SMS CONFERENCE 2011
KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATIONS
Interview with Professor Sidney Winter
MiamiNovember 6, 2011
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WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
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5,500,000 people travel by air
88,000,000 barrels of oil produced
1,000,000 PCs sold to customers
154,000 cars roll down the production lines
A DAY ON EARTH
“Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production”
Alfred Marshall, 1890
enough to fill 5600 olympic swimming pools
and many, many more
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Wal-Mart Stores
US Postal Service
IBM
AT&T
2,100,000 employees
671,000 employees
426,000 employees
265,000 employees
Annaly Capital Management Inc.
87 employees
Examples of US top 1000 companies by revenue (2011), surface corresponds to the number of employeesSource: Datamonitor
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SCHOLARLY ROUTE
BEFORE AND AFTER NELSON AND WINTER 1982
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0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007
Number of citations in Google Scholar (1982 - 2011)
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KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
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1980s - 1990s
1993 - 2005
2011 - ?
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KNOWLEDGE IN ACTION
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MANAGING
LUCK OR SKILL?
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Thank you
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