1. Matching Communities and Hierarchies within the Firm
- Author
-
Eric Schenk, Patrick Cohendet, Morad Diani, Frédéric Créplet, and Olivier Dupouët
- Subjects
Typology ,Dialectic ,Matching (statistics) ,Knowledge management ,ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION ,business.industry ,Coherence (statistics) ,Organizational knowledge ,Management ,Cognitive dimensions of notations ,Knowledge creation ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,business - Abstract
This article, which draws on recent literature on organizational communities, raises the question of the coherence of the firm through the analysis of the dialectic interaction between hierarchies and Knowledge-Intensive Communities (KnICs) within the firm. Focusing on the cognitive dimension of the firm, we analyze the matching between hierarchies and KnICs and draw conclusions as to the coherence of the firm. Using two key elements (the frequency of interactions and the intensity of communication between communities), we draw a typology allowing a better understanding of the processes of coordination and knowledge creation within the firm.
- Published
- 2004
- Full Text
- View/download PDF