We have in this paper looked into what forms the knowledge worker in the future both on a corporate level and a societal level. We have interviewed researchers working with these issues in the Swedish telecommunication company Telia and the Norwegian telecommunication company Telenor. These are both companies making their living of understanding the future […]
This paper discusses arts as practice for business and society studies. Given that arts are necessary to develop business and society; how can valuable arts practices be learned? This conceptual paper is investigating how collective knowing develops in business contexts using art by unconventional painters such as Edvard Munch as examples of this process. The […]
The purpose this paper is analysing and comparing all the papers in the proceedings of IFKAD in 2016 (Dresden), 2017, (St. Petersburg) and in 2018 (Delft). The study is classifying the papers according to methodology, analysis, discussion and conclusion regarding their contribution placing them into the four paradigmatic boxes. The approach is to use a […]
A challenge in knowledge intensive firms is to inspire the employees to acquire and use knowledge to achieve strategic intentions without performing top down management. At an empirical level, it has been argued that semantics can be a liberating intellectual force promoting creativity and innovation. The purpose of this paper is to generate knowledge about […]
The purpose this paper is analyzing and comparing all the papers in the proceedings of International forum on knowledge asset dynamics (IFKAD) 11 (Dresden) and 12 (St. Petersburg). The study is classifying them according to methodology, analysis, discussion and conclusion regarding their contribution placing them into the four paradigmatic boxes. The papers presented in Dresden […]
The purpose of this paper is to analyse all the papers in the proceedings of the IFKAD 11 in 2016 and classifying them according to methodology, analysis, discussion and conclusion regarding their contribution placing this into the four representations of knowledge, two typologies of concepts, four paradigmatic classifications and in the concluding framework for knowledge […]
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how collective tacit and explicit knowing develops among project team members. This article is a conceptual paper studying how collective knowing emerges in business contexts using working in project teams as examples. The dynamics of project teams give us a societal meaning of the process of knowing […]
The purpose of this study is to explore how to facilitate for the sharing of high quality knowledge in a virtual global project team context. Consequently, this study presents an overview over selected theories, and enlightened by these theories investigates how the strength of social interaction ties between members in a virtual team affects the […]
This study investigates how the organization of and access to different sources of data, information and knowledge create absorptive capacity that contributes to first/prime mover competitive advantages. It is an explorative single case study (Eisenhardt & Graebner, 2007,29) of a shipping firm delivering services to the offshore oil industry. The study has an ethnographical flavor […]
The purpose of this study is to describe, analyze and understand how a company keep ambidexterity and knowledge dynamics onboard during change and growth through defining, evolving and defending the vision of working smarter, greener and safer. The research questions are: Q1: How does ambidexterity manifest itself at the micro level? Q2: What kinds of […]