Knowledge as a shared commodity in the 21 century networked organisation: Trust and power as prefects
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چکیده
This paper examines critically organisations’ focus on resource-based partnering strategies and their attempts to capitalise on shared knowledge for competitive advantage. We argue that the commodification of knowledge rather than information is a key feature of modern collaboration, and its success is subject to the governance mechanisms of trust and power as they act to facilitate or constrain knowledge sharing and utilisation within the virtual network. This paper opens with an overview of the shift towards our modern knowledge-based, network economy . It explains the importance of knowledge as a commodity for value exchange and reviews the concepts of trust and power and their enforcement role in this process. It concludes with a discussion on how organisations can provide the appropriate infrastructure and climate to encourage cooperative integrity and inter-organisational learning.
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