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  1. The Paradox of Strategizing: Embracing Managerial Agency without Throttling it

    Article • June 2022, Enviro Research Publishers

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  2. Technology: Discourse and Possibility

    Article • January 2015, Wiley

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  3. Strategizing

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  4. Modern Management: Origins and Development

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  5. Simon, Herbert (1916–2001)

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  6. Knowledge Management: Origins, History, and Development

    Article • October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  7. The interaction of intellectual capital assets and knowledge management practices in organizational value creation

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Capital, July 2014, Emerald

    Aino Kianto, Professor J. -C. Spender, Professor Paavo Ritala, Mika Vanhala

  8. Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  9. Persuading Supporters

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  10. Introduction to Strategic Work, Language, and Value

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  11. Strategic Analysis—Consulting Tools

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  12. Strategic Analysis—Academic Models

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  13. Building Language and the Business Model

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  14. The Business Strategist’s World

    Article • January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  15. Strategic Conversations

    Article • January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  16. BSchools and Their Business Models

    Article • Academy of Management Proceedings, January 2014, The Academy of Management

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  17. The Three Phases of Max Boisot’s Theorizing

    Article • June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  18. Intangibles: theory, categories, and the Kozminski matrix

    Article • Knowledge Management Research & Practice, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  19. Herbert Alexander Simon: Philosopher of the Organizational Life-World

    Article • February 2013

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  20. Why Competitive Strategy succeeds – and with whom

    Article • February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  21. The Oxford Handbook of Human Capital

    Article • January 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  22. Human Capital and Agency Theory

    Article • January 2011

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  23. Introduction

    Article • January 2011

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  24. The Resource-Based View: A Review and Assessment of Its Critiques

    Article • Journal of Management, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  25. An Exchange of Ideas About Knowledge Governance: Seeking First Principles and Microfoundations

    Article • January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  26. Reviewed by J.-C. Spender, ESADE Business School, Spain, and Lund University, Sweden

    Article • Academy of Management Review, October 2008, The Academy of Management

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  27. Innovation and Learning in High-Reliability Organizations: A Case Study of United States and Russian Nuclear Attack Submarines, 1970–2000

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, August 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  28. Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management: Whence and Whither?

    Article • Management Learning, April 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  29. Can Simon's Notion of `Bounded Rationality' Give Us New Ideas About Leadership?

    Article • Leadership, February 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  30. Management as a Regulated Profession

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, March 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  31. Knowledge Management, Technology and Organization

    Article • February 2007, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  32. The Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge Management: Editors' Introduction

    Article • Organization, January 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  33. Data, meaning and practice: how the knowledge-based view can clarify technology's relationship with organisations

    Article • International Journal of Technology Management, January 2007, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  34. 2006 Index

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, December 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  35. Getting value from knowledge management

    Article • The TQM Journal, May 2006, Emerald

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  36. How a knowledge-based approach might illuminate the notion of human capital and its measurement

    Article • Expert Systems with Applications, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  37. Method, philosophy and empirics in KM and IC

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Capital, January 2006, Emerald

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  38. Speaking about management education

    Article • Management Decision, December 2005, Emerald

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  39. A Knowledge-based Perspective on Intellectual Capital

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  40. Book Review: Organizations as Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities

    Article • Organization Studies, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  41. Book Review: Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

    Article • Organization Studies, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  42. Organizations As Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities

    Article • Innovation, December 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  43. Knowledge Fields: Some Post-9/11 Thoughts about the Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  44. Exploring uncertainty and emotion in the knowledge‐based theory of the firm

    Article • Information Technology and People, September 2003, Emerald

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  45. Tacit Knowledge in Organizations

    Article • Academy of Management Review, April 2000, The Academy of Management

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  46. Tacit Knowledge in Organizations.

    Article • Academy of Management Review, April 2000, The Academy of Management

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  47. Organizational Knowledge, Collective Practice and Penrose Rents

    Article • January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  48. Pluralist Epistemology and the Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm

    Article • Organization, May 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  49. Making knowledge the basis of a dynamic theory of the firm.

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, December 1996, Wiley

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  50. Knowledge and the firm: Overview

    Article • Strategic Management Journal, December 1996, Wiley

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  51. Scientific Management

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  52. Villain, Victim or Visionary?: The Insights and Flaws in F. W. Taylor’s Ideas

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  53. Managerial judgement in strategic marketing:

    Article • Management Decision, August 1995, Emerald

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  54. Organizational Renewal: Top Management's Role in a Loosely Coupled System

    Article • Human Relations, August 1995, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  55. Managing the Uncertainties of Innovation: Extending Thompson (1967)

    Article • Human Relations, January 1995, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  56. Organizational knowledge, collective practice and Penrose rents

    Article • International Business Review, December 1994, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  57. Dynamics of Competitive Strategy.

    Article • Academy of Management Review, October 1994, The Academy of Management

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  58. Knowing, Managing and Learning

    Article • Management Learning, September 1994, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  59. SOME FRONTIER ACTIVITIES AROUND STRATEGY THEORIZING

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, January 1993, Wiley

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  60. J.-C. Spender: Industry Recipes. An Inquiry into the Nature and Sources of Managerial Judgement

    Article • Organization Studies, April 1991, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  61. Reflections on Intelligence

    Article • Journal of the Operational Research Society, January 1991, Taylor & Francis

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  62. Meeting Mintzberg —and thinking again about management education

    Article • European Management Journal, September 1989, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  63. What do managers really do for their organizations?

    Article • European Management Journal, March 1989, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  64. Strategies and styles: The role of the centre in managing diversified corporations

    Article • European Management Journal, December 1988, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  65. Identifying computer users with authentication devices (tokens)

    Article • Computers & Security, October 1987, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  66. Computer security and user authentication - Old problems, new solutions

    Article • December 1986, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  67. Crisis Casework for Policy Courses

    Article • Exchange The Organizational Behavior Teaching Journal, June 1983, SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  68. IEEE Trans. Profess. Commun.

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    DI Dr. techn. Issa Ibraheem, Professor Alberto Policriti, Professor Marco d'Ischia, Professor Gianni Pedrizzetti, Professor Ojan Assadian, Professor Graziamaria Corbi, Professor Michel Aillerie, Professor H. Faghihian, Professor J. -C. Spender, Professor Rafael F Caldeirinha, Professor Kamaruzaman Jusoff, Professor TAIAR redha, Professor Ghaleb A. Husseini

  69. Structural Adjustments and Conflicting Recipes in the US Auto Industry

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  70. Nonaka and KM’s Past, Present and Future

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  71. Humanizing Management Education

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  72. Management, Rational or Creative: A Knowledge-Based Discussion

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  73. Scientific Management

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  74. Preface

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  75. Measuring the future

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  76. Epilogue – on managing

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  77. Further reading

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  78. Business Policy and Strategy as a Professional Field

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  79. Multinational Theorizing: Some Methodological Comments about John Dunning’s Eclectic Approach

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  80. Design Thinking in the Postmodern Organization

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  81. Managing a socially constructed technology: the case of CT scanning

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  82. Introduction – what are strategic conversations?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  83. The strategic conversations imperative

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  84. Strategic conversations in the wild

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  85. Engaging employees in management’s agenda

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  86. Strategizing and the leaders’ role

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  87. Putting strategic conversations into practice – innovation communities

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  88. Conversation trumps structure – new norms for dialog

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  89. Strategic conversations across geographies, generations, and the multitude

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  90. Engaging the world outside in the conversation

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  91. Creating a self-reinforcing innovation platform – collateral benefits

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  92. Knowing, Managing and Learning: A Dynamic Managerial Epistemology

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender

  93. Competitive Advantage from Tacit Knowledge? Unpacking the Concept and Its Strategic Implications

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor J. -C. Spender