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- Berggren, Christian, et al.
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Exploring Knowledge Integration and Innovation
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Ingår i: Knowledge integration and innovation. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199693924 - 9780191730580 ; , s. 228-245
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and are continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensifies, firms increasingly need to integrate and co-ordinate knowledge by means of project groups, diversified organizations, inter-organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances. Innovation processes have progressively become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international, and a firm's ability to synthesize knowledge across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations has a major influence on its viability and success.This book demonstrates how knowledge integration is crucial in facilitating innovation within modern firms. It provides original, detailed empirical studies of prerequisites, mechanisms, and outcomes of knowledge integration processes on several organizational levels, from key individuals, projects, and internal organizations, to collaboration between firms. It stresses the need to understand knowledge integration as a multi-level phenomenon, which requires a broad repertoire of organizational and technical means. It further clarifies the need for strong internal capabilities for exploiting external knowledge, reveals how costs of knowledge integration affect outcomes and strategic decisions, and discusses the managerial implications of fostering knowledge integration, providing practical guidance and support for managers of knowledge integration in
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- Söderlund, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Knowledge Integration in a P-form Corporation : Project Epochs in the Evolution of Asea/ABB, 1945-2000
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Ingår i: Knowledge integration and innovation. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780199693924 ; , s. 170-201
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and one continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensifies, firms increasingly need to integrate and co-ordinate knowledge by means of project groups, diversified organizations, inter-organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances. Innovation processes have progressively become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international, and a firm's ability to synthesize knowledge across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations has a major influence on its viability and success.This book demonstrates how knowledge integration is crucial in facilitating innovation within modern firms. This book provides original, detailed empirical studies of prerequisites, mechanisms, and outcomes of knowledge integration processes on several organizational levels, from key individuals, projects, and internal organizations, to collaboration between firms. It stresses the need to understand knowledge integration as a multi-level phenomenon, which requires a broad repertoire of organizational and technical means. It further clarifies the need for strong internal capabilities for exploiting external knowledge, reveals how costs of knowledge integration affect outcomes and strategic decisions, and discusses the managerial implications of fostering knowledge integration, providing practical guidance and support for managers of knowledge integration in high technology enterprises.Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business, Management, and Engineering; policy makers and consultants
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- Söderlund, Jonas, 1971-, et al.
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Participants in the process of knowledge integration
- 2011
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Ingår i: Knowledge integration and innovation. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780199693924 ; , s. 96-121
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Building on the idea of knowledge integration as a process by which several actors (e.g. individuals) combine their uniquely held knowledge to create new knowledge, this chapter presents a study and analysis of knowledge integration at work. The primary focus is on individuals participating in engineering work in collaboration with engineers with whom they have little prior experience of collaborating. To ensure effective knowledge integration in such settings, the involved participants need to master a repertoire of activities and possess necessary skills to be able to heedfully participate in such processes. This chapter, based on in-depth research of consultants at one of Sweden's leading technical consultancies, identifies and theoretically positions five interrelated activities that are critical for knowledge integration at work. The chapter enhances the understanding of knowledge integration at the operational project level and thus seeks to ‘bring work back in’ into the analysis of situated knowledge integration.
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