Knowledge management and organizational design / [electronic resource] edited by Paul S. Myers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge management and organizational design: an introduction / Paul S. Myers -- The use of knowledge in society / Frederick A. Hayek -- Specific and general knowledge, and organizational structure / Michael C. Jensen & William H. Meckling -- The rise and fall of bureaucracy / Gifford & Elizabeth Pinchot -- The emerging flexible organization: perspectives from silicon valley / Homa Bahrami -- The organization of innovation / Tom Burns & G.M. Stalker -- When a thousand flowers bloom: structural, collective, and social conditions for innovation in organizations / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Knowledge links / Joseph Badaracco -- Strategic alliances, organizational learning, and competitive advantage: the HRM agenda / Vladimir Pucik -- The numbers / Charles Handy -- Motivating knowledge workers: the challenge for the 1990s / Mahen Tampoe -- The social system at the shop level / Michel Crozier -- The abstraction of industrial work / Shoshana Zuboff -- Building intelligence networks / Wayne Baker.