Rethinking the knowledge-based organization

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 67-71

  Zack, Michael H ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (14)

1. See, for example, M. Alvesson, "Organizations as Rhetoric: Knowledge-Intensive Rrms and the Struggle With Ambiguity," Journal of Management Studies 30 (November 1993): 997-1015;
2. S. Davis and J. Botkin, "The Coming of Knowledge-Based Business," Harvard Business Review 72 (September-October 1994): 165-170;
3. P.P. Drucker, The Coming of the New Organization," Harvard Business Review 66 (JanuaryFebruary 1988): 45-53;
4. R. Nurmi, "Knowledge-Intensive Firms," Business Horizons (May-June 1998): 26-32;
5. J.B. Quinn, "Intelligent Enterprise: A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industry" (New York: Free Press, 1992);
6. W.H. Starbuck, "Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms," Journal of Management Studies 29, no. 6 (1992): 713-740.
7. See H. Itami, "Mobilizing Invisible Assets" (Cambridge, Massachu-setts: Harvard University Press, 1987).
8. M.H. Zack, "Developing a Knowledge Strategy," California Management Review 41 (spring 1999): 125-145.
9. Until 2000, Holcim was called Holderbank in reference to the Swiss town in which the company was founded, and the internal group was Holderbank Management and Consulting.
10. M.H. Zack, "Electronic Publishing: A Product Architecture Perspective," Information & Management 31 (November 1996): 75-86.
11. J. Krasner, "Tech Icon Polaroid Files for Bankruptcy," Boston Globe, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001, sec. A, p. 4.
12. For more on the concept of image from an economist's viewpoint, see K.E. Boulding, "Image: Knowledge of Life and Society" (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1956).
13. M.H. Zack, "Developing a Knowledge Strategy: Epilogue," in "The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge: A Collection of Readings," eds. C.W. Choo and N. Bontis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
14. M.H. Zack, "Managing Codified Knowledge," Sloan Management Review 40 (summer 1999): 45-58.