Knowledge, Economy and Society

ICTs in the Contemporary World: work management and culture
ESRC Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Series
Inaugural seminar, 14 June 2002

This seminar involved two presentations from different perspectives.

10 - 10.10am

Introduction by Jannis Kallinikos

10.10 - 11.15am

Haridimos Tsoukas - Do we really understand tacit knowledge?

11.45am - 1pm

Richard Hull - The Emergence of 'Knowledge' as a Unit of Analysis in the Social Sciences (The Great Lie: markets, freedom and knowledge)

2 - 3pm

Panel discussion

 

Haridomis Tsoukas is Professor of Organisational Theory and Behaviour at Strathclyde University and at ALBA in Athens, and is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory.

Dr Richard Hull was a lecturer in sociology at Brunel University and is currently a senior lecturer at Newcastle Business School. He is editor of Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy and Managing Knowledge: critical investigations of work and learning.

This is the first seminar in the series ICTs in the Contemporary World: work management and culture, which explores the social and economic consequences associated with the expanding organisational and public involvement of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

ESRC Economic and Social Research Council logoThe seminar series is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is open to the public. UK PhD students are particularly encouraged to participate and their travels costs are subsidised. Email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk  for more information about support for doctoral students.

Registration is not essential but it helps us to organise the event if you can email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk tell us if you plan to attend.

The seminar will be held in S75 in the St Clement's Building (see How to find us).

Email e.s.keys@lse.ac.uk to request information about future seminars.

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