What Is Wrong With K-Everything?

Abstract

The flood of books, papers, conferences, and workshops about knowledge management, knowledge economy, knowledge workers, and knowledge society is incessant. Europe wants to become the best knowledge-based economy in the world. Millions of Euros are pumped every year in national and international research projects dedicated to k-something. This paper is in a certain way against the grain, aiming to demythologize some of the k-excitement.

Keywords

• knowledge-based
• knowledge management
• knowledge economy
• knowledge society