Bad Company? The Ambiguity of Personal Knowledge Networks
Bad Company? The Ambiguity of Personal Knowledge Networks
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糟糕的公司？
DOI：
10.1093/jeg/lbi014
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Oliver Ibert
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作者：
Gernot Grabher;Oliver Ibert
最近关于学习的争论已经将分析的焦点从正式的组织安排转移到非正式的个人关系上。然而，个人知识网络大多被认为是同质的、有凝聚力的、地方性的个人联系。此外，一种功能主义的语气似乎在个人知识网络被视为弥补正式组织的缺点的账户中盛行。本文旨在扩展网络的主流解释，这在很大程度上是由嵌入性的概念塑造的。在对汉堡广告和慕尼黑软件业务的项目生态进行深入实证分析的背景下，本文将首先通过区分连接性、社会性和社区网络，冒险进入被忽视的薄弱、短暂和全球个人知识网络领域。其次，本文不仅阐明了这些关系的支持功能，还探讨了这些个人知识网络所引发的个人利益、项目目标和公司目标之间的紧张关系。牛津大学出版社版权所有。
Recent debates on learning have shifted the analytical focus from formal organizational arrangements to informal personal ties. Personal knowledge networks, though, mostly are perceived as homogenous, cohesive, and local personal ties. Moreover, a functionalist tone seems to prevail in accounts in which personal knowledge networks are seen to compensate the shortcomings of the formal organization. This paper sets out to expand the dominant construal of networks, which is largely molded by the notion of embeddedness. Against the background of in-depth empirical analysis of the project ecologies of the Hamburg advertising and the Munich software business, the paper will first venture into the neglected sphere of thin, ephemeral, and global personal knowledge networks by differentiating between connectivity, sociality, and communality networks. Second, the paper not only elucidates the supportive functions of these ties but also explores the tensions between personal interests, project goals, and the firm's aims that are induced by these personal knowledge networks. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.