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The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and Characteristics

Nicolai J. Foss

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway and Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

The ‘knowledge governance approach’ is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management, organization studies, strategy and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge. It insists on clear micro (behavioural) foundations, adopts an economizing perspective, and examines the links between knowledge-based units of analysis with diverse characteristics and governance mechanisms with diverse capabilities of handling these transactions. Research issues that the knowledge governance approach illuminates are sketched.

Key Words: governance • knowledge management • organizational economics

Organization, Vol. 14, No. 1, 29-52 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407071859
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