Starting from the assumption that innovations emerge from a combination of different types of knowledge and are the … result of collective efforts, this dissertation examines the social process through which knowledge obtained from outside an … external knowledge are equally important to promote individual innovativeness. However, the study finds that knowledge acquired …

literature. Specifically, we suggest that characteristics of the knowledge contained in a firm's inter-organizational network and … circulating among members. Characteristics of a firm's direct contacts describe its knowledge embeddedness and determine its … access to more fine-grained (tacit, complex) knowledge. We propose that the context (e.g. the difficulty of learning from …

This paper surveys the literature and develops a framework for research into the integration of distributed knowledge … work (DKW). Knowledge work is considered to be “distributed” whenever key decisions for execution of the project cut across … recent years is well documented. Nonetheless, research into maintaining the coherence of a distributed knowledge work project …