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Universities are some of the largest and "purest" examples of "knowledge-based organisations". Under pressure from governments and senior managers univerisities in the industrialised world have, for the past twenty years, been moving away from "collegiate"/"democratic" forms of governance towards more "business-like" i.e. managerialist and top-down approaches.

Ironically, knowledge-intensive companies are now being encouraged to move in the opposite direction, in a Wall Street Journal
article yesterday.