Twenty-fifth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Topics

• Knowledge Economies as the Constant
  • Blurring the boundaries: formal vs. informal learning, training, and education
  • Reconceptualizing `economy` in knowledge societies
  • New types of organizations: what do you need to learn today, how to prepare for tomorrow
  • An appropriate education for the new work orders: managing vs. preempting change
  • Making the most of intellectual and human capital: understanding small data, aggregating big data
  • Technologies and organizational change: removing heritage systems and moving forward with new tech
  • Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity
  • Addressing the divides: digital, development, social
• Organizational Intangibles and Tangible Value
  • Balancing internal and external intangible drivers
  • Vision, strategy, and leadership: the top-down and bottom-up
  • Managing intangibles for tangible outcomes
  • Creating the conditions of innovation
  • Networks, clusters, alliances: building collaborative organizational cultures
  • Building intellectual capital and maintaining intellectual property
  • Developing sustainable organizational cultures: government, community, and NGOs
• The Value of Culture and the Demand of Change
  • What makes a culture of success: negotiating past, present future
  • What is organizational culture? `Organic`, `community`, `complexity` and other metaphors
  • Agonies of change: working with order and chaos; regularity and complexity
  • The balance of markets, clients, stakeholders and community expectations
  • The inclusive and supportive workplace: ethics, equality, care
  • Productive diversity: capitalizing on human differences
  • Globalization, internationalization and organizational change
  • Different ways of working?
  • Legal and regulatory challenges in a constantly changing environment
• Organizations as Knowledge Makers
  • Who makes a knowledge worker: workplace vs lifelong learning?
  • What is knowledge and what is the role of learning?
  • Mentoring: where leadership means knowledge transfer
  • The balance of personal capacity and organizational resources
  • Knowledge as a factor of production or an underlying expense?
  • Restructuring: revamping, rethinking and reevaluation
  • Transforming personal knowledge into common knowledge