Architectures of Knowledge
seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in
economics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an
alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the
book assembles together the most advanced research in different disciplines: economics,
science and technology studies, cognitive sciences (including situated and distributed
cognition), economic geography, and managment science. Placing the concept of community at
the very centre of the argument, the book arrives at an understanding of the way in which
new pieces of knowlege are created and mobilised in economic activities.
Readership: Post graduate students and researchers in organizations, knowledge management,
business economics, science studies, economic sociology, economic geography and innovation
studies in general.
Table of Contents
1 Placing Knowledge
2 Economics of Knowledge
Reconsidered
3 The Firm as a Locus of
Competence Building
4 Practices of Knowing
5 Spaces of Knowing
6 Communities and Governance
of Knowledge
7 Public Policy Implications
178 pages