Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK.
E-mail: ias@lancaster.ac.uk
Workshop: Knowledge Work and the Organisation
19-20 July 2006
Please note, this research programme has now concluded and these pages are maintained here as a record of the activities of the Institute for Advanced Studies.
Coordinator: Mike Reed
The proposition that ‘knowledge work’, ‘knowledge workers’
and ‘knowledge-intensive-organisations’ have become defining
features of advanced capitalist political economies and societies is now
taken as axiomatic. The purpose of this workshop was to explore these
concepts and their relevance for understanding and explaining the key
economic, technological, political and cultural changes associated with
the emergence of the ‘knowledge-based economy and society’.
The workshop generated a more sceptical, not to say critical, evaluation
of the ideological, theoretical and empirical interventions that have
promoted the conception of a ‘new political economy.’
Participants
- Mike Reed, University of Cardiff, From Organization Man to Knowledge Worker?: The Dynamics of Work Re-Organization in a Knowledge-Based Economy
- Donald Hislop, University of Sheffield, Knowledge Processes and Communication Dynamics of Mobile Virtual Work
- Sandra Jones, Melbourne University, Universities: The Decay of the Knowledge Industry
- Fredrik Augustsson, National Institute for Working Life, Stockholm, Sweden, The Role of Technologies and Areas of Knowledge in the Development of Organisational Identities, Practices and Social Fields
- Harry Scarbrough, University of Warwick, The Evolution of Business Knowledge
- Will Pollard, The Learning Organisation, Now with Quality Assurance
- Rick Delbridge, University of Cardiff, Workplace Disconnections: Is Network HRM the Answer?
- Timothy Clark, Durham University, Management Evangelists? Similarities and Differences in the Speaking Styles of Management Gurus
- Steve Vincent, university of Leeds, Inter-Organisational Relations and Knowledge Work: A Discussion of Case Study Data
- Jacky Swan, University of Warwick, Organizing Knowledge for Biomedical Innovation
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