Architectures of Knowledge Firms, Capabilities, and Communities
| Author/creator | Amin, Ash Author |
| Other author | Cohendet, Patrick Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 200 p. ill 06.300 x 09.300 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation In Knowledge Practices, Ash Amin and patrick Cohendet argue that the time is right for research to explore the relationship between two other dimensions of knowledge in order to explain the innovative performance of firms: between knowledge that is "possessed" and knowledge that is "practiced" generally within communities of like-minded employees in a firm. The impetus behind this argument is both conceptual and empirical. Conceptually, there is a need to explore the interaction of knowledge that firms possess in the form of established competencies or stored memory, with the knowing that occurs in distributed communities through the conscious and unconscious acts of social interaction. Empirically, the impetus comes from the challenge faced by firms to the hierarchically defined architecture that bring together specialized units of (possessed) knowledge and the distributed and always unstable architecture of knowledge that draws on the continuously changing capacity of interpretation among actors. In this book, these questions of the dynamics of innovating/learning through practices of knowing, and the management of the interface between transactional and knowledge imperatives, are approached in a cross-disciplinary and empirically grounded manner. The book is the synthesis of an innovative encounter between a socio-spatial theorist and an economist. The book results from the delicate interplay between two very different epistemologies and consequent position |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003065259 |
| ISBN | 9780199253326 |
| ISBN | 0199253323 (Trade Cloth) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780199253326 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |