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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Tywoniak, Stephane A. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Knowledge in four deformation dimensions |
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2007 |
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p.53-76. |
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Jan |
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This paper sketches a complexity conceptualization of knowledge. Building from evolutionary theories, it defines knowledge as rules that reduce environmental uncertainty through connections between ideas and facts. Knowledge is conceived as a structure validated through action, a process contextualized in individual experience and a system embedded in social and cultural experience. It exhibits four characteristics of a complex system: it is sensitive to initial conditions, exhibits multiple feedback loops, is non-linear and is recursively symmetrical. Knowledge's four interdependent deformation dimensions are identified (personal, common, tacit and explicit) and their interactions are discussed. This conceptualization of knowledge as a complex system contributes to the knowledge-based theory of the firm by providing some micro-foundations to organizational knowledge, and it opens the opportunity to re-think theories of communities of practice, entrepreneurship and firm creation, the role of managers, and knowledge management. - Reproduced. |
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Knowledge management |
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Organization |
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