Knowledge Options And Institutions

Author : Bruce Kogut
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191536075
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Options, and Institutions written by Bruce Kogut and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues, such as technology transfer and licensing, joint ventures as options, and the diffusion of ideas and best practices in the world economy. In an extensive introduction to these chapters, Kogut grounds this view in recent work in neurosciences and behavioural experiments in human sociality. On this basis, he provides a critique of leading schools of thought in management, including the resource based view of the firm cognition, and experimental economics. He proposes that people are hardwired to learn social norms and to develop identities that conform to social categories. This foundation supports a concept of coordination among people that is inscribed in social communities. It is this concept that leads to a theory of the firm as derived from social knowledge and shared identities. Kogut argues that the resource based view of the firm is only a view and it fails as a theory because it lacks a behavioural foundation. If it were to choose one, the choice would be between knowledge and organizational economics. Similarly, he argues that recent statements regarding cognition do not confront the age-old question of shared templates. If it did, it too would have to confront a theory of social knowledge. The author then proposes that this foundation is essential to an understanding of norms and institutions as well. Thus, we are moving into a period in which rapid advances in neuroscience increasingly lead to an integrated foundation for the social sciences. This opening chapter is the gateway to the collected essays, which assemble the author's published articles on knowledge, options, and institutions. The book ends on the most recent work on open source software and generating rules. The chapter on open source discusses how new technology is changing the face of innovation. The final article on generating rules is the segue to the author's current work that looks at how simple rules of social exchange leads to complex patterns of local and global knowledge.

Author : Lucy Montgomery
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542439
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Knowledge Institutions written by Lucy Montgomery and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of the university as an open knowledge institution that institutionalizes diversity and contributes to a common resource of knowledge: a manifesto. In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit of humanity. Calling on universities to adopt transparent protocols for the creation, use, and governance of these resources, the authors draw on cutting-edge theoretical work, offer real-world case studies, and outline ways to assess universities’ attempts to achieve openness. Digital technologies have already brought about dramatic changes in knowledge format and accessibility. The book describes further shifts that open knowledge institutions must make as they move away from closed processes for verifying expert knowledge and toward careful, mediated approaches to sharing it with wider publics. It examines these changes in terms of diversity, coordination, and communication; discusses policy principles that lay out paths for universities to become fully fledged open knowledge institutions; and suggests ways that openness can be introduced into existing rankings and metrics. Case studies—including Wikipedia, the Library Publishing Coalition, Creative Commons, and Open and Library Access—illustrate key processes.

Author : Brian Loasby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134627246
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics written by Brian Loasby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how the limitations of human knowledge creates opportunities as well as problems in the modern economy.

Author : Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Management in the Learning Society written by Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book was released on 2000-02-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious attempt to address issues of knowledge production and sharing through a better understanding of knowledge and learning processes at a sectorial level.

Author : Javier Calvo de Mora
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429666195
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World written by Javier Calvo de Mora and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has two purposes: To open up the debate on the role of informal education in schooling systems and to suggest the kind of school organizational environment that can best facilitate the recognition of informal learning. Successive chapters explore what is often seen as a duality between informal and formal learning. This duality is particularly so because education systems expend so much time and effort in certifying formal knowledge often expressed in school subjects reflecting academic disciplines.Recognizing the contribution informal learning can make to young people’s understanding and development does not negate the importance of valued social knowledge: That complements it. Students come to school with knowledge learnt from their families, peers, the community and both traditional and social media. They should not have to "unlearn" this in order to enter the world of formal learning. Rather, students’ different learning "worlds" should be integrated so that each informs the other. In a knowledge-based society, all learning needs to be valued. Some contributors to this book reflect on how new educational systems could be created in a move away from top-down authoritarian and bureaucratic management. Such open systems are seen to be more welcoming in acknowledging the importance of informal learning. Others provide practical examples of how informal learning is currently recognized. Some attention is also paid to the evaluation of informal learning. A key objective of the work presented here is to stimulate debate about the role of informal learning in knowledge-based societies and to stimulate thinking about the kind of reforms needed to create more open and more democratic school learning environments.

Author : Reinhold Martin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548575
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Worlds written by Reinhold Martin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women’s colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing media theory, architectural history, and the history of academia, Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex comprising a network of infrastructures and operations through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that the material infrastructures of the modern university—the architecture of academic buildings, the configuration of seminar tables, the organization of campus plans—reveal the ways in which knowledge is created and reproduced in different kinds of institutions. He reconstructs changes in aesthetic strategies, pedagogical techniques, and political economy to show how the boundaries that govern higher education have shifted over the past two centuries. From colleges chartered as rights-bearing corporations to research universities conceived as knowledge factories, educating some has always depended upon excluding others. Knowledge Worlds shows how the division of intellectual labor was redrawn as new students entered, expertise circulated, science repurposed old myths, and humanists cultivated new forms of social and intellectual capital. Combining histories of architecture, technology, knowledge, and institutions into a critical media history, Martin traces the uneven movement in the academy from liberal to neoliberal reason.

Author : Bruce Mitchel Kogut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383042825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Options, and Institutions written by Bruce Mitchel Kogut and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. This book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues.

Author : Guyo Malicha Roba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Institutions and Knowledge in Natural Resource Management in Project Pilot Districts of Mbeere-North, Kyuso, Narok-North and Dadaab written by Guyo Malicha Roba and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jens Kai Perret
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642402798
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge as a Driver of Regional Growth in the Russian Federation written by Jens Kai Perret and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Federation has a history of more than twenty years of transformation to a market economy, but as well to a knowledge society, to look back on. This study takes a look at the knowledge generation, knowledge transmission and knowledge use inside the Federation since the early 1990s. Furthermore, in light of the high dependence of the Russian economy on the oil and gas sectors this study analyzes the impact knowledge related factors have on regional income generation following thereby in the direction of Schumpeterian growth theory. The study combines descriptive with empirical analyses to paint a picture as detailed as possible of the Russian knowledge society and its innovative potential. ​

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0889368937
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New World of Knowledge written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In communications, health care, and economics, events, discoveries, and decisions that originate beyond national borders today routinely influence national policies and practices. But how are our system of education, and particularly our universities, affected by globalization? A New World of Knowledge examines how globalization has obliged universities in Canada to reassess and rethink the international dimension of their mission and practice. All now include an international dimension in their mission statement. Is this a true statement of educational principles? Or is it simply a marketing message intended to position the university to cope with budget reductions through the sale of educational services? A New World of Knowledge looks at the important role that Canadian universities have played in shaping Canada's response to the problems of international development. It provides the historical backdrop and level of analysis needed to properly inform choices for the future of higher education in Canada and abroad. The book will interest teachers and administrators in institutions of higher education, especially in international affairs and educational studies; practitioners in organizations that depend on university linkages (such as in NGOs and research-granting organizations); government officials in the education sector; and students looking for an international education.