Architectures of knowledge
Architectures of knowledge: firms, capabilities, and communities Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet
Publisher: Oxford, UK ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0199253323
DDC: 306.3
LCC: HD30.2
Edition: (hb.)
Summary:
"In Architectures of Knowledge, 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 of 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 positions, but which progressively converged towards
what is hoped to be a novel vision. The book begins by explaining why
knowledge is becoming more of a core element of the value -
generating process in the economy, then juxtaposes the economic and
cognitive theorization's of knowledge in firms with pragmatic and
socially grounded theorization's and a critical exploration of the
neglected dimension of the spatiality of knowledge formation in
firms. The book concludes by discussing the corporate governance
implications of learning based on competencies and communities, and a
how national science and technology policies might respond to the
idea of learning as a distributed, non-cognitive, practice-based
phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-174) and index.
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