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Justification in Knowledge Creation: Dominant Logic in Management Discourses

  • Georg von Krogh
  • Simon Grand
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Abstract

Current scientific debates as well as management discussions are characterized by an important shift of attention towards knowledge issues as a major source of corporate success. A decade ago, one seldom heard knowledge-orientated terms like ‘implicit knowledge’, ‘dynamic capabilities’ and ‘organizational competences’, ‘intangible assets’ and ‘organizational learning’. Today, a discussion on almost any topic eventually turns into a knowledge issue (Spender and Grant, 1996).

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Justification Procedure Knowledge Creation Implicit Theory Strategic Management Journal Justification Process 
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