INF 607 Management of Knowledge in IT Organisations: Reading list

Module text(s)

• Awad, E.M. & Ghaziri, H.M. (2010). Knowledge management. 2nd edn. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Becerra-Fernandez, I., Gonzalez, A. & Sabherwal, R. (2015). Knowledge management:  systems and processes. 2nd edn. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Debowski, S. (2006). Knowledge management. Australia: John Wiley & Sons.
• Rao, M. (ed.). (2005). Knowledge management tools and techniques: practitioners and experts evaluate KM solutions. Amsterdam: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.
• Watson, I. (2003). Applying knowledge management: techniques for building corporate memories. Amsterdam: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. 

Key indicative readings

• Bjorkman, I., Evans, P. & Pucik, V. (2019). ‘Managing knowledge in multinational firms', in A Pinnington and A. Harzing (eds). International Human Resource Management. London, UK: Sage. Ch.10.
• Bresnen, M., Edelman, L. Newell, S., Scarbrough, H. & Swan, J. (2003). Social practices and the management of knowledge in project environments, International Journal of Project Management, vol. 21 (3), pp. 157-166. Request this item
• Easterby-Smith, M., Crossan, M. & Nicolini, D. (2000). Organizational learning: debates past, present and future. Journal of Management Studies, vol. 37 (6), pp. 783-796. Request this item
• Liebowitz, J. & Megbolugbe, I. (2003). A set of frameworks to aid the project manager in conceptualizing and implementing knowledge management initiatives. International Journal of Project Management, vol. 21 (3), pp. 189-198. Request this item
• Wang, C.L. & Ahmed, P.K. (2003). Organizational learning: a critical review. The learning organization, vol. 10 (1), pp. 8-17.
• Williams, T. (2004). Identifying the hard lessons from projects – easily. International Journal of Project Management, vol. 22 (4), pp. 273-279. Request this item

Recommended readings

• Argyris, C. (1999). On organizational learning. 2nd edn. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
• Becerra-Fernandez, I. & Sabherwal, R. (2015). Knowledge management systems and processes. 2nd edn. New York, NY: M.E. Sharpe
• Easterby-Smith, M. & Lyles, M.A. (eds). (2011). The Blackwell handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management. 2nd edn. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
• Kakihara, M. & Sorensen, C. (2002). Exploring knowledge emergence: from chaos to organizational knowledge. Journal for Global Information Technology Management, vol. 5 (3), pp. 48-66.
• McHugh, D., Groves, D. & Alker, A. (1998). Managing learning: what do we learn from a learning organization? The Learning Organization, vol. 5 (5), pp. 209-220.
• O’Keeffe, T. (2002). Organizational learning: a new perspective. Journal of European Industrial Training, vol. 26 (2), pp. 130-141.
• Pedler, M., Burgogyne, J. & Boydell, T. (1997). The learning company: a strategy for sustainable development. 2nd edn. London: McGraw-Hill.
• Senge, P.M. (2006). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization. London: London: Random House Business Books.
• Serenko, A., Bontis, N. & Hardie, T. 2007. Organizational size and knowledge flow: a proposed theoretical link. Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol. 8 (4), pp. 610-627.
• Tiwana, A. (2002). The knowledge management toolkit: orchestrating IT, strategy, and knowledge platforms. 2nd edn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Van Wijk, R., Jansen, J.J.P. & Lyles, M.A. (2008). Inter- and intra-organisational knowledge transfer: a meta-analytic review and assessment of its antecedents and consequences. Journal of Management Studies, vol. 45, pp. 830-853. Request this item