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- Title:
Sharing Knowledge at a Distance: Obstacles and Facilitators
- Document type:
- Nicht veröffentlichter Vortrag
- Author(s):
- Doz, Yves; Ambos, Tina; Chacar, Aya; Hutzschenreuter, Thomas
- Event:
- Annual Conference, Istanbul
- Organization:
- Academy of International Business
- Year:
- 2013
- Notes:
- Despite all the extensive research work on knowledge creation and sharing over the past decades the issue of sharing complex knowledge at a distance remains unresolved, or at least imperfectly settled. Most scholars, us included, argue that the very nature of complex knowledge (tacit, collective, context-dependent) rules out the possibility of sharing such knowledge at a distance. The socially situated nature of complex knowledge, and the fact that it can only be revealed and shown through co-practice in action, in particular perhaps infrequent circumstances (e.g., in unexpected crisis situations where explicit emergency procedures no longer apply) and locations (specific sites where action takes place) make sharing impossible. The “here, together, now” constraint applies. Although there is considerable support for that view, both theoretical and empirical, we propose to test its limits in the panel, by considering facilitators and obstacles to the sharing across distance, be it geographic, cultural, or other institutional distance type. The panellists will share their views in a Q&A session that is based on their own knowledge and research in this area.
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