Book. Knowledge in action. Chapter 2. The promise and challenge of knowledge markets. How organizations handle what they know

Abstract

This essay shows a critical and reflective interpretation of chapter 2 of Davenport's book (2001), called the Promise and Challenge of Knowledge Markets, it is an input is part of a doctoral research project, based on the interpretive paradigm with a qualitative approach, in which a grounded theory research methodology is assumed focused on the need to build a theoretical construct that allows working with human realities, referring to specific procedures to carry out research - scientific study, very different from the one you are used to in traditional research; where the Public University is taken as a study phenomenon. In this same sense, this chapter refers to knowledge as an element of great primary value to achieve the development of organizations in this globalized and changing world that today faces the challenge of competitiveness as an advantage product of such knowledge.