Discourse about knowledge-based economies rarely moves beyond the commercialization of science and engineering, and is locked in the discursive limits of functionalism. We argue that these discourses limit the scope of what knowledge-based economies might achieve because they are uninformed by...

Communicative rationality offers a new paradigm for transportation planning. Drawing on the literature and lessons from transportation planning practice, this paper describes the characteristics of a “communicative” form of transportation planning and compares them with conventional...

The introduction of knowledge teams, as a new form of work organization, is one of many institutional transformations associated with the knowledge economy. The research on the effects of this new form of work organization on the social processes by which knowledge workers exchange, create, and...