Analysis of the knowledge creation process: an organizational change perspective
International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior
ISSN: 1093-4537
Article publication date: 1 March 2007
Abstract
Knowledge creation (KC) is an important issue in a knowledge society. Organizational change is required to facilitate KC which embraces knowledge access and selection, knowledge diffusion, knowledge application, and knowledge storage. In this paper, three momenta of organizational change are reviewed and integrated. Knowledge access and selection driven by institutional regulation takes place in the beginning phase, knowledge diffusion and knowledge application driven by rationality in the subsequent phase, and knowledge storage driven by structural inertia in the last phase. Once the right momentum influences organizational change in the wrong phase, KC can rarely be accomplished.
Citation
Chen, C.-A. (2007), "Analysis of the knowledge creation process: an organizational change perspective", International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 287-313. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-10-03-2007-B001
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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