Knowledge: From Ethical Category to Knowledge Capitalism

Audit Category Knowledge as a Precondition to Learning from Experience

Prior research indicates that inexperienced auditors lack knowledge of basic auditing categories (e.g. transaction cycles, audit objectives), instead developing this knowledge over time. As a consequence, learning from early experiences may be hampered because these experiences are not stored with respect to the category structures that are needed for important audit decisions. We performed an ...

Knowledge, Work and Subject in Informational Capitalism

With the development of informational capitalism and the network society, globalization and informatization play an increasingly crucial role for understanding technology and society. Informatization describes a qualitative leap in technology development which opens up new dimensions of productivity by information modelling on the one hand, but which demands new forms of knowledge of informatio...

Knowledge Selection in Category Learning

Ethical Behavior: Care or Knowledge

From Knowledge Engineering to Knowledge Management1

The concept of knowledge management has undoubtedly become a major force in business thinking in recent years. Many large organizations are embracing knowledge management and claiming significant benefits. Books such as Working Knowledge (Davenport and Prusak, 1998) and The Knowledge-Creating Company (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) demonstrate with multiple examples that many of the world’s most su...