Mapping Strategic Knowledge

by Anne Sigismund Huff

This book outlines a number of different tools for mapping strategic knowledge, and thus making knowledge more accessible. Anne Huff and Mark Jenkins have brought leading academics together to: * illustrate the contribution of knowledge mapping to central issues in strategy and organization theory * provide informed analysis and theory * consider the contribution of these studies to management practice * address practical theoretical and methodological limitations of these tools, including several software tools now available to facilitate mapping Each section of the book provides a table, which charts the chapters' main contents, key findings and implications for knowledge management. An annotated bibliography is provided at the end of the book as a resource for readers who may wish to become more familiar with relevant and existing literature in this area.

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Anne Huff is Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the TUM Business School in Munich, Germany, where she is helping organize research on open innovation that crosses traditional organizational boundaries, product-service fusion and leadership systems. She was Founding Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), a UK wide management research initiative with offices based at the London Business School, and continues to be a visiting AIM fellow at LBS. She is also a visiting professor in the Communications Department of the University of Colorado, and had prior appointments at the University of Illinois, and UCLA. She earned a BA from Barnard College (philosophy), as well as an MA (sociology) and PhD (management) from Northwestern University.

Her research interests focus on sustained innovation and strategic change; both are seen as dynamic processes of interaction among firms and as cognitive processes affected by the interaction of individuals over time. Recent books include Mapping Strategic Knowledge. Sage, 2002 (edited, with Mark Jenkins), When Firms Change Direction. Oxford University Press, 2000 (with James O. Huff), and Writing for Scholarly Publication (Sage, 1998). In 1998-99 Anne was President of the Academy of Management, an association of management researchers with 16,000 members worldwide; she held associated leadership positions from 1995 to 2001. In August 2003 she received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of that association. She serves on the boards of several professional organizations and journals.

Reviews

[Deniss Ojastu · Rating 4 out of 5]

An academic book about techniques of cognitive mapping applied in management research - a collection of articles and studies related to mental maps which provide a good overview of this field. Some of the studies presented in the book are quite interesting, especially those focusing on using software-facilitated studies. Dry scholarly approach.