Minerva Unbound: Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

Building on several international professional meetings of architects organized in Romania or abroad, this article details how various modernist principles, traditionally subsumed to Western European culture, were gradually reinterpreted as an object of policy and professional knowledge on urban space in the second and third world countries. The article analyses the dialogue between Romanian architects and their foreign colleagues. It highlights how these conversations adjusted the hierarchies and power relations between states and hegemonic centres of knowledge production. In this sense, it contributes to the recent research on the means by which the "trans- nationalization of expertise" "transformed various (semi)peripheral states into new centres of knowledge and thus outlines a new analytical space where domestic actions of the Romanian state in the area of urban policies are to be analysed not as isolated practices of a totalitarian regime, but as expressions of the entanglements between industrialization models, knowledge flows and models of territoriality that were not only globally relevant, but they also often received specific regional, national and local forms.

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Developing a Knowledge-Based Organizational Performance Model for Improving Knowledge Flows in Discontinuous Organizations

Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory and Transfer Behavior ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-140-7.ch006 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 89-108

Author(s):

Rahinah Ibrahim ◽

Mark E. Nissen

Keyword(s):

Organizational Performance ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Organization Theory ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Performance Model ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Insight Into

Tacit knowledge attenuates particularly quickly in organizations that experience discontinuous membership: the coming and going of organizational roles or positions during a workflow process. Since knowledge flows enable workflows, and workflows drive performance, theory suggests that dynamic knowledge—particularly tacit knowledge—is critical for competitive advantage. This research seeks to extend established organization theory, through integration of emerging knowledge-flow theory, to inform the design of discontinuous organizations. Toward this end, we build a computational model based upon ethnographic study of an affordable housing project that experienced severe discontinuous membership. Analysis of this model reveals problematic theoretical gaps, and provides insight into how scholarly understanding of knowledge flows can extend organization theory to address discontinuous organizations. This research contributes new knowledge for designing knowledge-based organizations in discontinuous contexts.

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Re-thinking new knowledge production: A literature review and a research agenda

Research Policy ◽

10.1016/j.respol.2008.01.008 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 740-760 ◽

Cited By ~ 333

Author(s):

Laurens K. Hessels ◽

Harro van Lente

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Research Agenda ◽

New Knowledge

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Tradition in Transition: Technology and Change in Archaeological Visualisation Practice

Open Archaeology ◽

10.1515/opar-2020-0218 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1685-1708

Author(s):

Loes Opgenhaffen

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Ceramic Production ◽

The Public ◽

The Past ◽

Technology Changes ◽

Wide Range ◽

New Knowledge ◽

The Impact ◽

Underlying Processes

Abstract Archaeologists are the mediators between fragmented, and often contested, pasts and the momentary present. To record, organise, interpret, and reconstruct complex narratives of the past and to communicate these to present-day peers and the public, they use a wide range of visualisation methods. As such, visualisation methods form an intrinsic part of the representation of practical and intellectual findings, being crucial to knowledge production in archaeology. The adoption and adaptation of digital visualisation technology changes the way archaeologists shape new knowledge. However, for a discipline that is particularly concerned with how technology had an effect on past societies, for example, the impact of the potter’s wheel on local ceramic production strategies, archaeologists have a remarkably limited awareness of how current (digital) technology has an impact on their own visualisation practice and the subsequent knowledge production. This study presents the conceptual framework “tradition in transition,” which integrates technological and visualisation methodologies, and aims to provide a framework to analyse the underlying processes and mechanisms that shape and change the practice of creating visualisations.

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Implementing Open Innovation in Research and Technology Organisations: Approaches and Impact

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc5040091 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 91 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ramon Uribe-Echeberria ◽

Juan Ignacio Igartua ◽

Rafael Lizarralde

Keyword(s):

Open Innovation ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Innovation System ◽

Knowledge Flows ◽

Active Management ◽

Strong Impact ◽

Knowledge Stocks ◽

Knowledge Stocks And Flows ◽

Research Organisations ◽

The Impact

Research and development organisations (RTOs) are at the heart of innovation systems. They help to connect innovation system actors to foster industrial innovation. Due to this intermediary role, they act as paradigmatic open innovation (OI) actors. In this context, RTOs need to balance their knowledge stocks and flows, while assuring their own innovation capabilities and positively impacting the innovation system they influence. Thus, RTOs need to develop collaboration approaches that support their own performance while increasing their capabilities and not threatening their competitive advantages derived from their knowledge stock. In this study we extend the OI research to research organisations analysing their OI approach and the impact on its own performance, developing a new framework for OI study in RTOs using a partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach. The research, based on a sample of Spanish RTOs, arises two substantive conclusions. First, an increased number of collaboration partners (collaboration breadth) and the use of a variety of OI practices have a strong impact on RTOs’ overall performance (scientific, transference, and economic results). Second, RTOs need to foster their aperture and promote an active management to benefit from collaborating partners, whereas managers should pay special attention to questions related to the protection and management of intellectual property when promoting the use of different OI practices. Both results also emphasise the importance of managing firms’ knowledge flows in the implementation of OI in RTOs.

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Glocalised research design: exploring the encounter between Indigenous and Western methodologies among the Maasai Pastoralists in Monduli, Tanzania

AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples ◽

10.1177/11771801211037900 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 117718012110379

Author(s):

Joseph Christopher Pesambili

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Indigenous Research ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Constructing Knowledge ◽

Research Assistants ◽

Epistemological Framework

Drawing upon my experience of researching the encounter between Indigenous and Western knowledge among the Maasai in Monduli, Tanzania, I reflect on theoretical and practical aspects of a glocalised research design as an alternative methodological approach to Indigenous research. I explore how the design is embodied in the Maasai’s concept of enkigúɛ́ná (meeting) both as an ontological and epistemological framework for engaging diverse worldviews and knowledge systems in meaningful ways. The experience from the fieldwork shows that not only does the glocalised design offer possibilities for decolonising research and knowledge production but also it provides a dialogical space for co-constructing knowledge between the researcher, research assistants, and participants. The glocalised design offers new insights into the importance of research at the encounter where two knowledge systems constantly in tension, meet, interrogate, and negotiate with each other through a productive dialogue to enhance mutual understanding and create new knowledge.

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The Analysis of Processes of New Knowledge Production in Key World Regions and Russia

Journal of the Knowledge Economy ◽

10.1007/s13132-016-0424-2 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 1133-1145 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oleg Georgievich Golichenko ◽

Alina Alekseevna Malkova

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

World Regions ◽

New Knowledge

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The corporate curriculum: Schools as sites of new knowledge production

The Australian Educational Researcher ◽

10.1007/bf03219752 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 31-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Daphne Meadmore ◽

Erica McWilliam

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

New Knowledge

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The Japanese Model of Knowledge Management

Foundations of Management ◽

10.2478/fman-2013-0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 7-16

Author(s):

Grażyna Gierszewska

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Organisational Learning ◽

Practical Application ◽

Japanese Management ◽

Formal Knowledge ◽

Seci Model ◽

New Knowledge

Abstract The effectiveness of Japanese management methodologies is making them increasingly popular with business organisations all over the world. This paper aims to present one of the least known knowledge management theories: the knowledge creation model by I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi. In their approach to the theory of organisational learning and knowledge creation, Nonaka and Takeuchi propose a categorisation of knowledge into tacit and explicit (formal) knowledge and explore the relationships between knowledge production, transfer and application; they also address the issue of applying existing and creating new knowledge. Presented SECI model captures the conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge in four steps: Socialisation, Externalisation, Combination and Internalisation. The paper examines case studies that illustrate the practical application of the processes.

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