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Knowledge Creation

Knowledge Creation

Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781466683181|ISBN10: 146668318X|EISBN13: 9781466683198
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch008
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Constantin Bratianu. "Knowledge Creation." Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation, IGI Global, 2015, pp.180-206. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch008

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C. Bratianu (2015). Knowledge Creation. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch008

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Constantin Bratianu. "Knowledge Creation." In Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch008

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Abstract

The paradox of knowledge creation is the fact that we don't know yet what knowledge is and how to deal with it from the managerial point of view. The Gordian knot of this reality is represented by the nature and understanding of the dynamics between information and knowledge. In the realm of information science and philosophy the concept of information had been introduced by C. E. Shannon as a mathematical construct in order to solve engineering communication problems. In the realm of epistemology and knowledge management, the central concept of another continuum is knowledge. The continuum is defined as the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. Information in this new continuum is not the same as information from the communication theory, and that generates a lot of confusion among researchers and practitioners. The authors present the main ideas of the DIKW hierarchy and of the centrality of knowledge.

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