Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This paper introduces a dialectical perspective of knowledge management that counters various assumptions in many of the writings on knowledge management.Considering learning, organizing and belonging while reviewing the literature, three categories of paradoxes (Lewis 2000) within the literature on knowledge management are identified.These paradoxes are mainly due to the predominant, unitary view of knowledge management including such concepts as learning, organizing and belonging.The paper proposes a dialectical view (Clegg, Cunha and Cunha 2002) of knowledge management to counter these paradoxes.This alternative view motivates researchers to look at knowledge management phenomena dialectically and provide practitioners with a means of addressing the increasingly paradoxical world they confront.
Authors: Bongsug Chae, James M. Bloodgood
Institution: Kansas State University
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2158145748