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Institut für Management und Marketing Institut für Management und Marketing

Mag. Dr. Julia Müller Mag. Dr. Julia Müller

436018

PS Internationales Management

PS 2

3,5

Good knowledge of English

Block

jährlich

Englisch

Students should be able to understand the nature and dynamics of knowledge management processes as the basis for innovation. They will be able to understand how a firm can manage its most valuable asset (knowledge), especially in a cross-cultural setting.

Resource-based View/Knowledge-based View/Relational View Knowledge and Knowledge management Corporate culture Cross-cultural management

Lecture, individual papers and group work, discussions, case studies

Active collaboration Individual paper Written term paper (group work included a field study and presentation of the results)

Will be anounced at the first meeting Alavi, M. and Leidner, D.E. (2001). Review: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual foundations and Research Issues. MIS Quarterly, 25 (1), 107-136. Ardichvili, A., Maurer, M., Li, W., Wentling, T. and Stuedemann, R. (2006). Cultural Influences on Knowledge Sharing Through Online Communities of Practice. Journal of Knowledge Management, 10 (1), 94-107. Brooke, M.Z. (Ed)^(Eds) (1990). Handbook of International Financial Management. Basingstoke: MacMillan. Brown, J.S. and Duguid, P. (2001). Knowledge and Organization - A Social-Practice Perspective. Organization Science, 12 (2), 198-213. Hansen, M.T., Nohria, N. and Tierney, T. (1999). What's your Strategy for Managing knowledge? Harvard Business Review, March-April, 106-116. Schein, E.H. (1985). How Culture Forms, Develops, and Changes. In Kilmann, R.H., et al. (Eds), Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture (17-43), San Francisco: Jossey Bass Inc. Spender, J.-C. (1996). Making Knowledge the Basis of a Dynamic Theory of the Firm. Strategic Management Journal, 17 (Winter Special Issue), 45-62. Tichy, N.M., Tushman, M.L. and Fombrun, C. (1979). Social Network Analysis for Organizations. Academy of Management Review, 4, 507-519. Tsoukas, H. and Vladimirou, E. (2001). What is Organizational Knowledge? Journal of Management Studies, 38 (7), 973-993. Wasko, M.M. and Faraj, S. (2000). It is What One Does: Why People Participate and Help Others in Electronic Communities of Practice. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, (9), 155-173. Wenger, E.C. and Snyder, W.M. (2000). Communities of Practice - The Organizational Frontier. Harvard Business Review, (1), 139-145.

Interactive part of the course including the lecture 436021 Dr. Stadler
Beginn: 9.10.2007