| Author: | Hargadon, A. Fanelli, A. |
| Title: | Action and Possibility: Reconciling Dual Perspectives of Knowledge in Organizations |
| Journal: | Organization Science
2002 : MAY-JUN, VOL. 13:3, p. 290-302 |
| Index terms: | KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONS ACTION LEARNING |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Building on structuration theory, the authors propose a complementary perspective that views organizational knowledge as the product of an ongoing and recursive interaction between empirical and latent knowledge, between knowledge as action and knowledge as possibility. The authors ground this complementary model of knowledge in evidence from the field study of two firms whose innovation practices provide unique insights into how knowledge simultaneously enables and constrains behavior in organizations. The authors then discuss how a complementary perspective avoids the reification of knowledge by depicting it instead as an ongoing and social process and offers an alternative distinction between individual and collective knowledge. |
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