The elephant in the room: the applicability of axiomatic approaches to network learning and organisational knowledge

Powell, John Hamer and Swart, Juani 2010. The elephant in the room: the applicability of axiomatic approaches to network learning and organisational knowledge. European Journal of International Management 4 (6) , pp. 621-643. 10.1504/EJIM.2010.035592

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Abstract

Existing network literature focuses at the network rather than knowledge networks, exhibiting an inability to speak of knowledge as a scalable phenomenon. In order to advance understanding of knowledge and learning in networks we present a theoretical framework which addresses how knowledge itself behaves at the network level. First, we discuss a scaling function for knowledge which operates on a concept set, measuring the strength and number of connections between the various constructs therein. Second, we declare a three-tiered framework relating problem-, knowledge- and information-spaces which underwrite the strength of a particular knowledge structure. A case study of a defence project illustrates this. The purpose of this paper is to show how these interrelated ideas bear upon the study of knowledge in networks, particularly in respect of knowledge dispersion, hetero- and homogeneity and upon the study of knowledge as a flow property of generalised social networks.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Epistemetrics ; Homogeneity ; Heterogeneity ; Knowledge networks ; Network learning ; Organisational knowledge ; Defence projects ; Knowledge dispersion ; Social networks ; Organisational learning ; Knowledge management ; Knowledge measures ; Problem spaces ; Knowledge spaces ; Information spaces ; Knowledge structure
Publisher:	Inderscience Publishers
ISSN:	1751-6757
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/21804

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