The organizational characteristics of knowledge-centricity in innovations of knowledge management.

Pemberton, Jon; Stonehouse, George

Abstract

Knowledge focused organizations are knowledge-centric, a term that
embodies the creation and management of knowledge but embedded as an integral element of an organization’s strategy and performance. By devising an organizational characteristics matrix, this chapter identifies a number of essential and desirable features that comprise a knowledgecentric business. The matrix is then applied to a case study company, Black and Decker, and more specifically its European Design Center, to examine the extent to which the organization can be viewed as knowledge-centric.
While the use of such this first-iteration matrix is a useful mechanism for gauging knowledge-centricity, the chapter concludes with a critique of its potential limitations, with suggestions as to how it might be refined further to give a more illuminating assessment of an organization’s knowledge capabilities

Citation

Pemberton, J., & Stonehouse, G. (2004). The organizational characteristics of knowledge-centricity in innovations of knowledge management. In B. Montano (Ed.), Innovations of Knowledge Management, 99-123. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-281-7.ch006

• Publication Date: 2004
• Deposit Date: Feb 22, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 99-123
• Book Title: Innovations of Knowledge Management
• ISBN: 9781591402817
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-281-7.ch006
• Keywords: Knowledge management; knowledge-centric
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4984
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-281-7.ch006