Faculty
Mette Mønsted Professor of Knowledge Management, president of EUDOKMA Hans Siggaard Jensen from Learning Lab Denmark and Guest Professor Laurence Prusak

Course Coordinator
Mette Mønsted

The course applies to PhD students

The knowledge management course will focus on the concept of knowledge and organization, and specifically the relationship between knowledge management, knowledge based firms and innovation management. The challenges of handling speed, flexibility and innovativeness, and create organisations and structures for this is on the agenda for most large firms. The course will stress the epistemology of the concept of knowledge, and the consequences of new organisation of knowledge especially for knowledge creation, development of new knowledge, and innovation as an application of new knowledge. In relation to innovation perspectives the boundary of knowledge opens the perspective of management of knowledge under high-level of uncertainty and complexity. These perspectives reflect new demands and conditions in the post-industrial economy.

The course is a part of the European Doctoral School in Knowledge and Management (EUDOKMA) - a European network programme

The Knowledge management course is covering 3 themes within knowledge management: The concept of knowledge as related to Knowledge Management and innovation, Management in networks for innovation, creation of and value of knowledge, and all related to method reflections. The practice of Knowledge and Innovation Management research is not the traditional knowledge management in information systems, but is providing a course with a critical perspective on some of the traditional models and focusing not on classification of knowledge, but on innovation and value of new knowledge. The form of the seminar is a combination of lectures, and discussions with the professors, who will join for several days of the course, creating a form of “summer-school”.

Professor Laurence Prusak who is one of the founders of the field of knowledge management is invited as guest professor. Dean of Education Hans Siggaard Jensen is a philosopher and will present discussions on the knowledge concept, methodology and management theory in a knowledge and innovation perspective. Mette Mønsted will focus on innovation and research management in networks as well as practically discuss the research and method aspects of Knowledge Management. We will secure a focus on research methods and problems in the study of Knowledge and innovation management as a theme going through the presentations and discussions

Understand the concept of knowledge in a management and innovation perspective

Understand how the uncertainty of innovation challenges to management theories

Understand the complexity and ambiguity of managing innovation

Knowledge about methods to study knowledge and innovation management

Lecture plan

Time/period	Faculty	Title
Monday
09.30-10.30	Mette Mønsted, Hans Siggaard and Laurence Prusak	Introduction
10.45-12.30	Mette Mønsted, Hans Siggaard and Laurence Prusak	Management challenges in knowledge and innovation related in the empirical field?
13.15-16.30	Mette Mønsted, Hans Siggaard and Laurence Prusak	Epistemology of the concept of Knowledge and Innovation
Tuesday
9.00-12.30	Mette Mønsted, Hans Siggaard and Laurence Prusak	Discussions on the basis of participants' projects
13.45-16.30	Hans Siggaard Jensen	Management theories and their perception of knowledge and innovation
Wednesday
9.15-12.30	Mette Mønsted, Hans Siggaard Jensen, Laurence Prusak	Evaluation and Method. Consequences for researchers and managers
13.30-17.00	Laurence Prusak	Value of knowledge and the potential for innovation
Thursday
9.15-12.30	Laurence Prusak	The future of knowledge management in knowledge based firms.
13.30-15.00	Mette Mønsted	Organising in networks for knowledge
15.00-16.00	Mette Mønsted	Course evaluation

The form of the seminar is a combination of lectures, and discussions in class with the invited professors, who will join for several days of the course, creating a form of “summer-school”. The discussion of student projects involve students and professors.

Alvesson, Mats and Stefan Sveningsson (2003) Good Visions, Bad Micro-management and Ugly Ambiguity: Contradictions of (Non-)Leadership in a Knowledge-Intensive Organization, Organization Studies, 24(6): 961–988

Birkinshaw, J.,Hamel, G., Mol, M.J. (2008) Management Innovation Academy of Management Review vol. 33,no. 4 pp 825-845

Hansson, F. & M. Mønsted (2008) : Research Leadership as entrepreneurial organizing for research. Higher Education vol. 55 pp 651-670

Jensen, Hans Siggaard History of the concept of knowledge (2000). Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 1 - 16

Jensen, Hans Siggaard (2008): Management and Learning in the Knowledge society. The journal of Regional analysis & Policy. Vol 38, no. 2 pp. 130-137

Mønsted, M (2008). Management and networking for collaboration. In Hansson, F., Brenneche, N.T., Mønsted, M. & Fransson, T (2008) SUCCESS – WORK PACKAGE 1. Benchmarking Successful Models of Cooperation. Appendix 3.5 15 p.

Tsoukas, H. & Vladimirou, E. (2001) What is organizational knowledge? Journal of Management Studies. Vol. 38 no. 7, November pp. 973-993

Davenport, T. & L. Prusak (2003 )What's the Big Idea? Creating and capitalizing on the best management ideas. Harvard Business School Press. Chapter #8, Knowledge Management, pps. 179-195

Easterby-Smith, M. & M. A: Lyles (eds.) (2003) Handbook of Organizational learning and knowledge management, Blackwell publishing. London

-Vera and Crossan: “Organizational learning and knowledge management: toward an integrative framework”, Chapt. 7 pp. 122-141

- Calhoun and Starbuck: “Barriers to creating knowledge”, chapt. 24 pp. 473-492

McKinlay, A. 2000 The Bearable lightness of Control: Organisational Reflexivity and the politics of Knowledge Management. In Prichard, Hull, Chumer and Willmott (eds.) Managing Knowledge, Critical Investigations of work and learning. Macmillan Business. London pp.107-121

Taylor, F.W. (1947)Scientific Management. Scientific Management ,Harper & Row. Pp. 39-73,

Laurence Prusak (2001) Where did knowledge management come from? IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL, VOL 40, NO 4,

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/prusak.html

Gourlay, S. (2006) Towards conceptual clarity for ‘tacit knowledge’: a review of empirical studies Knowledge Management Research & Practice 4, 60–69

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/journal/v4/n1/pdf/8500082a.pdf

Gourlay, S. (2004): The SECI model of knowledge creation: some empirical shortcomings

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sngourlay/PDFs/Gourlay%202004%20SECI.pdf

Other useful references and notes:

Jensen, Hans Siggaard : (2007) Research on Innovation. Perspectives and views on processes of innovation. Note for LAICS course.

Jensen, Hans Siggaard: ( 2008) The role of ambiguity in innovation. Teaching note.

There are no suggested readings at the moment.

Send the applicationform to Anja Dupont ( ad.lpf@cbs.dk) no later than 24 April, 2009