CONTENTS
Introduction. Anthony F. Buono and Flemming Poulfelt. Part I: Knowledge Management and the Management Consulting Industry. Managing Organizational Knowledge Networks in a Professional Services Firm: Interrelating Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital, Jan Mouritsen and Per Nikolaj Bukh. Knowledge Management in Practice: Examining Knowledge as Modes of Production, Anne Bang. The Fallacy of Simplistic Notions of the Transfer of “Best Practice”, Sue Newell. “Knowing” in the Consultancy Firm: Exploring Knowledge, People, Context and Tools in Action, Elena Bou and Alfons Sauquet. Co-evolution of Knowledge Management Processes: Project Experience in a Global Engineering Consulting Firm, Antti Ainamo. Part II: Dynamics of Knowledge Sharing and Dissemination. A Dispersed Repertoire: Exploring Struggles to Knowledge Dissemination within Consultancies, Stefan Heusinkveld and Jos Benders. In Search of Knowledge Sharing in Practice, Lotte Henriksen. Merging Knowledge: A Study of Knowledge Management in a Consulting- Firm Merger, Markus Ejenäs and Andreas Werr. Knowledge-Sharing Behavior and Post-Acquisition Integration Failure, Kenneth Husted, Jens Gammelgaard and Snejina Michailova. Part III: Methodological Approaches to Studying Knowledge in Organizations. Organizational Photography: A “Snapshot” Approach to Understanding Knowledge Sharing, Nicoline Jacoby Petersen and Sille Østergaard. Video-Views of Knowing in Action: Analytical Views “In Situ” in an IT Firm’s Development Department, Sisse Siggaard Jensen. Complex Project Management in Small High-Technology Firms: Small Firms as Learning Models? Mette Mønsted. Part IV: Reflections on Knowledge Management and Management Consulting. Flaws in the “Engine” of Knowledge Creation: A Critique of Nonaka’s Theory, Stephen Gourlay and Andrew Nurse. Ten Years of Knowledge Management: Ramifications for Consultants, Nicolas Rolland, Alice Guilhon and Georges Trepo. The Wonderful World of Knowledge Management: Does Knowledge Management Really Add Value? Peter Holdt Christensen. Knowledge and Consultancy. Hans Siggaard Jensen. Contributors.