Karl Popper’s ideas of objective kn

Karl Popper’s ideas of objective knowledge seem to be taken very seriously in some
academic circles. As a result, some (e.g. Marr and Chatzkel, 2004) have devoted significant efforts to measure the economic value of knowledge. Others (e.g. Alavi and Tiwana, 2005), have consistently supported the development IT-based ‘solutions’ to ‘manage’ knowledge. Similarly, the managerial practitioner-oriented literature (Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Ruggles, 1997), has been developing conceptual models and tools to facilitate
knowledge creation, sharing, storage, and distribution. All of the above views assumed, à la Popper, that knowledge can be explicated, codified, stored, (de)codified and understood
without problems. Because of this, the transfer of codified knowledge is one of the most
taken-for-granted aspects in the knowledge management literature.