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| Author: | Tell, F. |
| Title: | What do organizations know? Dynamics of justification contexts in R&D activities |
| Journal: | Organization
2004 : JUL, VOL. 11:4, p. 443-471 |
| Index terms: | Knowledge Organizational behaviour R&D |
| Freeterms: | Justification |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A framework for analyzing organizational knowledge as a process of justification in different contexts is suggested in this paper. Four principal contexts for justification, implying four different knowledge types are identified drawing upon philosophy: objective knowledge, subjective knowledge, personal knowledge and institutional knowledge. Empirical illustrations of these knowledge types and the justification processes involved from various studies of activities in R&D and engineering are provided in the paper. The article contributes to the literature on organizational knowledge in several aspects. |
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