Management, Rational or Creative

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dc.contributor.author	Spender, JC	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:27:15Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:27:15Z
dc.date.issued	2006-03-21T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	8791815169	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7418
dc.description.abstract	Methodological individualism is the doctrine that economic or social phenomena are ultimately grounded in individual knowing and choice. Recently numerous collective concepts have been introduced into our thinking about the firm - absorptive capacity, communities of practice, dynamic capabilities, social capital, organizational routines, and so on. As far as we can tell these are neither theoretically nor empirically well grounded. In this talk I consider what might be meant by the statement that 'only individuals can know'. I contrast notions of knowing as having and holding data, or a frame of meaning, or a skilled practice. I conclude that all manner of social entities can know in all respects save that of creating the knwledge that is then known. Jel classification: D8, M10, M19	en_US
dc.format.extent	18 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SMG Working paper;2005-014	en_US
dc.title	Management, Rational or Creative	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt06mar21 mielmo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Center for Strategi og Globalisering	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	SMG	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Center for Strategic Management and Globalization	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	SMG	en_US
dc.idnumber	8791815169	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2005	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	A Knowledge-Based Discussion	en_US