Jon-Arild Johannessen

Knowledge Management as a Strategic Asset

Jon-Arild Johannessen examines the history of knowledge management in order to highlight the contributions that the discipline can make to twenty-first-century strategic challenges.

Conclusion: Innovation Policy

This chapter, Conclusion, discusses innovation policy, or what to do with the knowledge that innovation leads to economic crises. This chapter answers the question readers may have when they read the book: So what? The answer is framed as a policy-model, which can be used by management and political leadership.

The Long Recession 2008

This chapter will examine the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises. The specific analysis will focus on the ongoing economic crisis that started in the autumn of 2007. The following question will be considered: Is there a relationship between innovations and the economic crisis that was triggered in 2007? The purpose of the investigation is to discover which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the economic crisis.

The Great Depression of the 1930s

This chapter examines the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises, with a special focus on the economic crisis in the 1930s. The following question is considered: Is there a relationship between innovations and the economic crisis of the 1930s? The purpose of the investigation is to discover which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the economic crisis of the 1930s.

The South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles of 1720

This chapter examines the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises, with a special focus on the economic crisis in Britain in 1720. The Mississippi Bubble and the economic crisis in France is described and analysed as well, because the British and French economic crises were interwoven. The following question is considered: Is there a relationship between innovations and economic crises? The purpose of the investigation is to discover which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the economic crisis of 1720.

The Long Depression: 1873–1893

This chapter examines the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises, with a particular focus on the economic crisis that began in 1873 and continued until 1879 in the USA and until 1893 in Europe. The following question is examined: Is there a relationship between innovations and the economic crisis of 1873–1893? The purpose of the chapter is to determine which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the economic crisis in 1873.

The Long Economic Crisis of the Third Century

This chapter examines the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises, with a particular focus on the economic crisis of the third century. The following question is examined: Is there a relationship between innovations and the economic crises of the third century ? The purpose of the chapter is to find out which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the economic crisis of the third century.

The Tulip Crisis of 1637

This chapter examines the assumption that there is a relationship between innovations and economic crises, with a particular focus on the Amsterdam Tulip Crisis of 1637. The following question is examined: Is there a relationship between innovations and economic crises? The purpose of the chapter is to determine which innovations triggered the social mechanisms that led to the Tulip Crisis.