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Knowledge integration - the purposeful combination of specialized
and complementary knowledge to achieve specific tasks - is becoming
increasingly important for organizations facing rapidly changing
institutional environments, globalized markets, and fast-paced
technological developments. The need for knowledge integration is
driven by knowledge specialization and its geographic and
organizational distribution in the global economy. The increasing
complexity and relevance of the knowledge integration problem is
apparent in emerging new fields of research, such as open
innovation, or the merging of existing ones, e.g. organizational
learning and strategy. In global competition, the successful
management of knowledge integration underpins firms' ability to
innovate, generate profit, grow and, ultimately, survive. This book
provides conceptual contributions as well as empirical studies that
examine knowledge integration essentially as a 'boundary' problem.
Knowledge integration becomes a problem when boundaries between
knowledge fields, and the institutions that preside over those
fields, are not clear, or become fluid and contestable. This
fluidity, and the competitive pressures this fluidity generates,
are persistent and permanent features of the world we live in. This
book puts forward a consistent set of ideas, methods and tools
useful to interpret, analyze and act upon the processes of
knowledge integration across boundaries.
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