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Society of the knowledge and administrative science: initial reflections on the organizations management of the knowledge and its implications

The present article is intended to present some initial reflections on the organizations paper of the management of the knowledge and its implications. In the capitalist society the competitive advantage is determinative for the success, even though for the survival of the organizations, mainly for those with lucrative ends. In this context, the knowledge is if becoming the main factor of production, determinative element of the competitive advantage of the companies. All the competitors have access to the too much factors of production, but what she distinguishes a company of another one is the knowledge that each one they withhold. That one that it obtains to better manage the knowledge of its employees, of form to translate this knowledge in products and services valued for the society of the consumption, will have a competitive advantage. Considering it importance of the knowledge as distinctive factor of production in the company and the necessity of if getting one better exploitation for to accomplish of the strategical objectives of the organizations, this article considers that the knowledge in the organizations is managed of conscientious form and according to its contribution for the essential abilities and/or the strategical vision of the organization. It also presents some instruments that can be used by the company to define these criteria of election and for the stimulaton of the generation of knowledge and the insertion of the management of the knowledge in the organizacional culture.

Knowledge; Administrative science; Knowledge society; Organization


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