Governance and Knowledge Exchange Within and Between Epistemic Communities

Governance and Knowledge Exchange Within and Between Epistemic Communities
Author: Lars Håkanson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2004
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ISBN:

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All knowledge is context dependent. The relevant context is the social community where it resides, i.e. the 'epistemic community' formed as groups of people define and legitimize the knowledge they possess. In the mutual engagement in a common enterprise, epistemic communities develop, maintain and nurture the codes, tools and theories that provide the basis of their practice. Commonalities of code, tools and theory facilitate both voluntary transfer and involuntary imitation of knowledge within communities, also ones spanning organizational boundaries. Conversely, knowledge transfer between different epistemic communities, whether desired or unintended, is often cumbersome and fraught with difficulties. In order to achieve effective integration and cooperation between its various professional communities and subcultures, firms must therefore undertake investments in boundary-spanning mechanisms. Since these investments are specific to the context in which they take place and to the transactions that they enable, they cannot easily be organized through arm's length contracts. Firms exist because they have a relative advantage over markets in the integration of diverse knowledge. However, the associated capabilities need not translate into a relative advantage also in the transfer of knowledge, i.e. knowledge exchanged between members of the same epistemic community. Within communities, knowledge disseminates with relative ease both intentionally and through emulation. Knowledge thus acquired can generally be applied also outside the context of the exchange and the effort or investment expended in its acquisition is not transaction specific. The governance mode applied in such exchanges is therefore determined by strategic and contextual factors, including those of traditional transaction cost logic.

Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities

Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities
Author: Elias G. Carayannis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011-11-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1461415519

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Over the past several decades, as the pace of globalization has accelerated, operational issues of international coordination have often been overlooked. For example, the global financial crisis that began in 2007 is attributed, in part, to a lack of regulatory oversight. As a result, supranational organizations, such as the G-20, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, have prioritized strengthening of the international financial architecture and providing opportunities for dialogue on national policies, international co-operation, and international financial institutions. Prevailing characteristics of the global economic systems, such as the increasing power of financial institutions, changes in the structure of global production, decline in the authority of nation-states over their national economy, and creation of global institutional setting, e.g., global governance have created the conditions for a naturally evolving process towards enabling national epistemic communities to create institutions that comply with global rules and regulations can control crises. In this context, transfer of technical knowledge from the larger organizations and its global epistemic communities to member communities is becoming a policy tool to “convince” participants in the international system to have similar ideas about which rules will govern their mutual participation. In the realm of finance and banking regulation, the primary focus is on transfer of specialized and procedural knowledge in technical domains (such as accounting procedures, payment systems, and corporate governance principles), thereby promoting institutional learning at national and local levels. In this volume, the authors provide in-depth analysis of initiatives to demonstrate how this type of knowledge generated at the international organization level, is codified into global standards, and disseminated to members, particularly in the developing world, where the legal and regulatory infrastructure is often lacking. They argue that despite the challenges, when a country intends to join the global system, its institutions and economic structures need to move toward the global norms. In so doing, they shed new light on the dynamics of knowledge transfer, financial regulation, economic development, with particular respect to supporting global standards and avoiding future crises.

Knowing Governance

Knowing Governance
Author: Jan-Peter Voß
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137514507

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Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage?

The Firm as an Epistemic Community

The Firm as an Epistemic Community
Author: Lars Håkanson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2008
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ISBN:

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Based on a social-constructivist conceptualization of knowledge as residing in groups of practitioners, epistemic communities, this paper proposes a new perspective on the knowledge based view of the firm and sketches the outline of a new research agenda. It argues that the cost of governing knowledge processes depends as much on the cognitive background of the exchange partners as on the tacitness of the knowledge. Firms exist because they may form epistemic communities in their own right with enabling and motivational properties superior to those of markets in the governance of knowledge processes across epistemic boundaries. Establishing a firm as an epistemic community requires transaction specific investments that are difficult to realize under market forms of governance.

Knowledge Democracy

Knowledge Democracy
Author: Roel in 't Veld
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3642113818

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Knowledge democracy is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline. Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms of democracy have not yet found an institutional embedding. Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of the game, and a better educated public has broad access to information, selects for itself which types to examine, and ignores media filters. Some citizens have even become "media" themselves. In a time where the political agendas are filled with combatting so-called evils, new designs for the relationships between science, politics and media are needed. This book outlines the challenges entailed in pursuing a vital knowledge democracy.

The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation

The Elgar Companion to Innovation and Knowledge Creation
Author: Harald Bathelt
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 835
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1782548521

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This unique Companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. It draws on multiple perspectives of innovation, knowledge and creativity from economics, geography, history, management, political science and sociology. The Companion brings together leading scholars to reflect upon innovation as a concept (Part I), innovation and institutions (Part II), innovation and creativity (Part III), innovation, networking and communities (Part IV), innovation in permanent spatial settings (Part V), innovation in temporary, virtual and open settings (Part VI), innovation, entrepreneurship and market making (Part VII), and the governance and management of innovation (Part VIII).

Epistemic Governance

Epistemic Governance
Author: Pertti Alasuutari
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030191508

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This book argues that modern governance is performed by actors who seek social change epistemically, by drawing on widespread, public views of reality. Agents of change such as parliamentarians or social movement activists will assess and affect what they believe to be people’s conceptions of what is possible, rational, and desirable. This often means that these key authority figures will invest in credible knowledge production, as well as appeal to individual and group identifications, emotions, and values. Alasuutari and Qadir show how this epistemic governance works in three important arenas of social change: parliaments, which debate laws that constitute the bulk of reforms; international organizations that circulate global norms; and social movements and NGOs. Through their analysis, the authors’ detailed, innovative methodology for discourse analysis indicates the utility of epistemic governance as a new paradigm for research into global social change. This book will be of use to students in upper level degree programs who want to design empirical research into social change as well as researchers in sociology, political science and public policy.

From Austerity to Abundance?

From Austerity to Abundance?
Author: Margaret Stout
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787144666

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This volume explores the ways in which civil society and governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating efforts toward the common good. Increasingly, these collaborative endeavors seek to share power and break down role boundaries in the pursuit of abundant human flourishing, as opposed to cost-saving austerity.

Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management

Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management
Author: Coakes, Elayne
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2005-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1591405580

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"This encyclopedia will give readers insight on how other organizations have tackled the necessary means of sharing knowledge across communities and functions" -- Provided by publisher.

The Governance of Knowledge Exchange

The Governance of Knowledge Exchange
Author: Seyed Sarang Hashemi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2009
Genre: Information resources management
ISBN:

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ABSTRACT : The present study is an inquiry into the institutional environment and its' significance for governance structures that mediated the exchange of knowledge. Despite the fact that transaction-cost economics acknowledges that institutional environment matters, the emphasis on holding it as constant, while choosing the optimal governance structure along the market-hierarchy spectrum, has severely curtailed its analytical scope regarding the institutional influences over the transaction costs and the consequent changes in the optimality of governance structures. This study adopts Islamoglu's (2000) institutional approach to construct a conceptual framework to address the influence of institutional environment over the governance of knowledge exchange. The framework could contribute to the development of novel insights into effective governance of knowledge exchange within or between heterogeneous institutional environments. A number of refutable propositions are developed for empirical scrutiny and further research.