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За природата на знанието като динамичен организационен конструкт
About the Nature of Knowledge as a Dynamical Organizational Construction

Author(s): Irina Nikolova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН

Summary/Abstract: Some of the organizational theorists, working in the field of the dynamic theory of the company, recognize the resource-based point of view of the organization as insufficient to fully explain the specific transformation mechanisms in the processes of creating, disseminating and using the knowledge. Applying the concept of the critical realism to the organizational management scope, those theorists consider the dialectic between the field of the real (a field of generative powers) and the field of the empirical (a field of reflections and observations) as the most significant factor providing the inner dynamic processes not only at the level of the whole organization but also at the level of organizational knowledge. Based on the development of the concept about the tacit and explicit knowledge in the organization, Nonaka and Toyama create a new (lquote SECI) dialectic model of the organizational knowledge, which reflects the specific knowledge dynamics. In their attempts to explain the dynamic mechanism of the constant knowledge recreation in the organization some of the theorists emphasize on the fact that such a dialecltic could be derived only by a strong inner contradiction such as the one existing between the li mited capacity of the organizational resources and the constantly expanding requirements of the environment. Providing a comparative overview and analyses of some of the contemporary ideas and dynamic models of the organizational knowledge, this article is striving to achive an understanding of the inner dynamic processes and mechanisms of the creation, dissemination and application of the organizational knowledge.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2005
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 61-65
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Bulgarian