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What special management challenges and problems do organisations face in knowledge intensive sectors? How might these be tackled?
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What special management challenges and problems do organisations face in knowledge intensive sectors? How might these be tackled? I. Introduction The aim of this essay is to discuss the special management challenges and problems within knowledge intensive sectors, and how they might be tackled. The first section of the essay will begin by exploring some of the management challenges and problems faced by organisations in knowledge intensive sectors, with the following section based on how some of these have been tackled. The so-called knowledge-intensive firm (KIF) has gained considerable interest in the past few years. Winch et al (1993), state that one of the most distinctive characteristics of what they call a knowledge-based organisation is that they only have the expertise of their staff as assets with which to trade. Similarly, Starbuck (1992) claims that unlike traditional notions of firms that assumes financial or physical capital dominate labour, human capital dominates in...
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