Beyond an IT-driven Knowledge Society

Knowledge Management as Intertwined Sociotechnical Circulation

Bibliographic Data

ID12416758
AuthorsGiuseppina Pellegrino (University of Calabria, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume20
Issue2
Pages164-172
Publication date2012-03-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1062798711000408
OpenAlexW2159435880
LanguageEN
References cited17

Starting from a critical review of Knowledge Management initiatives in managerial contexts, this contribution proposes an alternative approach to knowledge management as intertwined sociotechnical circulation. In most organizational settings, Knowledge Management has been driven by ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and has equated knowledge with information, and so faces massive failures and conflicting results. In order to overcome the influence of the managerial debate in Knowledge Management, an alternative approach is proposed. Drawing on the Mobility Paradigm, Science and Technology Studies, and Practice-based Studies, knowledge and its management are re-framed as a collective, situated, heterogeneous and contextual practice, performed through sociotechnical processes embedded in multiple infrastructures. A short agenda of outcomes and consequences of this alternative Knowledge Management is then outlined, in order to emphasize the continuity and dialectic relationship between theory and practice, conceptual and operational levels, in enabling knowledge transformation and circulation

Business · Dialectic · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Order (exchange · Organizational learning · Personal knowledge management · Sociotechnical system · Computer Science · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development · Innovative Education and Learning Practices

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