While there are many books on knowledge management, knowledge governance is a concept that has not been so well explored, and is much less understood. Knowledge governance refers to choosing structures and mechanisms that can influence the processes of sharing and creating knowledge.

Nicolai J Foss is Professor of Economic Organization at the Copenhagen Business School and the Director of the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at the CBS. His main research interests are knowledge governance, strategic management, the economics of the firm, and the philosophy of the social sciences. His work has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science.
Snejina Michailova is Professor of International Business at The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. Originally from Bulgaria, she holds a PhD degree from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her main research areas are international management and knowledge governance. Her work has appeared in The Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Long Range Planning, Journal of World Business, Organizational Learning and Organizational Dynamics.

• 1: Snejina Michailova and Nicolai Foss: Knowledge Governance: Introduction to the Book


• 2: Bruce Heiman, Jackson Nickerson, and Todd Zenger: Governing Knowledge: A Problem-Solving Perspective


• 3: Michael Christensen and Thorbjørn Knudsen: The Architecture of Knowledge Organization


• 4: Anna Grandori: Polyarchic Governance and the Growth of Knowledge


• 5: Kirsten Foss and Nicolai J. Foss: Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge


• 6: Margit Osterloh and Antoinette Weibel: The Governance of Explorative Knowledge Production


• 7: Linda Argote and Aimée A. Kane: Superordinate Social Identity, Receptivity to Innovations, and Knowledge Transfer in Organizations


• 8: Kenneth Husted and Snejina Michailova: Socialization Tactics as a Governance Mechanism in RandD Collaborations


• 9: Harry Scarbrough and Kenneth Amaeshi: Evolutionary Interactions of Context and Content in the Development of Knowledge Governance: Evidence from UK RandD Partnerships


• 10: Teppo Felin and JC Spender: Knowledge Governance: A Dialogue Concerning its Epistemological Foundations


• 11: Nicolai Foss and Snejina Michailova: Lessons Learned