Airline pilots are attributed ultimate responsibility and final authority over their aircraft to ensure the safety and well-being of all its occupants. Yet, with the advent of automation technologies, a dissonance has emerged in that pilots have lost their actual decision-making authority as...

Purpose: This paper aims to show agential realism as the basis for a pertinent framework with regard to the entwined, on-going and interpretative aspects of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach: The knowledge flow phenomenon in the form of entanglement and agential “cuts” within the...

1. The Ambiguous Knowledge of Mètis: Enter the Street-Smart Expert -- 2. From Ancient Greece to the Digital Workplace: A Story of Mètis’ Usurpation -- 3. The Dilemma of Developing and Maintaining High Level Expertise -- 4. IT’s Impressive, but Sometimes Misleading Track Record -- 5. Power...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim to characterise the knowledge management process of the ageing human capital, within the sectors of aeronautics and bio‐technologies in Canada. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology consists of: cross‐search of literature towards the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge is constructed and risk is induced within the workgroup environment of a large North American aerospace company. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an epistemological position on knowledge and risk, an initial conceptual...