Networking In Organizations: Developing A Social Practice Perspective For Innovation And Knowledge Sharing In Emerging Work Contexts
- 1 April 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in World Futures
- Vol. 62 (3), 171-192
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02604020500509520
Abstract
This article focuses on the micro-level phenomena related to emergent ways of organizing. It explores how new ways of organizing might be enabled or inhibited through the networking activities and knowledge flows that organizational members engage in within a multinational business organization after the set-up of an innovative Internet business unit. The article considers innovation and networking as social practices mediated in this particular case study through knowledge-sharing activities. This perspective on innovation, networking, and knowledge leads to a conceptualization of organizations that stresses their inherent complexity and their interactive and co-evolving nature with their environments.Keywords
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