I develop a theory of knowledge sharing in organizations where coordinated activity requires shared knowledge, and … knowledge sharing is local and costly. Because knowledge sharing is local, knowledge diffuses gradually across an organization …. Because knowledge sharing is costly, diffusion may stall, resulting in inefficiently fragmented knowledge. The theory suggests …

Knowledge-based approaches to the firm offer valuable insights into some of the central issues of governance and … problem of economic organization is reconciling efficiency in knowledge development with efficiency in knowledge application …. The paper extends the knowledge-based view of the firm and knowledge integration approach to organizational capability …

. There is, therefore, a well-documented body of ‘bestpractice’ knowledge that should guide managers when introducing a change … isproduced and subsequently what is constituted as knowledge. For Foucault, ‘truth production’ andthe dynamics of knowledge are … situated in a theory of power. This study responds to Foucault’ssuggestion that knowledge should be re-examined in the change …