Beyond commodification of knowledge in IT-mediated organizations : A literature review on knowing – in – practice
Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Tacit knowledge transfer remains a challenge within the field of IS. This literature review therefore choses to view knowledge in a different way: as relational and embodied, where humans as well as non-humans have equal agency over the affordances and constraints related to knowledge. Using a sociomaterial lens, the research findings on tacit knowledge in an organisational environment are explored in answering the research question " How can tacit knowledge be understood from a sociomaterial perspective?" The contributions are that knowledge in white-collar work is surprisingly often embodied and tacit, and that IT has the potential to play a key role in knowledge translation, as a boundary object between networks. This thesis thereby concludes that practice-based knowledge translation is a more fruitful approach in passing on tacit knowledge in organisations, because it takes into account the unpredictable, embodied and site-specific nature of knowing - in – practice.
Author: Freya Johansson
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2474463242