What’s “knowledge management” when resources are unknowable and deals negotiated?

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the management of the use of knowledge in interfaces stretching across company and organizational borders, including the negotiated monetary dimension.

Design/methodology/approach

The research approach is the IMP framework on resource interaction (Håkansson and Waluszewski, 2002), and the distinction among heterogeneous economic resources and a homogeneous monetary dimension, (Håkansson and Olsen, 2015; Perna et al., 2015). A case study on use of science based knowledge in business is utilized.

Findings

The management regime behind the creation of a user setting including a substantial monetary flow is can be characterized as “managing collective entities” (Håkansson, Bakken, Olsen, 2013) and it is argued that the knowledge management regime assumes away the most important process related to use of knowledge.

Research limitations/implications

The paper stress the theoretical need for approaching managment in general and managing use of knowledge in particular as an interactive issue.

Practical implications

The paper stress the practical need for approaching managment in general and managing use of knowledge in particular as an interactive issue.

Originality/value

The paper questions the knowledge management regime, which has a strong influence on public policy.

Citation

Waluszewski, A. (2016), "What’s “knowledge management” when resources are unknowable and deals negotiated?", IMP Journal, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 107-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMP-07-2015-0037