Rotten with perfection? : an exploration of the rhetoric of knowledge in knowledge management : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management, Massey University, Albany

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dc.contributor.authorTeo-Dixon, Grace Poh Lyn
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-24T20:29:37Z
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dc.date.available2010-05-24T20:29:37Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionContent removed from thesis due to copyright restrictions: Teo-Dixon, G. & Monin, N. (2007). Guru of gurus: Peter Drucker, logology, and the ultimate leader. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16(1), 6-17. doi:10.11777/1056492606294637en_US
dc.description.abstractKnowledge management (KM) is a topic of interest to local and national organisations on the potential of ‘knowledge’. In over a decade of theorising, the concept of knowledge as projected by theory seems to remain largely positive. My research probes these concepts of knowledge and asks if it was rhetoric that sustained these images of knowledge and, if so, what were the processes that enabled it to do so. In this thesis, I critically examine several academic texts in KM theory and find out that the concept of knowledge in KM as portrayed by these texts is rhetorically perfect but potentially corrupted. Concepts of knowledge which have been ignored or omitted in KM become apparent in a unique method of rhetorical analysis which I have developed and called ‘embedded cluster-agon’ analysis. Based on this analysis, I propose that in the ‘perfecting’ of knowledge a ‘dark side’ has developed. In the KM theory analysed, this emerges as a pattern of assumptions that regards individuals as: resources to be exploited, pawns in organisational strategies, victims of unbalanced power relationships and anonymous nodes on networks. This hints at a possible lack of moral or ethical consideration in managing knowledge. Therefore, KM needs to be theorised with care.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/1339
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectKnowledge managementen_US
dc.subjectOrganisational knowledgeen_US
dc.subject.otherFields of Research::350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services::350200 Business and Managementen_US
dc.titleRotten with perfection? : an exploration of the rhetoric of knowledge in knowledge management : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management, Massey University, Albanyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorTeo-Dixon, Grace Poh Lyn
thesis.degree.disciplineManagementen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
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