Managing knowledge : experts, agencies and organizations /

Managing Knowledge reverses the status quo argument that organisational change is driven by the specific demands of large companies. Instead of viewing firms as the catalysts for gradual change, Albert and Bradley argue that expert professionals have fuelled a break away from the traditional organis...

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Main Authors: Albert, Steven (Author), Bradley, Keith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the supply-side in context
  • pt. 1. Expert employees and their new organization. 1. Trends in the labour market. 2. Adaptations in the labour market and the expert employee. 3. From the firm to the agency. 4. Expert agency employment as a facilitator of intellectual capital. 5. The temporal advantages of agency work for the expert employee. 6. Taking stock
  • pt. 2. The labour market and the expert employee. 7. AT & T's special employment policies for expert employees. 8. An external temporary agency and expert employees. 9. The Hollywood agency system. 10. The Internet as an agent. 11. Labour market segments re-examined. 12. Agents and intellectual capital
  • App. A. Formal exposition of Winston model
  • App. B. Agency employment and search costs.