The Basic Framework

Abstract

The literature of organizational knowledge reveals that companies — including project-based companies — can be regarded as knowledge-intensive systems of knowing (e.g. Newell et al., 2002; Love et al., 2005a). However, in this literature the epistemological assumptions have not been well clarified. The attempts to improve a knowledge-based theory of a company are thus also relevant here because it is assumed that knowledge has an important role to play in project-based companies’ and projects’ knowledge management (Spender, 1996).