Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries -

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Résumé :
Knowledge integration - the purposeful combination of specialized and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks - is becoming increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced technological developments. The need for knowledge integration is driven by knowledge specialization and its geographic and organizational distribution in the global economy. The increasing complexity and relevance of the knowledge integration problem is apparent in emerging new fields of research, such as open innovation, or the merging of existing ones, e.g. organizational learning and strategy. In global competition, the successful management of knowledge integration underpins firms' ability to innovate, generate profit, grow and, ultimately, survive. This book provides conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies that examine knowledge integration essentially as a 'boundary' problem. Knowledge integration becomes a problem when boundaries between knowledge fields, and the institutions that preside over those fields, are not clear, or become fluid and contestable. This fluidity, and the competitive pressures this fluidity generates, are persistent and permanent features of the world we live in. This book put forward a consistent set of ideas, methods and tools useful to interpret, analyze and act upon the processes of knowledge integration across boundaries....

Biographie:

• 1: Fredrik Tell, Christian Berggren, Stefano Brusoni, and Andrew Van de Ven: Introduction: Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries


• Part I: Conceptual Underpinnings


• 2: Fredrik Tell: Managing Across Knowledge Boundaries


• 3: Steven Postrel: Effective Management Of Collective Design Processes: Knowledge Profiles and the Sequential Ordering of Tasks


• 4: Christian Berggren, J??rg Sydow, and Fredrik Tell: Relating Knowledge Integration and Absorptive Capacity: Knowledge Boundaries And Reflective Agency in Path-Dependent Processes


• 5: Lars Lindkvist and Marie Bengtsson: Bridging the Individual-To-Organization Divide: A Knowledge Creation Approach


• Part II: Boundary Crossing Knowledge Integration in Context


• 6: Lars Bengtsson, Nicolette Lakemond, Keld Laursen, and Fredrik Tell: Open Innovation: Managing Knowledge Integration Across Multiple Boundaries


• 7: Federica Ceci and Andrea Prencipe: Division of Labour, Supplier Relationships and Knowledge Integration


• 8: Fabrizio Castelluci and Gianluca Carnabuci: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and the Boundaries of the Firm: Evidence from a Study of Formula One Racing Constructors, 1950-2000


• 9: Solmaz Filiz Karabag and Christian Berggren: Struggling with Knowledge Boundaries and Stickiness: Case Studies of Innovating Firms in an Emerging Economy


• 10: Markus Perkmann: How Boundary Organizations Facilitate Collaboration Across Diverse Communities


• 11: Dmitrijs Kravcenko and Jacky Swan: Talking Through Objects: The Socio-Political Dynamics Embodied in Boundary Objects in Architectural Work


• 12: Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Kwanghui Lim and Pek-hooi Soh: Bridging Scientists And Informal RandD Collaborations: Implications for Firm-Level Knowledge Integration and Patent Performance


• 13: Karin Bredin, Cecilia Enberg, Camilla Niss and Jonas S??derlund: Knowledge Integration at Work: Individual Project Competence in Agile Projects


• 14: Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa and Yongsuk Kim: Retrieval of Knowledge Across Team Boundaries: Role of Transactive Memory Systems in a Restructuring Global Organization


• 15: Andrew H. Van de Ven and Shaker A. Zahra: Boundary Spanning, Boundary Objects, and Innovation