Knowledge Governance and its Effects on Knowledge Mobilization

组织在需要的时间和地点调动知识的能力是组织绩效的基础。如果有效地完成，这种能力可以帮助组织减少重复的错误，传播创新和最佳实践，并避免将资源用于以前已经解决的问题。迄今为止，已经提出并实施了各种管理知识的组织机制，但它们对知识动员的影响有限且各不相同。因此，迫切需要更好地了解如何管理知识并在整个组织中实现知识动员。知识治理关注的是组织机制的部署如何影响知识过程，即知识的创造、保留和共享。传统上，知识在组织中是通过社会和控制机制，通过实践社区（cop）和分层报告结构的实现来管理的。除了这些传统机制之外，本研究还将分析在跨国工程组织中创建一种新的知识治理形式——知识市场，知识在其中被创造、定价和内部销售。因此，本研究从制度理论、交易成本经济学和企业知识基础观点出发，分析了内部知识市场的设计与演化；（ii）通过内部知识市场和传统实践社区对知识治理进行比较和对比；（三）分析不同形式的治理如何影响知识动员。本研究有望在组织内部知识治理理论的基础上进行扩展。具体而言，本研究通过分析一种新的知识治理形式（即内部知识市场），将市场机制引入组织内分析。此外，本研究将创建一个理论框架，用于分析和比较不同形式的知识治理（例如，集中式方法、cop与内部知识市场），并确定这些治理策略对组织内部知识创造、更新和覆盖的影响。更广泛的影响这项研究将参与整个数据收集和分析过程，以验证和完善我们的发现。关于如何创建有效的内部知识市场以及不同的治理形式如何影响知识动员的工具包和最佳实践指南将被创建并传播到组织中。此外，本研究还将为大学教学创建一个课程模块。总体而言，本研究旨在通过实施更有效的知识治理机制，帮助知识密集型组织（如知识工作者分布全球的工程组织）调动知识以提高生产力和绩效。

The ability of an organization to mobilize knowledge when and where it is needed is fundamental for organizational performance. When done effectively, this ability can help organizations reduce repeated mistakes, spread innovation and best practices, and avoid dedicating resources to problems that have been solved previously. To date, various organizational mechanisms to govern knowledge have been proposed and implemented, yet they have had limited and varying effects on knowledge mobilization. Thus, there is a pressing need to better understand how to govern knowledge and effect knowledge mobilization across the entire organization.Knowledge governance is concerned with how the deployment of organizational mechanisms influences knowledge processes, i.e., the creation, retention, and sharing of knowledge. Traditionally, knowledge is governed in organizations through social and control mechanisms through the implementation of Communities of Practice (CoPs) and hierarchical reporting structures. In addition to these traditional mechanisms, this research will analyze the creation of a new form of knowledge governance - a knowledge market, where knowledge is created, priced and sold internally - within a multinational engineering organization. Thus, this research builds from institutional theory, transaction cost economics and the knowledge-based view of the firm to (i) analyze the design and evolvement of an internal knowledge market; (ii) compare and contrast the governance of knowledge through internal knowledge markets and traditional Communities of Practice; and (iii) analyze how different forms of governance affect knowledge mobilization. Intellectual Merit This research is expected to expand upon theories of intra-organizational knowledge governance. Specifically, by analyzing a new form of knowledge governance (i.e., internal knowledge markets), this research introduces market mechanisms into intra-organizational analysis. In addition, this research will create a theoretical framework for analyzing and comparing different forms of knowledge governance (e.g., centralized approaches vs. CoPs vs. internal knowledge markets) and determining the effects of these governance strategies on knowledge creation, renewal, reach within an organization.Broader ImpactsThis research will engage industry throughout the data collection and analysis process to validate and refine our findings. A toolkit and best practice guide on how to create an effective internal knowledge market and how different governance forms affect knowledge mobilization will be created and disseminated to organizations. In addition, a course module will be created from this research for teaching in Universities. Overall, the research aims to aid knowledge intensive organizations, such as engineering organizations with globally distributed knowledge workers, in their mobilization of knowledge to increase productivity and improve performance through the implementation of more efficient knowledge governance mechanisms.