The rise of the knowledge-based economy has significantly transformed the economies of developed countries from managed economies into entrepreneurial economies, which deal with knowledge as both input and output. Consequently, knowledge has become a key asset for organizations and knowledge management is one of the driving forces of business success. One of the most important challenges faced ...

California Management Review published a Special issue on health care in Fall 2000. We now follow up with a Forum on hospitals. The 2000 Special issue addressed the business aspects of health care. These are surely critical, given that health care expenditures in the U.S. are over $1 trillion annually and the share of GDP devoted to healthcare is 14% and rising. The articles in this Forum, by c...

THE PURPOSE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE Knowledge is widely recognized as a primary commodity in the current knowledge-based economy. Today, the main asset of production is intellectual capital as opposed to the tangible assets that previously drove manufacturing-based markets (Kemp et al., 2001). In analogy, knowledge is as critical to the information age as oil was to the industrial age. Organizatio...

a r t i c l e i n f o There is an increasing recognition that knowledge can be an organization's source of competitive advantage. Hence, knowledge management (KM) has been extensively researched. Prior knowledge management research has recognized the importance of making individual knowledge available throughout the organization. Most KM research, however, has thus far focused on a technology-b...

The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Organizations of Knowledge in the Renaissance The "organization of knowledge" is a large and diffuse topic which can be studied at many different levels, ranging from the way an individual orders his or her understanding of the world privately or in publications, to the w...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary task of the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is even wider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive markets and where responsibility and autonomy characterize the work style of geographically distrib...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary task of the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is even wider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive markets and where responsibility and autonomy characterize the work style of geographically distrib...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary task of the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is even wider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive markets and where responsibility and autonomy characterize the work style of geographically distrib...

Education In contemporary knowledge-intensive organizations, which are characterized by short product life cycles and unhindered access to information and resources, organizational survival, let alone success, necessitates higher-than-average performance. Engaged and committed employees are considered critical resources for organizational survival and business success. Research suggests that th...