KM Resources: KM Books
This section provides a listing of KM books with direct links to brief online
reviews (where available). In addition, this provides good websites such as
online bookstores, universities, and research groups that list a wide collection
of KM books.
Publishers, authors, and readers: Please feel free to recommend us KM books
at ICASIT KM Central
Current Classics
Books
Other Recommended
KM Books
International
KM Books and Journals
Universities,
Not for Profits and Research Groups
Latest Books:
 Towards
the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management
by John Davies (Editor), Dieter Fensel (Editor), Frank van Harmelen (Editor), Frank van Harmelen John Wiley & Sons Pub.Date: January 2003 From the Publisher Towards the Semantic Web focuses on the application of Semantic Web technology and ontologies in particular to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal structures supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to represent explicitly the semantics of structured and semi-structured information which enable sophisticated automatic support for acquiring, maintaining and accessing information.
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Realizing
the Promise of Corporate Portals, Leveraging Knowledge for Business
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Executive's Guide to Knowledge Management: The Last Competitive Advantage
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Current Classics
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive by Sharing What They Know, Nancy M. Dixon (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Etienne Wenger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
The Dance of Change: Mastering the Twelve Challenges to Change in A Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner (Editors), (New York: Doubleday, 1999)
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
Knowledge Management: A Guide for Your Journey to Best-Practice Processes, Cindy Hubert, Susan Elliott, & Carla O'Dell, (Houston, TX: American Productivity & Quality Center, 2000)
Knowledge Management Toolkit, The: Practical Techniques for Building a Knowledge Management System, Amrit Tiwana, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000)
Smart Business : How Knowledge Communities Can Revolutionize Your Company, James W. Botkin, (New York: Free Press, 1999)
The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
The Springboard : How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations, Stephen Denning, (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann Publisher, 2000)
Unleashing Intellectual Capital, Charles Ehin, (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)
Value Driven Intellectual Capital: How to Convert Intangible Corporate Assets Into Market Value, Patrick H. Sullivan, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000)
Other Recommended Knowledge Management
Books
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, U. Fayyad and others, editors, (Menlo Park: AAAI Press, 1996)
Beyond Knowledge Management : New Way to Work & Learn, Brian Hackett, (New York, NY: Conference Board, 2000)
Blown to Bits : How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy, Philip Evans & Thomas S. Wurster (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
Building Organizational Intelligence : A Knowledge Management Primer, Jay Liebowitz (Boca Raton, FL: CRC press, 2000)
Case Studies in Knowledge Management 1999, (Woodstock: Beekman Publishers, 2000)
Corporate Instinct, T. Koulopoulos, R. Spinello and W. Toms, (New York: Van Nostrand, Reinhold, 1997)
Cybercorp, J. Martin, (New York: AMACOM, 1996).
Data Stores, Data Warehousing, and the Zachman Framework : Managing Enterprise Knowledge; Inmon, William H./ Zachman, John A. / Geiger, Jonathan G. (McGraw-Hill, 1997)
The Distributed Mind, Fisher & Fisher, (New York: AMACOM, 1997)
Dynamic Worlds : From the Frame Problems to Knowledge Management (Applied Logic Series, V. 12), Remo Pareschi & B. Fronhofer (Editors), (Norwell: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999)
Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation, Georg Von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, & Ikujiro Nonaka (Oxford University Press, May 2000)
Essential Guide to Knowledge Management, The: e-Business and CRM Applications, Amrit Tiwana, Miles Williams (Editors) (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall 2000)
The Foundations of Management Knowledge: Examining Complex Relations Between Theory and Practice, Paul Jeffcut (Editor), (New York: Routledge, 2000)
From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence : Measuring Technological, Market and Organizational Innovation (Technology Management), Joe Tidd (Editor) (London: Imperial College Press, 2000)
From Know-How to Knowledge: The Essential GT Understanding, Bryan Gladstone, (London: Industrial Society, 2000)
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Duncan, William R. (Project Management Institute, 1996)
The Human Side of Knowledge Management : An Annotated Bibliography, Pamela S. Mayer, (Greensboro: Center for Creative Leadership, 2000)
If Only We Knew What We Know : The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice, O'Dell, Carla S. / Grayson, C. Jackson / et al (Free Press, 1998)
In Action: Leading Knowledge Management and Learning, Dede Bonner (American Society for Training & Development: 2000)
Information Ecology, T. Davenport (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Infrastructure for Knowledge Management, Randy J. Frid (Lincoln: iUniverse.com Inc., 2000)
Intellectual Capital, The New Wealth of Organizations, T. Stewart, (Doubleday, Currency 1997)
The Knowing Organization : How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions, Chun Wei Choo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Knowledge and Communities (Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy), Eric L. Lesser, Michael Fontaine, &Jason Slusher (Editors) (Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)
Knowledge Assets : Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy, Max H. Boisot (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1999)
The Knowledge-Creating Company, I. Nonaka and H. Taceuchi, (New York, Oxford Press 1995)
Knowledge-Driven Work: Unexpected Lessons from Japanese and United States Work Practices, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld [et al.] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Knowledge-Enabled Organization, D. Tobin, (New York: AMACOM, 1997)
Knowledge Emergence : Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation, Ikujiro Nonaka (Editor), Toshihiro Nishiguchi, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000)
The Knowledge Evolution, Expanding Organizational Intelligence, V. Allee, (Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.)
Knowledge for Action, A Guide to Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Change, Scott I. Tannenbaum & George M. Alliger (Chicago, IL: IHRIM Press, 2000)
Knowledge Horizons : The Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management, Charles Despres, Daniele Chauvel, & Daniel Chauvel (Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinnemann, 2000)
Knowledge Management : Best Practices in Europe, Kai Mertens(ed.), Peter Heisig, & Jens Vorbeck, (New York, Springer Verlag, 2000)
Knowledge Management : Clarifying the Key Issues, C. Argyris, (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993)
Knowledge Management: Classic and Contemporary Works, Daryl Morey, Mark Maybury, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Shavani Thuraisingham (Editors), (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2001 )
Knowledge Management Foundations, Steve Fuller, (Woburn: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)
Knowledge Management: A Literature Review, (Woodstock: Beekman Publishers, 2000 )
Knowledge Management and Organizational Design, P. Myers, (Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996)
Knowledge Management Strategies, Jerry, Jr. Honeycutt, (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2000)
Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations, Yogesh Malhotra (Editor), (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2000)
The Knowledge Web : From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back--And Other Journeys Through Knowledge, James Burke, (NY, Touchstone Books, 2000)
Leading the Revolution, Gary Hamel, (Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
Learning and Knowledge Management in the Firm : From Knowledge Accumulation to Strategic Capabilities (New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation), Gabriela Dutrenit, (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar 2000)
Liberation Management, T. Peters, (New York: Fawcett Columbine Books, 1994)
Maintenance of Knowledge Based Systems, F. Coenen and T. Bench-Capon (San Diego: Academic Press, 1993)
Managing By Storying Around, David M. Armstrong, (Armstrong International, 1995)
Managing Information and Knowledge in the Public Sector, Eileen M. Milner (London: Routledge, 2000)
Managing Intellectual Capital : Organizational, Strategic, and Policy Dimensions (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies), David J. Teece (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Managing Knowledge, S. Albert and K. Bradley, (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Managing Knowledge, G. Van Krogh and J. Roos, eds. (London: Sage, 1996)
Managing Knowledge: Building Blocks for Success, Gilbert Probst, Steffen Raub, & Kai Romhardt (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
Managing Knowledge : Critical Investigations of Work & Learning, Craig Prichard (Editor) (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)
Managing Knowledge in a Paper World : How Document Technologies Enable Knowledge Management, Robert Smallwood (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000)
Neo-Industrial Organising (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies), Eskil Ekstedt, Rolf A. Lundin, Anders Soderholm (Editors) (New York: Routledge, 1999)
The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets, K. Sveiby, (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1997)
Profiting from Multiple Intelligence in the Workplace, Joyce Martin, (Burlington, VT: Gower Publishing Co., 2000)
Regions, Globalization, and Knowledge-Based Economy, John H. Dunning (Editor), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Sensemaking in Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science), Karl E. Weick, (Sage Publications, 1995)
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy : Individual, Collective and Organizational Learning Processes, Robert Cross, Sam Israelit (Editors), (Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999)
Tacit Knowledge in Professional Practice : Researcher and Practitioner Perspectives, Robert J. Sternberg, Joseph A. Horvath (Editors), (Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999)
Technology and Knowledge : From the Firm to Innovation Systems, Paolo Saviotti & Bart Nooteboom (Editors), (Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., 2000)
Wellsprings of Knowledge, D. Leonard-Barton, (Boston: HBS Press, 1995)
Working Knowledge, T. Davenport and L. Prusak, (Boston: HBS Press, 1998).
World Development Report 1998-99 : Knowledge for Development, World Bank, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
International KM Books and Journals
Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge, Joint publication of the Management of Social Transformation Programme (MOST) and the Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks (CIRAN), (1998/999)
Knowledge Management in the Learning Society, R. Mansell and U. When (eds.), (For the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Oxford University Press, 1998)
Knowledge Societies: Information
Technology for Sustainable Development, Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development (Editor), (Paris, 2000)
This book provides a very useful, comprehensive view of the role of ICTs in
creating "knowledge societies". A unique aspect of the book is the conceptual
framework developed to measure a country's progress with respect to the development
and use of knowledge for social and economic development. Looks at the potential
of ICTs in contributing to economic and social development of the least developed
countries and at the appropriate global governance and national policy frameworks
for knowledge societies.
Universities, Not for Profits
and Research Groups
American Productivity and
Quality Center Bookstore
The site has recommended books with links to Amazon.com and the recommendations
are categorized. There is also a section for books that have been reviewed
in the media. All publications can also be viewed, but some books are only
available to members. When the books available to non-members are viewed,
the title of the book can be clicked on to get more information. There is
even a downloadable Adobe PDF executive summary. However, it does look like
some of these aren't necessarily books, but actually studies done by the APQC.
It may be best to stick with the recommended books with links to Amazon, since
the studies are quite pricey.
@brint.com
This site is a search of brint.com for the words "knowledge management".
It looks like the search engine of this site is directly linked to the Amazon
database because it pulls up prices for the books as well. A nice feature
of the brint.com site is the right column. This incorporates a searching function
on the same page as the results from the last search. It also includes a list
of hot topics where some other knowledge management texts may be found. The
search engine gives the top three matches for the query and then below that
provides a list alphabetically by title for other books.
This link is a search from brint.com for the words "organizational
learning". This results page, however, does not provide the helpful right
column contained in the previous link. Once again, the titles are all linked
to Amazon.
This link is a search from brint.com for the words "information
management". This results page, however, does not provide the helpful
right column contained in the previous link. Once again, the titles are all
linked to Amazon.
CoIL (Community
Intelligence Labs) Bookstore
Contains a Knowledge Ecology and Knowledge Management section. This section
contains books recommended by CoIL on these subjects. Reviews and some cover
graphics are provided as well as other titles. All books listed are linked
to amazon.com for additional information or ordering. *The viewer needs Java
in order to view this site.
In
Depth Technology info center
This site gives a good list of Business Technology books. It is a broad
spectrum of books that is not necessarily focused on KM, but it gives a good
representation of issues surrounding it as well as some books on the topic.
Clicking on the title of the books provides a short synopsis and a link to
Amazon. As a side note, the site is painfully slow. *The viewer needs Java
in order to view this site.
The Knowledge
Management Resource Center’s bookstore
A pretty comprehensive site of books on knowledge management updated through
1999. The opening page allows the user to search for books based on the year
published. The next pages are a bit cumbersome in that they are alphabetized
by title and long. Remember to use the "Find" function in the browser if to
look for a specific author or title. Clicking on the titles links to Amazon,
where reviews of the book and pricing can befound.
Learnativity Bookshelf
Offers a wide variety of bibliographies on a range of subjects to include
KM. The KM section has a list of twelve books on KM. These books are linked
to Amazon.com for review or ordering as desired.
Project Management Institute
(PMI) Bookstore
For access to the KM books use search for "knowledge management" and browse
for "business." Offers five books with descriptions, reviews and prices. Just
click on the book cover to learn more.
Targetedlearning.com
This site lists two publications by Nigel Bristow. Both look to be good
resources on knowledge management and communities of learning. There is a
summary and table of contents provided for each book.
University of
Texas Knowledge Management Server
A good starting point for looking for books on knowledge management. The
books are arranged in alphabetical order by author with a link to Amazon provided.
It is difficult to tell when this website is updated and how accurate it is.
It does have some books from 1999 as well as some from 1993, but one listing
labeled "New, posted June 23, 1999" is a link to a book that was published
in 1997. Make sure to look at other sources for books as well.
This section of the site was last updated on February 26, 2003.