Architectures of Knowledge
Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

'Architectures of Knowledge' seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in economics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy.

The book begins by explaining why knowledge is becoming more of a core element of the value-generating process in the economy, then juxtaposes the economic and cognitive theorisations of knowledge in firms with pragmatic and socially grounded theorisations and a critical exploration of the neglected dimension of the spatiality of knowledge formation in firms. The book concludes by discussing the corporate governance implications of learning based on competences and communities, and a how national science and technology policies might respond to the idea of learning as a distributed, non-cognitive, practice-based phenomenon.

1. Placing Knowledge
2. Economics of Knowledge Reconsidered
3. The Firm as a Locus of Competence Building
4. Practices of Knowing
5. Spaces of Knowing
6. Communities and Governance of Knowledge
7. Public Policy Implications