A Distributed Knowledge Approach to Managing Innovation

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  • Dorothy Mary Kirkman University of Houston - Clear Lake

Keywords:

Sustainability, Innovation, Business

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how organizations can manage innovation in a distributed environment where knowledge emerges from connections between actors and is never complete. Although this might may appear to be a daunting task, managing innovation in a distributed knowledge system is possible using the brain as a metaphor along with connectionist architecture. Integrating these two approaches improve innovation by enabling managers to model an organization's knowledge management strategies to contain brain-like connections that include redundancy and requisite variety, communications, and a decentralized control structure. These factors support knowledge transfer, trust, and heedful relationships among geographically and cognitively (functionally) distributed employees

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Published

2016-05-01

How to Cite

Kirkman, D. M. (2016). A Distributed Knowledge Approach to Managing Innovation. Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 11(1). Retrieved from https://articlegateway.com/index.php/JSIS/article/view/809

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