Title: Need to Know - Organizational Knowledge and Management Perspective
Abstract: The following essay argues for a new approach to management - to know. The main tenets of this paper are centered on two issues. First we contend the use of the phrase knowledge is inappropriate for its intended purpose and suggest a specific meaning based on semiotic theory and a resource-based view of organizations. We argue that only a small portion of what is commonly considered to be organizational actually meets the definition of being a resource that can sustain competitive advantages. Hence, this small portion is what needs to be known and should get the attention of management efforts. Second, using this prescribed frame of knowledge we employ transaction cost economics and principal-agent theory to elaborate on the need for the control, protection, and constant monitoring of the based on a centralized management scheme. It is our contention that to preserve and ensure the effective and efficient deployment of the organizational knowledge, we need to ascribe to the ideology of many defense organizations and provide it on a need to know basis.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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