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A continental philosophy perspective on knowledge management
Author(s) -
Hassell Lewis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
information systems journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.635
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1365-2575
pISSN - 1350-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2575.2007.00233.x
Subject(s) - knowledge management , business process reengineering , personal knowledge management , successor cardinal , perspective (graphical) , data management , knowledge value chain , business process management , information management , organizational learning , knowledge engineering , business , business process , computer science , marketing , work in process , mathematical analysis , mathematics , lean manufacturing , artificial intelligence , data mining
. Knowledge management is the computer’s contribution to management ‘science’ and claims to be the successor of various trends in the business world, including, but not necessarily limited to information resources management, business process reengineering, management information systems and organizational memory. A number of definitions have been proposed for it. The very concept of knowledge used by knowledge management writers, however, is based on a dubious epistemology. This paper looks at the concept of knowledge from a continental perspective. With this perspective, we question whether what is being managed is, in fact, knowledge, and whether management will get business what it wants anyway.