne, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos The Traditional Approach to Cooperative StrategiesImitation of Knowledge - Georg von Krogh and Johan RoosA Sociology of Knowledge PerspectiveTowards a Theory of Knowledge Transfer in a Cooperative Context - Ken Wathne, Johan Roos and Georg von KroghThe Impact of Individual and Organizational Learning on Formation and Management of Organizational Cooperation - Marjorie Lyles, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Dirk KleineArguments on Knowledge and Competence - Georg von Krogh and Johan RoosKnowledge-Based Strategic Change - Thorvald H[di]aerem, Georg von Krogh and Johan Roos Restructuring - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Thorvald H[di]aerem Avoiding the Phantom Limb EffectPART TWO: ANTI-REPRESENTATIONISM: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER IN ORGANIZATIONAL COOPERATIONAn Essay on Corporate Epistemology - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Ken SlocumKnowledge Creation through Cooperative Experimentation - Salvatore Vicari, Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Volker MahnkeA Note on the Epistemology of Globalizing Firms - Georg von Krogh, Johan Roos and Georg YipConversation Management for Knowledge Development - Georg von Krogh and Johan RoosAfterword - Georg von Krogh and Johan RoosAn Agenda for Practice and Future Research

`The work is a scholarly treatise and all contributors have displayed remarkable prowess in conceptualisation. Yet, every theme has been examined so that the practising manager may be provided with guidelines.... With commedable methodological rigour, the authors have drawn extensively from meticulously researched work in the fields of sociology of knowledge and strategic management and then formulated their own integrative model. Their work is characterised by both depth and breadth.... important and intellectually challenging′ - Management Review (India)