Living Knowledge

ARNE CARLSEN is a senior research scientist at SINTEF Industrial Management. He has initiated and managed several large research programs on knowledge management and has worked as researcher, consultant and middle manger in the United States and Scandinavia. Carlsen is currently finishing his dissertation work where he focuses on the interplay between work based identity formation and organizational change. ROGER KLEV is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. He holds a PhD in Business Admi

These cases present a series of new concepts for understanding and managing knowledge, such as half-worked boundary objects, knowledge hyperstories, activity centered knowledge support and knowledge dramas.What should the next generation of knowledge management practices be? Living Knowledge offers an empirical perspective on the dynamic and living nature of knowledge in organizations, based on research on professional service work. The book starts from a perspective on knowledge as being constituted in practice and guides the reader through a diverse set of organizational experiences. These cases present a series of new concepts for understanding and managing knowledge, such as half-worked boundary objects, knowledge hyperstories, activity centered knowledge support and knowledge dramas.