| Summary: | 博士 === 國立政治大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 96 === This dissertation applies and extends a living open system view of organization in description and interpretation of being and becoming of knowledge body of organization，which is a metaphysical part of organization and constituted by information、knowledge and intellectual properties as elements of a living open system。This study provides a dynamic view of existence of knowledge in organization which is to critic and differentiate with contemplated intellectual capital theory with tendency toward a static aspect。System science approach、physiological analogy and non-linear model were applied in this study for describing the process of preservation of knowledge value in organization which is different with previous studies of Nonaka and Takeuchi with tendency toward the mechanic aspect of knowledge formation process in organization。
A theory of knowledge system of organization was developed which claimed every living economic organization who want to survive must rely on its knowledge system survive first。 Organization processes information，its physical part also is changing at the same time which is driving by knowledge value metabolism happened first in its knowledge system。To build the theory，a information processing theory (Galarbith, 1971)、a theoretical view of organism rely on feeding on negative entropy to survive (Schrödinger, 1944) and a theory of information is equal to negative entropy (Wiener, 1948) were integrated for converting the equation of dissipative structure theory of Prigogine to a equation of preservative structure theory of knowledge value of organization。On the analogy of knowledge system as a physiological system to interpret knowledge value change of knowledge system is the net of its system internal new knowledge value formation (termed anabolism) and existing knowledge value decay (termed catabolism)。Then this study uses non-linear equations to build mathematical models and selects different sets of simulation parameters to simulate knowledge value change in different life cycle stages of knowledge system to demonstrate being and becoming of knowledge system。The contributions of this study are：
1.On theory building，theories of Galarbith, Schrödinger, Wiener and Prigogine were successfully integrated into a theory of knowledge system of organization。
2. On the epistemological level，a living open system view was adopted to clearly describe the being and becoming of knowledge system of organization。On the ontological level，the physiological system analogy and non-linear system simulation make it is able to ensure the existence of knowledge system of organization。On the methodology level，the equation of preservation of knowledge value of knowledge system of organization was constructed and extended to linkage with non linear equations, make it feasible to qualitatively describe the knowledge value change in the whole life cycle of knowledge system of organization。
3. With an analogy of metabolism of physiological system and knowledge system of organization，it can be clearly explained that the knowledge value change of knowledge system is its sum of the system internal effect of anabolism and catabolism。
4. Metabolism of knowledge system can be clearly described via a concise non-linear equation，which makes it feasible to prove intuition by mathematical simulation。
Key Words：Knowledge System、Dissipative Structure、Preservative Structure、Metabolism、Anabolism、Catabolism。
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