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Practice-Based Knowledge Integration

Practice-Based Knowledge Integration

Glenn Munkvold
Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 7
ISBN13: 9781591405733|ISBN10: 1591405734|EISBN13: 9781591405740
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-573-3.ch100
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Munkvold, Glenn. "Practice-Based Knowledge Integration." Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, edited by David Schwartz, IGI Global, 2006, pp. 762-768. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-573-3.ch100

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Munkvold, G. (2006). Practice-Based Knowledge Integration. In D. Schwartz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management (pp. 762-768). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-573-3.ch100

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Munkvold, Glenn. "Practice-Based Knowledge Integration." In Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, edited by David Schwartz, 762-768. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-573-3.ch100

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Abstract

For organisations, the tension between integration and specialisation has become a key issue as the knowledge of work is becoming increasingly fragmented through specialisation (Becker, 2002; Grant, 1996; Kogut & Zander, 1992). Specialisation, as knowing more about less, distributes the overall accomplishment of work on several entities (Aanestad, Mørk, Grisot, Hanseth, & Syvertsen, 2003; Becker; Berg, 1997; Hutchins, 1995) with the consequent need for the integration of different competencies and types of expertise. Becker (p. 3) provides the following definition of knowledge integration:

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