Michael,
Ah - the unified field theory of business and management. I fear your chances of locating such a wondrous article or text are pretty slim. There is no single conceptual framework which brings together any one of these disparate areas never mind all of them. I wonder if you might not be better served looking at how KM has been taught in MBA programmes.
You might try Little, S.E., Quintas, P., Ray, T.E. (eds) (2001) Managing Knowledge, an essential reader, London, Sage Publications Ltd. Which is a reader designed for MBA KM courses
Mark
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From: Management Education and Development Discussion on behalf of Michael JD Sutton
Sent: Thu 27/04/2006 15:42
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Subject: Framework for the Disciplines Taught in the Business Schools
Currently I am coordinating the Knowledge Management concentration within an interdisciplinary program called Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM) at Kent State University. IAKM was established through a collaborative effort between six schools and departments: Communication Studies, Computer Science, Graduate School of Business, Journalism and Mass Communication, Library and Information Science, and Visual Communication Design. The IAKM program is a young, unique, innovative program offering a Master's of Science degree.
Please accept my apologies in advance if the following query sounds like a mundane question. Although I have been involved in business and management for the last 35 years before returning to the academy, my mother discipline is Library and Information Sciences, (no need, I have heard the jokes before ~~GRIN~~).
Consequently, I do not have the detailed exposure to the disciplines taught in the graduate MBA and DBA courses that many of you might have.
I would like to integrate more MBA graduate students into my KM courses. I need to offer them a means of seeing my KM courses in light of their MBA (and DBA) course requirements and a value proposition for expanding their knowledge of a field that is becoming pervasive.
I am trying to locate a text or article that would discuss a detailed conceptual framework describing the domains/departments and significant theories associated with Business and Management fields, such as:
* Business Administration,
* Business Law, Governance, and Corporate Ethics
* Commerce,
* Digital Technologies Management,
* Economics,
* Entrepreneurship,
* Financial Management and Accounting,
* Human Resources Management,
* Innovation Management,
* International Management,
* Knowledge Management and Intellectual Property,
* Leadership,
* Management Consulting,
* Management Science (esp. Decision Support Systems),
* Marketing,
* MIS,
* Operations Research,
* Organizational Behaviour,
* Organizational Communications,
* Organizational Design and Development,
* Organizational Theory,
* Project Management,
* Public Administration and Policy
* Public Relations and Communications,
* Strategic Management
If I can appeal to a framework that makes sense to the graduate students, then I can integrate the theory and applied material they are already absorbing into the new emerging theories and practice for KM.
Thanking you in advance...
Cheers...
Michael JD Sutton, Assistant Professor
Kent State University
Information Architecture and Knowledge Management
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