Search in:

Advanced search

Knowledge Management Research & Practice Volume 11, 2013 - Issue 4

Submit an article Journal homepage

Views

CrossRef citations to date

Altmetric

Article

Organisational ‘know-where’ and ‘know-when’: re-framing configurations and distributions of knowledge in organisations

Andrew AthertonLancaster UniversityLancasterU.K.Correspondence[email protected]
View further author information

Pages 410-421 | Received 07 Nov 2011, Accepted 17 Jul 2012, Published online: 19 Dec 2017

Cite this article
https://doi.org/10.1057/kmrp.2012.40

Full Article
Figures & data
References
Citations
Metrics
Reprints & Permissions

References

AldrichHHerkerDBoundary spanning roles and organizational structureAcademy of Management Review197722217230
Google Scholar
AlvessonMKarremanDOdd couple: making sense of the curious concept of knowledge managementJournal of Management Studies2001387995101810.1111/1467-6486.00269
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
AnconaDCaldwellDBridging the boundary – external activity and performance in organizational teamsAdministrative Science Quarterly199237463466510.2307/2393475
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
BeckerMManaging dispersed knowledge: organizational problems, managerial strategies, and their effectivenessJournal of Management Studies20013871037105110.1111/1467-6486.00271
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
BlochMHow We Think they Think1998
Google Scholar
BorzilloSKaminska-LabbeRUnravelling the dynamics of knowledge creation in communities of practice through complexity theory lensesKnowledge Management Research & Practice20119435336610.1057/kmrp.2011.13
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
BourdieuPThe Logic of Practice1990
Google Scholar
BouveresseJRules, dispositions, and the habitusBourdieu: A Critical Reader1999
Google Scholar
BoydBDressGRushedADivergence between archival and perceptual measures of the environment: causes and consequencesAcademy of Management Review1993182204226
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
BrownJDuguidPOrganizational learning and communities-of-practice: toward a unified view of working, learning and innovationOrganization Science199121405710.1287/orsc.2.1.40
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
BrownJDuguidPOrganizing knowledgeCalifornia Management Review19984039011110.2307/41165945
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
de CerteauMThe Practice of Everyday Life1992
Google Scholar
CovinJSlevinDStrategic management of small firms in hostile and benign environmentsStrategic Management Journal1989101758710.1002/smj.4250100107
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
De ToniANoninoFPivettaMA model for assessing the coherence of companies’ knowledge strategyKnowledge Management Research & Practice20119432734110.1057/kmrp.2011.36
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
DenfordJChanYKnowledge strategy typologies: defining dimensions and relationshipsKnowledge Management Research & Practice20119210211910.1057/kmrp.2011.7
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
Easterby-SmithMLylesMTsangEInter-organizational knowledge transfer: current themes and future prospectsJournal of Management Studies200845467769010.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00773.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
FelinTHesterlyWThe knowledge-based view, nested heterogeneity, and new value creation: philosophical considerations on the locus of knowledgeAcademy of Management Review200732119521810.5465/AMR.2007.23464020
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
FossNThe emerging knowledge governance approach: challenges and characteristicsOrganization2007141295210.1177/1350508407071859
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GaoYFRileyMKnowledge and identity: a reviewInternational Journal of Management Reviews2010123317334
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GherardiSPractice-based theorizing on learning and knowing in organizationsOrganization20007221122310.1177/135050840072001
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GibbASmall firms’ training and competitiveness. Building upon the small business as a learning organizationInternational Small Business Journal199715331210.1177/0266242697153001
Google Scholar
GourlaySConceptualizing knowledge creation: a critique of Nonaka's theoryJournal of Management Studies20064371415143610.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00637.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GranovetterMThe strength of weak tiesAmerican Journal of Sociology19737861360138010.1086/225469
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GranovetterMEconomic action and social structure: the problem of embeddednessAmerican Journal of Sociology198591348151010.1086/228311
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
GrantRToward a knowledge-based theory of the firmStrategic Management Journal199617Winter Special Issue10912210.1002/smj.4250171110
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
HallRThe strategic analysis of intangible resourcesStrategic Management Journal199213213514410.1002/smj.4250130205
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
HallRA framework linking intangible resources and capabilities to sustainable competitive advantageStrategic Management Journal199314860761810.1002/smj.4250140804
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
HargadonAFanelliAAction and possibility: reconciling dual perspectives of knowledge in organizationsOrganization Science200213329030210.1287/orsc.13.3.290.2772
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
HartleyJBeningtonJCopy and paste, or graft and transplant? Knowledge sharing through inter-organizational networksPublic Money & Management200626210110810.1111/j.1467-9302.2006.00508.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
HeideggerMThe Basic Problems of Phenomenology1954
Google Scholar
HillRLevenhagenMMetaphors and mental models: sensemaking and sensegiving in innovative and entrepreneurial activitiesJournal of Management19952161057107410.1177/014920639502100603
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
LakomskiGOn knowing in contextBritish Journal of Management200415S1S89S9510.1111/j.1467-8551.2004.00408.x
Google Scholar
LauringJManaging cultural diversity and the process of knowledge sharing: a case from DenmarkScandinavian Journal of Management200925438539410.1016/j.scaman.2009.09.002
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
LaveJWengerESituated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation1991
Google Scholar
LindkvistLKnowledge communities and knowledge collectivities: a typology of knowledge work in groupsJournal of Management Studies20054261189121010.1111/j.1467-6486.2005.00538.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
MarchingtonMGrugulisI“Best practice” human resource management: perfect opportunity or dangerous illusion?International Journal of Human Resource Management20001161104112410.1080/09585190050177184
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
MargolisJPierre Bourdieu: habitus and the logic of practiceBourdieu: A Critical Reader19996483
Google Scholar
MarroneJTeslukPCarsonJA multilevel investigation of antecedents and consequences of team member boundary-spanning behaviorAcademy of Management Journal20075061423143910.5465/AMJ.2007.28225967
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
NahapietJGhoshalSSocial capital, intellectual capital, and the organisational advantageAcademy of Management Review1998232242266
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
NiewlemSKnowledge transfer across permeable boundaries: an empirical study of clients’ decisions to involve management consultantsScandinavian Journal of Management200925327528810.1016/j.scaman.2009.05.007
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
NonakaIA dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creationOrganization Science199451143710.1287/orsc.5.1.14
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
NonakaITakeuchiHThe concept of ‘ba’: building a foundation for knowledge creationCalifornia Management Review1995403405410.2307/41165942
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
ObergAWalgenbachPHierarchical structures of communication in a network organizationScandinavian Journal of Management200824318319810.1016/j.scaman.2008.03.011
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
OrlikowskiWKnowing in practice: enacting a collective capability in distributed organizingOrganization Science200213324927310.1287/orsc.13.3.249.2776
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
PolanyiMThe Tacit Dimension1967
Google Scholar
RobertsJLimits to communities of practiceJournal of Management Studies200643362363910.1111/j.1467-6486.2006.00618.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
RobertsonRScarbroughHSwanJKnowledge creation in professional service firms: institutional effectsOrganization Studies200324683185810.1177/0170840603024006002
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
ScaseRGoffeeRThe Real World of the Small Business Owner Manager1987
Google Scholar
SpenderJ-CMaking knowledge the basis of a dynamic theory of the firmStrategic Management Journal199617Winter Special Issue456210.1002/smj.4250171106
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
SwanJScarbroughHThe politics of networked innovationHuman Relations200558791394310.1177/0018726705057811
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
SzulanskiGExploring internal stickiness: impediments to the transfer of best practice within the firmStrategic Management Journal199617Winter Special Issue274310.1002/smj.4250171105
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TellFWhat do organizations know? Dynamics of justification contexts in R&D activitiesOrganization200411444347110.1177/1350508404044057
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TsoukasHThe firm as a distributed knowledge system: a constructionist approachStrategic Management Journal199617Winter Special Issue112510.1002/smj.4250171104
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TsoukasHMylonopoulosNIntroduction: knowledge construction and creation in organizationsBritish Journal of Management200415S1S1S810.1111/j.1467-8551.2004.t01-2-00402.x
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TsoukasHVladimirouEWhat is organizational knowledge?Journal of Management Studies200138797399310.1111/1467-6486.00268
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TurnerKMakhijaMThe role of organizational controls in managing knowledgeAcademy of Management Review200631119721710.5465/AMR.2006.19379631
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
TushmanMScanlanJBoundary spanning individuals: their role in information transfer and their antecedentsAcademy of Management Journal198124228930510.2307/255842
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
UnCCuervo-CazurraAStrategies for knowledge creation in firmsBritish Journal of Management200415S1S27S4210.1111/j.1467-8551.2004.00404.x
Google Scholar
ValkokariKPaasiJRantalaTManaging knowledge within networked innovationKnowledge Management Research & Practice2012101274010.1057/kmrp.2011.39
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
van MaanenJScheinEToward a theory of organizational socializationResearch in Organization Behavior197911209265
Google Scholar
von KroghGCare in knowledge creationCalifornia Management Review199840313315310.2307/41165947
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
WeickKSensemaking in Organizations1995
Google Scholar
WhiteJA small business is not a little big businessHarvard Business Review19815941823
Web of Science ®Google Scholar
YannowDTranslating local knowledge at organizational peripheriesBritish Journal of Management200415S1S9S2510.1111/j.1467-8551.2004.t01-1-00403.x
Google Scholar

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Share icon
Back to Top

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.

People also read
Recommended articles
Cited by

To cite this article:

Reference style: APA Chicago Harvard

Citation copied to clipboard

Reference styles above use APA (6th edition), Chicago (16th edition) & Harvard (10th edition)

Download citation

Download a citation file in RIS format that can be imported by citation management software including EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks and Reference Manager.

Choose format: RIS BibTex RefWorks Direct Export

Choose options: Citation Citation & abstract Citation & references

Organisational ‘know-where’ and ‘know-when’: re-framing configurations and distributions of knowledge in organisations

References

Information for

Open access

Opportunities

Help and information

Your download is now in progress and you may close this window

Login or register to access this feature

Organisational ‘know-where’ and ‘know-when’: re-framing configurations and distributions of knowledge in organisations

References

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Related research

To cite this article:

Download citation

Information for

Open access

Opportunities

Help and information

Keep up to date