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HANDBOOK ON THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
Handbook on the
Knowledge Economy
Edited by
David Rooney
Senior Lecturer, UQ Business School,
University of Queensland, Australia
Greg Hearn
Professor, Creative Industries Faculty,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Abraham Ninan
Senior Research Associate, Creative Industries Faculty,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© David Rooney, Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan 2005
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical
or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the
publisher.
Published by
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Glensanda House
Montpellier Parade
Cheltenham
Glos GL50 1UA
UK
Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.
136 West Street
Suite 202
Northampton
Massachusetts 01060
USA
A catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Rooney, David, 1959–
Handbook on the knowledge economy / David Rooney, Greg Hearn, Abraham
Ninan.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Knowledge management. 2. Information technology. I. Hearn, Greg, 1957–
II. Ninan, Abraham, 1965– III. Title. IV. Series
2005
´038—dc22
2005044218
ISBN 1 84376 795 3 (cased)
Typeset by Cambrian Typesetters, Camberley, Surrey
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
List of tables vii
List of figures viii
List of contributors ix
Preface xv
1 Knowledge: concepts, policy, implementation 1
David Rooney, Greg Hearn and Abraham Ninan
PART I CONCEPTS
2 The material, mental, historical and social character of knowledge 19
David Rooney and Ursula Schneider
3 Wisdom, ethics and the anization 37
Bernard McKenna
4 Risk and knowledge 54
Joost van Loon
5 Social epistemology: