Knowledge Integration Across Organizations: How Different Types of Knowledge Suggest Different Practices and Different ‘Integration Trajectories’ [Archive.org URL]

This paper establishes a framework for analyzing knowledge integration across organizations from a corporate standpoint, pinpointing the challenges of a firm wishing to effectively integrate knowledge among its business units to improve its efficiency as a unique firm and its effectiveness through a better competitive positioning. Typical examples are those of a firm whose divisions benefit from better knowledge sharing in specific areas, or of a corporation which formed by acquiring a set of independent, albeit somewhat similar firms. Such situations are not rare in today’s business landscape and, further, more and more they give rise to knowledge integration considerations as the so-called “knowledge economy” progresses.

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