PhD research on knowledge productivity
Yesterday I attended the defense of Christiaan Stam's PhD-thesis 'Knowledge productivity, designing and testing a method to diagnose knowledge productivity and plan for enhancement'. The subject of his research is very much related to mine (knowledge productivity!) and I've read it with great interest. He combines two perspectives on knowledge productivity: a process perspective and an output perspective. The research has resulted in the design of a participative method to support organisations in diagnosing their knowledge productivity and ways for enhancing that. His work not only contributes to the further conceptual elaboration of the concept of knowledge productivity and the corporate curriculum, it also offers a very thorough design based research approach (including alpha and beta-testing!). The complete dissertation is online available via his website on intellectual capital (a website about intellectual capital that distributes a complete dissertation has indeed a very unusual approach to intellectual capital!).
