Management of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: Governance Models for Transformative Discovery

This book focuses on enhancing management theories of Knowledge-Intensive Organizations (KIOs), analyzing academic and research institutions and multilateral agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO). The first part of the book discusses the trusteeship norms of academic KIOs and institutional barriers that generate bias in selecting the research agenda. The author then discusses how moral stakeholders affect a legitimate research scope, and research policies and academic KIOs address the issues. Finally, the book addresses how to control private incentives that stem from ownership components as well as ways to build alliance and governance mechanisms for this purpose. This work provides researchers with a discussion of the broader impacts of addressing global common goods from responsible KIO perspectives.

Ellie Okada is an academic, former visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Columbia Business School. She worked for a research university in Japan, Yokohama National University, as a tenured full professor for over 24 years. She is Senior Fellow, President, and Founder of the Boston Cancer Policy Institute, a research institute of management in new social sciences.