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Board of Advanced Studies & ResearchModule Code:Version No:1.0

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Module Title:Knowledge ManagementAuthorisation:

Validation Date:

Date version starts:BASR

School:School of Business AdministrationArchived Date:

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Module Leader

Name:Dr. Suleman Aziz Lodhi

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Level:1Credit Rating:03

Semester Delivery: (Select one only)Semester 1Semester 2Semester 3

Semester 4Semester 5Semester 6

Introduction:Knowledge management has emerged as one of the latest theoretical views of the firm .The course addresses some of the major themes and debates within the knowledge management literature. The course includes discussion, critical analysis and presentation of seminal papers as well as an empirical study of some knowledge management initiative within an organization.

Outline Syllabus:

1. Theoretical Aspects of Knowledge Management

2. Processes of Knowledge Management

3. Organizational and Social Aspects of Knowledge Management

4. Managerial Aspects of Knowledge Management

5. Technological Aspects of Knowledge Management

6. Application-Specific Knowledge ManagementIndicative References:1. Text Book(s):

Knowledge Management by Elias M. Awad and Hassan M. Ghaziri, Pearson Education

2. Reference Book(s):

Understanding the knowledgeable Organization by McKenzie and Winkelen, Thomson

Managing Knowledge by David A. Wilson

3. Research Paper(s):

Styhre, A. (2003), Understanding knowledge management: Critical and postmodern perspectives, Malm: Liber; Oslo: Abstrakt; Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.

Alvesson, Mats, (2001), Knowledge work: Ambiguity, image and identity, Human Relations, 54(7): 863-886.

Alvesson, Mats & Krreman, Dan, (2001), Odd couple: Making sense of the curious concept of knowledge management, Journal of Management Studies, 38(7): 995-1018.

Bell, Daniel (1973), The coming post-industrial society, New York: Basic Books.

Brewis, Joanna, (2001), Telling it like it is? Gender, language and organizational theory, Westwood, Robert & Linstead, Stephen, eds. (2001), The language of organization, London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage.

Harris, Lloyd C., (2002), The emotional labour of barristers: An exploration of emotional labour by status professionals, Journal of Management Studies, 39(4), 553-584.

Hodgson, Damian, (2003), Taking it like a man: masculinity, subjection and resistance in the selling of life assurances, Gender, Work and Organization, 19(1): 1-21.

Patriotta, Gerardo, (2003), Sensemaking on the shop floor: Narratives of Knowledge in organizations, Journal of Management Studies, 40(2): 349-375.

Ropo, Arja, Parviainen, Jaana, (2001), Leadership and bodily knowledge in expert organizations: Epistemological rethinking, Scandinavian Journal of Management, 17: 1-18.

Gherardi, Silvia, (2001), From organizational learning to practice-based knowing, Human Relations, 54(1): 131-139.

Grant, R.M., (1996), Prospering in Dynamically -competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration, Organizational Science, 20(4): 375-387.

Knorr Cetina, Karin, (2001), Objectual knowledge, in Schatzki, Theodore R., Knorr Cetina, Karin & Savigny,

Eike von, Eds., (2001), The practice turn in contemporary theory, London & New York. Routledge.

Spender, J.C., (1996), Making Knowledge the Basis of a Dynamic Theory of the Firm, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 17, Winter Special issue, pp. 45-62.

Tsoukas, Haridimos & Vladimirou, Efi, (2001), What is organizational knowledge?, Journal of Management Studies, 38(7): 973-993.

Mouritsen, J., Larsen H.T. & Bukh, P.N.D., (2001), Intellectual capital and the capable firm: Narrating, visualising and numbering for management knowledge, Accounting,Organization and Society, 26: 735-762.

Mouritsen, Jan, (2000), Valuing expressive organizations: Intellectual capital and the visualization of value creation, in Schultz, Majken, Hatch, Mary Jo & Larsen, Mogens Holten, eds, (2000), The expressive organization: Linking identity, reputation, and the corporate brand, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio, (2000), Empire, Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press.

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, (1977), Men and women of the corporation, New York: Basic Books.

Knorr Cetina, Karin, (1999) Epistemic cultures: How sciences make knowledge, Cambridge: Harvard University

Press.

Latour, B., (1987), Science in Action, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Plato (1921), Theaetetus, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.

Prichard, Craig, Hull, Richard, Chumer, Mike & Willmott, Hugh, eds., (2000), Managing knowledge: Critical investigations of work and learning, New York: St. Martins Press.

Touraine, Alain, (1971) The post-industrial society. Tomorrows social history: Classes, conflicts and culture in the programmed society, Trans. by Leonard F.X. Mayhew, New York: Random House.Assessment Details:

1. Course Work:

Assignment/Presentation: 30%

Attendance:

10%

Thought paper

60%

2. Examination:

Midterm Examination: 30% ( Examination is subsitituted by assisgnents and presentations ) Final Examination: 60% ( Written examination is substituted by thought paper and its

presentation covering all of the learning outcomes

Minimum Pass Mark (%): 60

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