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Distributed knowledge in the workplace

Connecting 2 the World

Each type of knowledge was manifested, accessed, created, and valued differently at the individual, group, and organizational level. Spatial knowledge is the most valuable for knowledge based organizations. This can be seen in corporations where everyone, yet no one owns the knowledge. Buchanan, R.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

The greater the level of internalization of knowledge, the greater perceived depth of knowledge (Allee, 1999; Herling, 2000; Yaklief, 2010). Information becomes content when there is a situation to apply it (Nonaka, 1999, Yaklief, 2010), but does not require a depth of understanding to access or transfer.

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Knowledge Genres

Connecting 2 the World

Defining Knowledge Genres Genres standardize rituals and rhetoric, influence work patterns, promote particular ways of acting, and set orientation to thinking (Berkendotter & Huckin, 2005; Dias et al., I refer to this structuring of knowledge as knowledge genres. 1999; Nonaka, 1994). linking ideas, putting into context).

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Transactional and Negotiated knowledge

Connecting 2 the World

In order for knowledge to be used as currency, it would need to be of value, accessible by others, identifiable, stable (with clearly defined knowledge boundaries), and available in either a tangible form or tangibly represented. Transactional knowledge could also take the form of work processes.

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Study Findings

Connecting 2 the World

However, with the rise in the use of distributed groups in the workplace, there is the recognition that knowledge that is distributed in the form of distributed cognition, may not be accessed in the same way that traditional organizational structures allowed. Externally owned knowledge (e.g. linking ideas, putting into context).

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