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Reflections on Knowledge and Knowledgeintensive Firms
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Knowledge in organizations and, more particularly, in knowledgeintensive firms is an important topic as discussed by the authors, however, some contemporary approaches tend to over-use the concept of tacit knowledge leading to mystification and magification.Abstract:
Knowledge in organizations and, more particularly, in knowledgeintensive firms is an important topic. However, some contemporary approaches tend to over-use the concept of tacit knowledge leading to mystification and magification. Knowledge creation, storage and transmission in organizations may be rationalized and foster bureaucratization, consonant with the Weberian tendency towards formal rationality. The ideationalist nature of certain theorizing may lead to unrealistic accounts of knowledge in organizations. Antithetic positivist theory can offer illumination on some aspects of organizations and so analysts should not confine themselves to ideationalist theories. Arguments for the importance of knowledge in organizations can become enmeshed in claims that society is post-capitalist, which are best avoided. Future researchers would do better to follow the lead of the articles in this special edition and analyse knowledge in organizations in a careful empirical and skeptical fashion.read more
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The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation
TL;DR: In this article, Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that Japanese firms are successful precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies, and they reveal how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge.
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The Limits of Organization
TL;DR: The Limits of Organization as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of economic analysis and policy making, focusing on the role of organization in economic decision-making, and its effect on economic outcomes.
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Knowledge processes, knowledge‐intensity and innovation: a moderated mediation analysis
Tatiana Andreeva,Aino Kianto +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that while all knowledge processes have a beneficial impact on innovation, knowledge creation impacts innovation the most and fully mediates the impact of knowledge documentation, intra‐organizational knowledge sharing and external knowledge acquisition on innovation performance.
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Objectivity and subjectivity in knowledge management: a review of 20 top articles
TL;DR: Classifies the KM publications on the subjectivity‐objectivity continuum, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the publications drawing from positivism and interpretative philosophies, and further discusses the challenges in KM, and how objectivity and subjectivity can be used to provide both product and process orientations in future research.
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Towards conceptual clarity for ‘tacit knowledge’: a review of empirical studies
TL;DR: Tacit knowledge appears due to both experience with the particular objects it is applied to, and to general experiences as discussed by the authors, and it is suggested that in the interests of clarity use of the term should be limited to the latter.
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