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| Author: | Prieto, I.M. Revilla, E. Rodriguez-Prado, B. |
| Title: | Managing the knowledge paradox in product development |
| Journal: | Journal of Knowledge Management
2009 : VOL. 13:3, p. 157-170 |
| Index terms: | knowledge management product design product development projects Spain |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper aims to shed light on the connections btw. knowledge (herein as: knwl.) management (KM) and product development (here as: p-d.) as a knwl. intensive process. With the focus on the "social side" of KM, it is proposed that different KM orientations (herein as: ornts.) can come up as a result of higher/lower emphasis on cultural and structural (here as: c-and-s.) enablers. These KM ornts. generate specific potential to manage the tension and paradox of managing both knwl. exploration (as: k-explrn.) and knwl. exploitation (as: k-explotn.) knwl.during the p-d. Based on survey research with data gathered from 80 Spanish p-d. projects developed, it is shown that p-d. efforts can show three different KM ornts. significantly differing in their results as to k-explrn. and, particularly, as to k-explotn. In addition, p-d. requires a symbiosis btw. both c-and-s. enablers in order to best manage the paradox of exploration and exploitation. |
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