Architectures of Knowledge

• Proposes a new approach combining economic and sociological methods.
• Tackles major questions of policy at both a corporate and national level.
• An accessible synthesis of the main approaches to knowledge.
• Develops the concept of communities of practice.

Readership: Post graduate students and researchers in organizations, knowledge management, business economics, science studies, economic sociology, economic geography and innovation studies in general.

Ash Amin, Professor of Geography, Durham University, and Patrick Cohendet, Professor of Economics, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

"This slim and well-produced book shows we must now move far beyond narrow discussions of managing communities of practice and learning organizations and consider the broader implications for a changing socio-economy increasingly driven by knowledge." - Prometheus, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2005

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