JJ Hans Berends

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use structuration theory to overcome the dualism of individual and organization in organizational learning, and show how organizational learning evolves from distributed social practices, creatively realized by knowledgeable individuals, and illustrate how these practices are enabled and constrained by existing structur

TL;DR: In this article, two exploratory field studies of knowledge sharing in industrial research organizations were conducted, and three dimensions that differentiate origination mechanisms for knowledge sharing were introduced. And based on their field studies, they showed that each of these knowledge-sharing mechanisms have a different value for industrial research practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how the involvement of external designers influences the evolution of product design processes in small manufacturing firms and showed how these processes iterated between divergence and convergence and between goal setting and idea development.

TL;DR: The paper contributes to the nascent study of the justification of organizational knowledge by showing the different roles of moves in the development of justified solutions and discusses the facilitation of the different types of knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate if and how it is possible to purposefully create Communities of Practice (CoPs) and evaluate the launch of four CoPs within Rolls-Royce.