Autopoietic Knowledge Systems in Project-Based Companies [electronic resource] /
Koskinen, K.author.
This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgements; 1 Autopoietic Knowledge Systems: An Alternative View of Project-Based Companies; 2 Project Business; 3 Systemic View and Systems Thinking; 4 Autopoiesis; 5 Epistemological Assumptions; 6 Knowledge Dividend; 7 Evolution and Learning; 8 Components of the Project-Based Company When it is Regarded as an Autopoietic Knowledge System; 9 Two Major Knowledge Flows; 10 The Project-Based Company as an Autopoietic Knowledge System; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book gives an alternative observational scheme to better understand knowledge creation and learning in project-based companies. It builds upon emergent new ways of looking at projects which is important - as any discipline stays alive by reflection and re-framing ideas as they are challenged, argued and clarified.
Knowledge management.
Production management.
Leadership.
Project management.
Management.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Knowledge Management.
Operations Management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Project Management.
Management.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.