Ambiguity in Defining Knowledge in Strategic Management

• Autorzy: Czesław Mesjasz , Marek Szarucki

Warianty tytułu

Wieloznaczność w definiowaniu wiedzy w zarządzaniu strategicznym

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Defining knowledge in management is always associated with simplifications, beginning from an a priori approach - everybody knows what is knowledge through more or less reasonable qualitative interpretations and ending with attempts of operationalization. Definitional problems are derived from an implicit hierarchical structure of knowledge - knowledge about knowledge....ad infinitumand from fundamental paradoxes of knowledge, associated with its self-reflexive and self-referential character. These problems are especially important in strategic management. A deepened survey of literature in that area shows that the interpretations of knowledge in strategic management are simplified and inadequate to the needs of practice and theory. The aim of this paper is to primarily identify specific characteristics of the knowledge that is necessary in strategic management. Two supporting aims are proposed. First, identification of reasons for a limited number of analyses of the specificity of knowledge applicable in strategic management. Second, the development of a preliminary survey of characteristics of that type of knowledge.(original abstract)

Definiowanie wiedzy w zarządzaniu zawsze wiąże się ze znacznymi uproszczeniami, poczynając od podejścia apriorycznego - każdy wie, co to jest wiedza, a kończąc na mniej lub bardziej uzasadnionych interpretacjach jakościowych i próbach operacjonalizacji. Problemy definicyjne wynikają z ukrytej hierarchicznej struktury wiedzy - wiedza o wiedzy... ad infinitum - oraz z podstawowych paradoksów dotyczących wiedzy a wynikających z jej samorefleksywności oraz samoreferencji. Problemy definicyjne są szczególnie ważne w zakresie zarządzania strategicznego. Dokładny przegląd literatury w tym obszarze prowadzi do wniosku, że interpretacje wiedzy w zarządzaniu strategicznym są zbyt uproszczone i nie odpowiadają wymaganiom teorii i praktyki. Celem artykułu jest wstępna identyfikacja specyficznych cech wiedzy niezbędnych w zarządzaniu strategicznym. W artykule zostały sformułowane dwa cele cząstkowe. Po pierwsze, wskazanie przyczyn braku studiów dotyczących specyfiki wiedzy mającej zastosowanie w zarządzaniu strategicznym. Po drugie, opracowanie wstępnego zestawienia cech tego typu wiedzy. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Knowledge; Knowledge management; Strategic management

PL

Wiedza; Zarządzanie wiedzą; Zarządzanie strategiczne

• Czasopismo: Studia Oeconomica Posnaniensia
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 7
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 54--66

Twórcy

autor

Czesław Mesjasz

• Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie

autor

Marek Szarucki

• Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie

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DOI

10.18559/SOEP.2019.2.4