Knowledge Management
Coordenator: Édis Mafra Lapolli
Inicio Date: 2004
The Knowledge Management pathway defines Knowledge as “processes or products efficiently made resulting from relationships among people and non-human agents, aiming at value generation.” Having the introduction of conceptual and methodological bases for the implementation of knowledge-based organizational management. Therefore, It aims to transform individual knowledge into collective and corporate knowledge. Based on the autopoietic approach, contents and research carried out focus on corporate knowledge, on the economy, on the organization, and on the knowledge worker. It allows the understanding and emphasizes the importance of determinant factors of transformations that are taking place in the current society and that are leading humanity from the industrial age into the knowledge age. This area studies conceptual and methodological bases for the implementation of knowledge-based organizational management. Therefore, it aims at transforming individual knowledge into collective and organizational knowledge, ,, contents taught and research carried out by this area focus on organizational knowledge, economy and the knowledge worker. In this sense, the Knowledge Management Concentration Pathway stimulates the understanding of key factors for the transformations which are taking place in contemporary society, for instance, the transition from the industrial era to the knowledge era.
