Organizations, Paradigms, and People: The Challenge of KM Interventions

摘要

This paper presents viewgraphs on Knowledge Management (KM) and how these interventions are put into practice by organizations and society. The topics include: (1) The Multiple Paradigm Tool; (2) Four Paradigms: tool for the Analyzing Organizations; (3) Assumptions About the Nature of Social Science; (4) Assumptions About the Nature of Society; (5) Schools of Sociological and Organizational Theory; (6) Meaning and Metaphors in the Four Paradigms; and (7) Possibilities and Conclusions.