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Did You inscript Your Tacit Knowledge?

Dell’Anno, Davide and Del Giudice, Manlio and Della Peruta, Maria Rosaria (2006) Did You inscript Your Tacit Knowledge? In: The 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference : May 11-13, 2006 + May 10, 2006 Doctoral Workshop, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands., 10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006, Enschede, The Netherlands .

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Event:	The 14th Annual High Technology Small Firms Conference : May 11-13, 2006 + May 10, 2006 Doctoral Workshop, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands., 10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006, Enschede, The Netherlands
Abstract:	The management of knowledge is increasingly considered as a main source of competitive advantage for corporations. It is argued that organizations enjoy a competitive advantage if they know how to expand, disseminate and exploit organizational knowledge internally. Moreover, organizations can achieve their strategic goals by encouraging knowledge sharing, flexibility and adaptation to change. Furthermore our position is that tacit knowledge sharing can lead to knowledge stratification. And that it is likely to lead to encode knowledge in behavioural schemas, apparently similar to organizational routines, but as a matter of fact more complex and refined: the cognitive scripts. Even if apparently similar to organizational routines, the scripts strongly differ from them in terms of power of replication, of inertia degree, of search potential. The present study focuses on the analysis of the script localization in the organization as an important starting point for the understanding of the dynamics of knowledge stratification and encoding. Thus hypothesizing kinds of knowledge re-use within spin off decisions, as well. The plausibility of the mentioned hypotheses are tested by a multivariate statistics approach.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Organizational routine, script, academic spin off, inscription, collective knowledge
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/proceedings/141
Organisation URL:	http://www.utwente.nl/bms/nikos/
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