Knowledge Management in Collaborative Policy Descision-Making
This article investigates the knowledge governance capacity for effective policy-making and reveals its mechanisms. The author points out the shift of contemporary social inquiry from knowledge management activities towards the concept of steering mode asserted knowledge as the ability to legitimate action for achieving societal goals and determined the effectiveness of its acquisition and implementation in public policy process. This concept implies rethinking of joint action and participation in co-production of knowledge. Using the evidence from the BC Dairy Quota Policy Changing case author presumes the importance of bureaucratic knowledge characteristics and its implicit dimension for an effective collaboration among multiple actors.