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- Title
Managing Trade-offs and Tensions between Knowledge Management Initiatives and Expertise Development Practices.
- Authors
Oshri, Ilan; Pan, Shan L.; Newell, Sue
- Abstract
This article explores the trade-offs and tensions between knowledge management initiatives and expertise development practices. While studies of knowledge management and expertise development are abundant, there is no research that has addressed the inter-relationships between these two organizational practices. This article, therefore, addresses the following question: How does the introduction and implementation of a knowledge management initiative affect the development of engineer's expertise within a firm? An in-depth case study of a company introducing new practices to promote knowledge transfer between projects in a fast-changing project environment is analysed. Based on the findings, we conclude that the introduced knowledge transfer initiative has upset the past harmony between expertise development and knowledge management practices.
- Subjects
KNOWLEDGE management; EXPERTISE; INDUSTRIAL management; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; INDUSTRIAL sociology; MANAGEMENT science; CORPORATE culture; MANAGEMENT styles; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology
- Publication
Management Learning, 2006, Vol 37, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1350507606060982