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- Title
Knowledge sharing in a dispersed network of HR practice: Zooming in on power/knowledge struggles.
- Authors
Heizmann, Helena
- Abstract
The practice-based view of knowledge is recognized as an important epistemological perspective in the knowledge management literature. However, there is also a growing awareness that approaches adopting this view do not always consider issues of power. This article draws on Foucault’s conceptual lens of power/ knowledge and discursive positioning theory to gain a better understanding of how and why practitioners contest, accept, and/or further each other’s knowledge. The article applies its theoretical framework to examine knowledge sharing in a dispersed network of HR practice. The empirical example illustrates how organizational power/knowledge struggles affect dynamics of participation in networks of practice and generate knowledge sharing issues between geographically dispersed practitioners. Based on the study’s findings and analysis, the article promotes a power-sensitive view of organizational knowledge sharing that recognizes the discursively constructed nature of relationships within networks of practice.
- Subjects
KNOWLEDGE transfer; PERSONNEL management; THEORY of knowledge; KNOWLEDGE management; AWARENESS
- Publication
Management Learning, 2011, Vol 42, Issue 4, p379
- ISSN
1350-5076
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1350507610394409