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Practice-Based Knowledge Integration

Practice-Based Knowledge Integration

Glenn Munkvold
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
ISBN13: 9781599049335|ISBN10: 1599049333|EISBN13: 9781599049342
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch021
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Munkvold, Glenn. "Practice-Based Knowledge Integration." Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Murray E. Jennex, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 241-249. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch021

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Munkvold, G. (2008). Practice-Based Knowledge Integration. In M. Jennex (Ed.), Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 241-249). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch021

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Munkvold, Glenn. "Practice-Based Knowledge Integration." In Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Murray E. Jennex, 241-249. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch021

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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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