CAN KNOWLEDGE BE MANAGED? CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES PERSPECTIVE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
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- Bilgi Ekonomisi ve Yönetimi Dergisi
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The concept of knowledge management is debated from broad perspectives intensively in recent years. These debates have been occurred at the framework of the mainstream management perspectives predominantly. Critical Management Studies (CMS) based on critical theory attack to the mainstream strongly. Some critics include knowledge management. In this study, first, concepts of critical theory, CMS and knowledge management will be examined via literature review. Consequently, our aim is to contribute to the awareness and socially adoption level of CMS which have limited attention in the local literature. Second, knowledge management, its basic concepts and processes are examined through CMS with organization theory perspective. In this way, we think that the question about CMS’ approach to knowledge management will be partly clarified.
CMS literature about knowledge management argues that information technologies are used to increase the control on the employee generally. It is accepted that managing knowledge directly is impossible. A positive approach might be developed both for the employee and managers by analyzing each stage of knowledge management process in detail. These regulations which make the employee to share the knowledge willingly are coherent with the thought of CMS, which is different from mainstream Marxism, that the conflict between employee and managers is not urgent. From a broad perspective, it is argued that employee, organizations and whole society will benefit if CMS’s critics to knowledge management are taken into consideration.
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